The San Juan Island Artists Studio Tour…this weekend!

Many of the studios have more than one presentation - this year, painter Ann Walbert welcomes woodworking artist Keith Keyser at her studio.

This coming weekend is one of the island events I like the most – the San Juan Island Artists Studio Tour. It’s almost impossible to get around to all 19 studios, but it’s sure easy to work a few into your busy weekend…after all, there’s nowhere on the island you’re going where you won’t pass a studio that’s on the map.

Here’s what’s great about it: Whether you’re a casual art fan (like me) or a real, in-depth art connoisseur who goes to all the openings in town throughout the year, with the Tour you get an easy, comfortable & warm chance to meet the people who make the pieces, and to find out how they do the magic that they do. It’s their chance to shine, and welcome you into their creative space for a while…my friends, this is a chance not to be missed.

Click on the map for details & studio info...

In every place that Josie & I visited on last year’s Tour, the passion of the different artists shone through as they showed us their new work, explained how they do it, and helped us find the next place on the Tour (and usually had cookies, too!) One of the folks I ran into at a studio on the west side said, “I thought I knew the island till now…and I guess I did, because I knew where the stores & the whales & the hiking is. Now I feel like I’ve found its soul.”

It’ll touch yours. See you on the Tour.

Here’s the Studio Tour’s website – this is the twentieth year of a great island tradition – print out the map & have a great weekend!

Drop by Paula West's pottery studio to see what she's been working on lately....

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