Art Studio Tour in N Seattle
Please note: Our tour committee decided to take 2020 off. Our next tour will take place in 2021.
Visit artist studios hosting guest artists and artisans. View artwork and crafts. Chat with artists and learn more about the the creative process!
Call for Working Artists & Artist Studios to participate in the tour
Apply to participate in the 2019 tour, Oct. 12th & 13th.
For 2019 tour we will be using EntryThingy for applications and to collect artists images.
Who can apply? Artists who have an art studio within the boundaries and working artists who’d like to be a guest artist at a studio on the tour. Artists/artisans who live outside the boundaries can particpate in the tour. The application deadline for all studios and guests is June 15th. The studio fee of $TBD and 4 images per artist/artisan is due with the application in EntryThingy. New studios confirm your guest artists by June 30th, along with 4 images for each guest artisan/artisan you will host.
Boundaries: 95th (S) to145th (N), Puget Sound (W) to Lake WA (E)
*Studio fee of $TBD to be split between studio and guest artists. Payable to Desiree Smith, 11755 Corliss Ave N, Seattle, 98133
History:
The Arts North Studio Tour was conceived by Desiree and Larry Smith in 2007. The Smiths generated a number of art events in N. Seattle via the Haller Lake Arts Council, a non-profit organization established by the couple. The vision for the tour were dormant for a time, but happily, renewed energy surfaced in June of 2014, when a steering committee of four artists assembled to organize the tour. Our first tour was September of 2015.
Mission statement:
In 2014 four artists caught the vision to organize a studio tour, a two day annual event. The purpose of the tour was to invite the public into artists’ home studios, to start creative conversations, and to give artists a local event where they could have a comfortable place to show and sell their work. Staying within tight community boundaries and using the KISS method (Keep it Simple Sweetheart), we organize and promote the tour using grassroots word of mouth, social media and simple distribution of inexpensive media, keeping the costs reasonable for all. Each participating studio owner decides on the personality they want to project by choosing suitable guest artists and promoting their own studio as well as the overall tour.
Administration & Brochure, Website Design & Maintenance: Lynette Hensley
Print & Social Media Relations, Logo & Signage Design: Desiree Smith
Signage Production & Coordination: Leon White
“Facebook Marketing for Small Businesses” with Nathan Latka (dvds of this course my be borrowed through ANST by contacting Nancy Cubbage)
