SF Open Studios is free, self-guided and takes place every weekend October 1 30, 2011 from 11 am to 6 pm. Each weekend features artists in different neighborhoods. Weekend 3 (October 15 &16) highlights SOMA (south of Market), the Tenderloin, Potrero Hill and Bayview.
"SF Open Studios absolutely epitomizes the breadth, depth, and diversity of the city itself," says ArtSpan Executive Director Heather Holt Villyard. "There¹s no other event that illuminates the abundance and vibrancy of San Francisco¹s arts and culture in the same way."
SOMA Artists Studios at Bryant at 5th have 35+ artists showing everything from puppets to pottery to painting. *
689 BRYANT ST @ 5th ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA
The studios are easy to get to by walking, bicycling or by public transportation. All featured studios are close to the CalTrain station and only a few blocks from Market St. BART stations. Several MUNI bus routes run to the neighborhood including the 9, 10, 12, 15, 27, 30, 45, 47 and metro lines N and T. Nearby street parking is available.
SATURDAY ONLY RIDE the SOMA BUS!
October 15th, 12-5pm
Download the bus map here: http://www.somac-sf.org/free-open-studios-bus.html
Other venues include up and coming micro neighborhood Dogpatch is home to 3 Fish Studios, the artistic home of Eric Rewitzer and Annie Galvin, husband and wife painters and printmakers, who have garnered enthusiastic interest in their quirky and affordable hand carved relief prints from publications including Dwell and Sunset.
Photographer Ron Saunders is one of several artists who will be showing out of the historic Bayview Opera House. Saunders makes exquisite photograms, photographs made in a 19th century process without a camera. Hamburg-born Kay Weber, an extraordinary paper cut artist, displays his work at the Tenderloin Boys and Girls Club where he teaches art to local immmigrant youth.
A free public reception will be held at SOMArts on Saturday, October 15, 2011 in conjunction with this weekend.
*I will be showing this weekend as well. Here are links to my Flickr account with some images of my art work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49938734@N06/
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