SOMA Spring Open Studios

Stop in at my Open Studio this weekend at:
Clara Street Studios
185 Clara Street
(off of 5th street between Folsom & Harrison Streets)
Saturday & Sunday, April 17-18, 2001
12noon - 6pm

Please join me this weekend for Spring Open Studios. For the past few years we have been organizing a spring event in addition to the fall, but it's never been that well attended or publicized. Artist Mike Kimball and myself have taken it upon ourselves to organize over 100 artists in the South of Market neighborhood in order to create a larger artist network and sense of community, making our fellow artists more accessible to the public. It has been a work in progress, and this year I feel as if we are finally seeing the results that we've been looking for.

The addition of Arc Gallery to our neighborhood has been an integral part of creating this sense of community and has acted as a catalyst in identifying SOMA as an emerging artist mecca. Last Friday's Spring Open Studios Preview Reception at Arc was a HUGE success, bringing in over 500 guests. The energy at this event was amazing - a wonderful mix of San Francisco's finest mingled in our gallery while a full on temporary food court assembled on Folsom Street outside the gallery, including Pizza Politana, a mobile neapolitan wood-fired pizza oven.

I am particularly excited about this springs event because Mike and myself have worked so hard the past few years to get our group on the map, and it has been extremely satisfying to see all of our hard work pay off. Please come on by and check out over 75 artists in our neighborhood this weekend and see what all the buzz is about!