Looking for art in this city isn’t hard, but the great majority of it might not be where you might think to look. Sure, museums like the Museum of Fine Arts or the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum are well touted in any Boston visitor’s guide, not to mention the many daytrips out to the Berkshires, like the Norman Rockwell Museum or the Mass Moca, but what those guides don’t tell you is that many neighborhoods in and around the city host their own walking art shows—the Open Studio weekend.The largest of these is hosted by the city of Somerville just outside Boston. For the first weekend in May very spring, the city’s many
resident painters, sculptors and photographers open the doors of their private art studios to the droves of people making their way on foot trying to see as many of them as possible. The Somerville Open Studios weekend is completely free and the city prints walk-able maps which they post copies of at bus stops for weeks before the event. Nibbling on cheese and sipping on wine from studio to studio is the cherry on top of the whole day spent getting to know the art scene in Somerville on a personal level.
resident painters, sculptors and photographers open the doors of their private art studios to the droves of people making their way on foot trying to see as many of them as possible. The Somerville Open Studios weekend is completely free and the city prints walk-able maps which they post copies of at bus stops for weeks before the event. Nibbling on cheese and sipping on wine from studio to studio is the cherry on top of the whole day spent getting to know the art scene in Somerville on a personal level.
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