{"id":11978,"date":"2025-07-30T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:17:14","slug":"arte-en-el-centro-comercial-de-la-universidad-de-toledo-utoledos-art-on-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/arte-en-el-centro-comercial-de-la-universidad-de-toledo-utoledos-art-on-the-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Arte en el Centro Comercial de la Universidad de Toledo \/ UToledo\u2019s Art on the Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>UToledo\u2019s Art on the Mall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, July 27, 2025
\n<\/strong>By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

UToledo\u2019s Art on the Mall event this year took place on Sunday, July 27, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is an \u201cannual outdoor juried art fair\u201d that has been celebrated in the center of The University of Toledo\u2019s main campus, known as the \u201cmall\u201d area, according to their website, since 1992. It has free parking and no entrance fee, and I personally have attended this event since 1994, when I was completing my bachelor\u2019s degree there. This event has always been filled with people, food, the smell of kettle corn, music all around, children running around in the grassy area, tons of art, art done by youth and adults, jewelry made of glass, metals, wood, crafts, photography, clothing, everyday items, and community resource tables. This year\u2019s event, and I know that I arrived at 2 p.m., was just not the same. I mean, it was the same in terms of having vendors and food trucks, but not the same in energy, smell, feel, or even in clientele, and it had no children running around in the grassy areas. It did have, which I loved, a protest march that went down the middle of the art fair with people chanting and holding signs up that advocated for ending \u201cU.S. Aid for War Crimes,\u201d to \u201cEnd U.S.-Israeli GENOCIDE,\u201d to \u201cSTOP THE GENOCIDE ON GAZA NOW,\u201d and advocating for kids to be in school \u201cNOT GRAVES\u201d (see photos). When I arrived at the event, I also noticed a diversity in vendors, music, and food trucks, but not in visitors, as I have witnessed in the past. The vendors that were there, however, were of top quality and ranged from woodworking (as seen in the photo) by Tony\u2019s Creative Carvings, to the Latina jewelry artist, Sarah Speer of Artfelt Studios (in photo), and Paul Lyon of LyonArt with his beautiful paintings (in photo), to even Rick Flores (in photo) playing the acoustic guitar. Sadly, however, the people in attendance were missing. Hopefully next year things at the university improve.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Arte en el Centro Comercial de la Universidad de Toledo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Domingo, 27 de julio de 2025
\n<\/strong>Por la Dra. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

El evento “Arte en el Mall” de la Universidad de Toledo este a\u00f1o se llev\u00f3 a cabo el domingo 27 de julio de 2025, de 10:00 a.m. a 4:00 p.m. Este evento anual se trata de una feria de arte jurado, al aire libre, que se celebra desde 1992, seg\u00fan su sitio web, en el centro del campus principal de la Universidad de Toledo conocida como el “mall.\u201d El estacionamiento y la entrada son gratuitos, y yo personalmente he asistido este evento desde 1994, cuando estaba completando mis estudios hay. Este evento siempre ha estado lleno de gente, comida, el aroma de las palomitas de ma\u00edz, m\u00fasica, ni\u00f1os corriendo, much\u00edsimo arte, arte realizado por j\u00f3venes y adultos, joyer\u00eda de vidrio, metales, madera, artesan\u00edas, fotograf\u00eda, ropa, art\u00edculos de uso diario y mesas de recursos comunitarios. El evento de este a\u00f1o, y s\u00e9 que llegu\u00e9 a las 2 p.m., simplemente no fue lo mismo. Es decir, era igual en vendedores y food trucks, pero no en energ\u00eda, olor, ambiente, ni siquiera en clientela, y no hab\u00eda ni\u00f1os corriendo en el zacate (c\u00e9sped o pasto). S\u00ed tuvo, lo cual me encant\u00f3, una marcha de protesta que recorri\u00f3 el centro de la feria de arte con gente coreando y sosteniendo carteles que abogaban por el fin de la “Ayuda de EE. UU. Para Cr\u00edmenes De Guerra,” para “Acabar Con el Genocidio Entre EE. UU. e Israel,” para “ACABAR CON EL GENOCIDIO EN GAZA YA,” y “NO A LAS TUMBAS y SI por los ni\u00f1os y las escuela” (ver fotos). Cuando llegu\u00e9 al evento, tambi\u00e9n not\u00e9 diversidad en vendedores, m\u00fasica y food trucks, pero no en visitantes, como he visto en el pasado. Sin embargo, los vendedores que asistieron fueron de primera calidad e incluyeron desde trabajos de carpinter\u00eda (como se ve en la foto) de Tony’s Creative Carvings, hasta la artista latina de joyer\u00eda Sarah Speer de Artfelt Studios (en la foto), Paul Lyon de LyonArt con sus hermosas pinturas (en la foto), e incluso Rick Flores (en la foto) tocando la guitarra ac\u00fastica. Lamentablemente, no hubo m\u00e1s gente (asistentes). Esperemos que el pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o la situaci\u00f3n en la universidad mejore.<\/p>\n

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