Tickets to the 20th annual Santa Barbara Studio Artists’ Open Studios Tour over Labor Day weekend are now available online at www.santabarbarastudioartists.com.
The three-day tour kicks off with a free, opening night reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, at the Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. Artists’ studios will be open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 4-5; and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 6.
Tickets are $25; children under age 12 are free to attend. Tickets, tour maps, and a preview of the tour will also be available at the Community Arts Workshop over Labor Day weekend. This year’s beneficiary is the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County.
This year’s tour includes access to the studios of 28 artists working in oils, watercolors, acrylics, clay, encaustics, and assemblages. Featured artists include Pamela Benham, abstract paintings; Lisa Crane, ceramics; Karen Fedderson, California landscape paintings; Rick Garcia, landscape and botanical paintings; Pamela Larsson-Toscher, surreal and dreamscape paintings; and Susan Tibbles, assemblages, encaustics, and oils.
Participating artists also include Danuta Bennett, Wendy Brewer, Benjamin Brode, Kris Buck, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Cheryl Doty, Angela Ferraro, Peggy Ferris, Peggy Fletcher, Rosemarie Gebhart, Kevin Gleason, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Jane Hurd, Cynthia Martin, Karen McLean-McGaw, Marilyn McRae, Kimberly Pratt, Rob Robinson, Francis Scorzelli, Kerrie Smith, Susan Tortorici, and Dorene White.
For more about Santa Barbara Studio Artists or this year’s Open Studio Tour, call 805-280-9178 or visit www.SantaBarbaraStudioArtists.com.
Santa Barbara Studio Artists is a not-for-profit trade organization of professionals who maintain working studios in Santa Barbara. Members are selected for the quality of their work and exhibit history. One purpose of Santa Barbara Studio Artists is to increase the audience for individual artists, and promote awareness of Santa Barbara as an art destination.