davis_square | What? Somerville Open Studios already? (Reply)

Hi All,

Somerville Open Studios is having a series of informal meetings over the summer to talk about SOS, how it runs and to discuss ideas for next year. If you're an SOS artist, hopefully you've already gotten email about these.

We would be thrilled if fans of and visitors to Open Studios wanted to come and participate in these discussions!

We spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to best serve our visitors, how to best reach people, what format the maps should be, etc., etc., but for the most part we're the ones who are in our studios the whole time! We would love to hear from people who visit studio and hear what you want. (Which is not to chase artists away! Please, we need you, of course, too!)

The first meeting is Tuesday, June 19, 7:30 - 9pm, hosted by our friends at Washington Street Art Center. We'll be talking "big picture" questions—Event Structure, Special Events etc. In July we'll talk about Publicity and Publications (including the mapbook) and in August about Community Space and Home Studios.

If you want more info, or to get on the SOS mailing list to make sure you don't miss any other events, you can do that from our website, www.somervilleopenstudios.org. You don't have to be an artist to sign up; we have a list specifically for interested community members, too.

thanks everyone!