For years, Erica Fink passed by the ho-hum brown fence near her northeast Ann Arbor home that stretches for 1000 feet along Huron Parkway between Nixon and Plymouth road. Then she had a bright idea.

Erica Fink, a sophomore in the school of Art and Design, grew up near what her mother called “a big, ugly, brown, wooden fence.” Fink didn’t see it that way, though. She saw the fence between Nixon ...

Walls and fences represent to most what poet Robert Frost described as barriers separating people in a community: “Good fences make good neighbors.” But for the creative expression of a young artist ...