Artists Studio Tour 2025

An opportunity
​for artists to network.
Meet other artists, collectors, and other potential clients/buyers.

Artists Studio Tours gives artists the opportunity to share their artwork, meet collectors face-to-face, develop relationships with new customers, make sales, secure commissions and share their artistic process and vision with visitors. It's a chance to let others to meet you and see your art in a personal setting.

Put your art on the map!

We provide the marketing for this event, with a high-quality printed brochure with maps, press releases, social media posts on Facebook and Instagram.
 
Benefits to participating artists:

• Inclusion of one photo of your artwork with your name, address and website in a full-color printed brochure with a map of the event. The CCAC mails brochures to about 300 people. Each artist gets 10 brochures for distribution. Please contact the CCAC if you need more brochures.
• Inclusion of one artwork photo on the CCAC website with a link to your artist website or social media page for nine months.
• Inclusion in our print and social media campaign, including Facebook and Instagram
• Press releases made available to local and out-of-area news outlets 
• Posters to be hung around the Motherlode.
• Large pink signs with arrows to help guide visitors to your studio on the weekend of the tour.

Where to host 
​Artists Studio Tours

You may host the event in your own home or studio. Or you may gather in a location with other artists. It's more fun with multiple artists and visitors like seeing multiple artists at each site.
​If you are hosting an open studio, please limit the exhibition to your own work and the work of other open studio participating artists. All participating artists must pay the registration fee; please do not invite artists who have not paid the registration fee. 

Calaveras In-Person Artist Studio Tours 2025
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​Application and registration

We are accepting applications for the 2025 In-Person Artist Studios Tour, October 4 & 5, Saturday and Sunday. This is the premiere art event of the summer that allows artists to open their studios or share space to welcome the public. Each artists must register separately and pay the registration fee regardless of where they are exhibiting. Your fees help defray the cost of producing this event.

You must be a member to participate. Membership and registration fees can be paid separately or together.

Registration is $50. Please pay by check or call Kathy at 209-754-1774 to pay by credit card. You may also use the PayPal Link on our webpage.

We have several membership levels. You may choose whichever level applies. You can pay for membership only by check, credit card or Paypal on the website. (Become a member of the Calaveras County Arts Council)
Basic: $35
Family: $50
Business: $75

When you have registered, please send a bio/artist statement and two to three high-quality high-resolution images (300 dpi, at least 4 inches on the longest side) to Kathy at the Calaveras County Arts Council,  [email protected]
If you want to be listed in the brochure and on the poster, we will need your images by September 8, 2025.