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2009 OPEN STUDIOS

The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County's Open Studios Art Tour takes place the first three weekends in October. From the redwoods to the sea, thousands of art enthusiasts visit with artists in their studios to see the creative process at work.

The Open Studios Art Tour is a self-guided tour with 300 studios open throughout Santa Cruz County. Art Tour information is available through the 15-month Artist Guide/Calendar, a Preview Exhibit at the Santa Cruz Art League, and on our website http://www.ccscc.org/index.php/open-studios.html. The museum-quality, 15-month Artist Guide/Calendar, available for $20 at more than 50 locations in Santa Cruz County, includes a map of Open Studios Locations and contact information for each artist. Calendar sales benefit local arts and arts learning programs.

OPEN STUDIOS DATES for 2009

  • North County:
  • South County:
  • Encore Weekend:
  • October 3rd & 4th
  • October 10th & 11th
  • October 17th & 18th

PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Paul Roehl - Unit 501
Paul Roehl was raised in California, primarily in the South Bay Area. He received an MA in painting and an MFA in pictorial arts from San Jose State University. He has taught college level painting, printmaking and drawing, as well as art history and art appreciation, for over twenty years. His work has been shown at the San Jose Art Museum, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Monterey Museum of Art and the Berkeley Art Center.

Claire Lerner - Unit 501
Claire Lerner was born and raised in New York, New York. She received her MFA and BFA in Fine Art Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After graduate school Claire moved to California where she was a member of the photography faculty at Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California for ten years. For the past nine years she has taught black and white and digital photography at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California. She has conducted many workshops on various photographic processes. She is a member of the Society of Photographic Education and the National Art Educators Association.

Barbara Downs - Unit 511E
Barbara Downs is an artist working in abstract-figurative oil painting, encaustic/mixed media, and abstract steel and mixed media sculpture. She started out as a printmaker, studying at University of Redlands and UC Santa Cruz, and still enjoys the physical processes involved in the making of art. In her work, she strives to leave enough ambiguity so as to allow the viewer to find their own meaning.