SOMA Living November 2021

STUDIO TOUR

The annual South Orange Maplewood Artists Studio Tour, presented by ArtSOMA: The Artist Community of South Orange & Maplewood, NJ, will be held on November 6 and 7, from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, like it has for the past 18 years.

But this year, it almost didn’t happen.

In the past, the town of South Orange sponsored the tour under the direction of the Director of Cultural Arts who organized volunteers, worked with the two towns to identify venues for artists who didn’t want to show in their homes, identified funders and many other day to day activities involved in making an event like this happen. But when the Baird closed, that position was eliminated and the artists were left leaderless. So the artists reached out to their friends and networks with a request for volunteers. Artists in South Orange and Maplewood come together every year to open their studios to visitors, friends, collectors and anyone curious about how people in the visual arts make their work. Artists may be emerging, mid-career or established, and create in all kinds of media. The Tour, now in its 18th year, typically features more than 70 artists showing work in their home studios and public venues. Like last year, this year’s event is the “Covid-edition” meaning artists will once again choose how to share their art: some will display their work outside, some will schedule Zoom tours from their studios, some will welcome masked, socially distanced visitors (mostly via appointment), and others will have work on display at local businesses.

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