MISSION STATEMENT
We provide member mentors and classes in those and related areas, such as, the business of art, stress management, addressing creative blocks and distractions, money management, organizational strategies, guest artists and speakers for inspiration and entertainment. The Open Studio offers workshops and retreats for members and guests and both indoor and outdoor display areas for member creations.
We support reducing our carbon footprint upon the earth and sustainable practices that protect or rebuild our natural environment and will operate from these principles by offering programs in sustainable and organic gardening and raising member awareness through recycling and reuse practices, organic maintenance programs for buildings and surrounding grounds, examples of xeroscopic and native landscaping and organic gardens on site and member agreements to promote and support these principles.
The Open Studio will not be limited to these activities but will remain open to changing to meet the needs of our community through any offerings compatible with it’s mission statement and allowed by law.
The Open Studio is two things. First and foremost, it is a facility that is meant to serve our community. We want you to be able to come here and find something that interests or excites you in some way. If you don't, let us know, and we'll try to add it. We are a place where you can offer what interests or excites you to others. We are a place of exchanging skills and interests, where people can meet, share, perhaps ask questions and get answers about how to do or change something in their life or test out the reception to a new idea or small business. We are not-for-profit and totally volunteer.....so it's everyone's place and you can be involved as much as you want.
Secondly, it is a work in progress. We will never "be done". The facility itself has the potential to be much more than it is now and programming can be endless, including longer workshops and retreats. If we run out of room, we'll find more. We need to begin writing grants and doing fundraisers. We have offers from other groups in town to collaborate on events. But to do any of those things, we need help. So, please, join us. If you have a skill or a bit of time that can help us keep moving forward, don't be shy. The Open Studio needs you. We also need donations of every sort, so please think of us.
Open House Series: Second Saturdays at The Open Studio
Second Saturday events happen at the Open Studio at 3pm starting with
demonstrations, meet the artists and instructors, art/plant sale.
Potluck, Music and Firepit at 5pm after open house.
Free and open to everyone.
