Applications for the 2025 event are now open. Please click on 'How the Event Works' for more information about the event; and to apply just click on 'Application Form'. The closing date is Monday 13th January 2025. We look forward to working with you!
The Derbyshire Open Arts Team is presently getting ready to open the application process for the 2025 Open Studio Style event. This may take some time as we have lost some of our Committee members and have new committee members taking their places.
We are all very enthusiastic and keen to make 2025 a good year throughout Derbyshire. Keep your eye on the website for the 'Applications Opening' date. Better still, sign up for the Newsletter on the Home Page and have it delivered to your in-box.
We look forward to exhibiting with you in May, any queries email us at [email protected].
Derbyshire Open Arts Team
Thank you from everyone at Derbyshire Open Arts for visiting us this year. We hope you had a splendid time viewing the art on display, chatting with the artists and touring round our beautiful county. We look forward to seeing you next year!
Bob Neill, pyrographer exhibiting at Venue 48 in Turnditch, will be interviewed on BBC Radio Derby on Tuesday 21st May at 12.00 noon. The slot is 45 minutes long so plenty of time to find out more about pyrography and what's happening in Turnditch.
We're all so excited! Artists and makers across the county are getting ready to welcome all the lovely visitors to their venues. Make sure you put it in your diary, create a reminder, set an alarm so that you don't miss out on the best arty weekend of the year!
Help us fuel the buzz around Derbyshire Open Arts by telling friends, family and posting about it on social media. We have such a special event; let's make sure everyone knows about it! Meanwhile, if you would like a brochure to supplement what you can see on this website, they are now available in libraries, schools, cafes, hotels and almost anywhere you can think of across the county.
Grab the balloons – set off the fireworks! The 2024 brochures have been delivered, and mighty smart they look, too!
Over the next few days, a team will get to work sorting quantities for the distribution agencies and then for the 200 or so artists, along with all their other promotional materials – a mammoth task!
The artists who have volunteered to be distribution hubs will be fetching these next week and will contact individual artists on their lists, to arrange collection of their ‘goody bags’, shortly after that.
Huge shout-out to the brochure sorters! Thank you!
Exciting news - your committee volunteers are gathering to proof read the 2024 Derbyshire Open Arts brochure, this Friday! Every section and every entry will be read and re-read by at least 4 different people in a process that takes most of the day. This means that we are nearing the moment of printing and we will keep you posted here, as to when the brochures will be available. Watch this space!
Applications for the 2024 event closed on 15th January. If you have had problems with your application and haven't yet finalised it, please email us at [email protected] for assistance.
The wait is over and the 2024 Derbyshire Open Arts website is open! Now is the time to plan your application - where to exhibit, what photos to use and what you will write about your art.
Participation is inclusive, so there is no selection process. You just need to ensure that your practice is suitable for family viewing. You can apply any time between now and January 15th. All artists taking part will become viewable on the website shortly after this date.
We're very sorry but there is a slight delay to the opening of applications for Derbyshire Open Arts 2024. We hoped to open at the end of October, but updates to the website are taking longer than we expected.
As soon as we are ready to open we will send out a newsletter to alert you. Don't worry, there's plenty of time for you to do your application as the closing date is the middle of January 2024.
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The Derbyshire Open Arts 2023 committee would like to say a huge thank you to all the fantastic artists that took part this year, and to every one of the visitors that came in to any venue. We hope you all enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to welcoming everyone next year. The website remains open, and any artist can be contacted through their page if you regret not buying something that took your eye!