San Francisco Bay Area Open Studios, Art Walks, Art Shows
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San Francisco Bay Area Art Walks & Open Studios
Below are the upcoming art walks and open studios in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the time being, I included regional open studios and individual studios doing one-off open studios outside the regional ones.
As for art walks, I mostly included ones specifically focused on recurring art walks vs the one-off/annual art and wine festivals (those will be included in the free weekly newsletters).
Depending on feedback and reader interest, I may add more types of art events, add more details.
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San Francisco Bay Area Art Walks
San Francisco Art Walks
1st Thursday Art Walk, Tenderloin / Lower Polk
3rd Thursday Art Walk, Clement Street (Inner Richmond), Quarterly
1st Friday Art Walk, Castro, San Francisco
1st Friday Art Walk, North Beach, San Francisco
1st Saturday Art Walk, Lower Haight, San Francisco
East Bay Art Walks Alameda, Contra Costa
Oakland First Fridays, Uptown
2nd Friday Alameda Art Walk
Livermore Art Walk, October 10
Santa Clara & San Mateo County Art Walks
South First Fridays in San Jose
First Fridays Art On Main, Half Moon Bay
Third Friday Art Walks, Gilroy
Friday Art on the Square, Redwood City (summer)
North Bay Art Walks
Sonoma Art Walks
Sonoma Art Walk, First Thursdays
Petaluma First Fridays (Arts Alive)
Marin County Art Walks
First Tuesday Art Walk, Mill Valley
Second Friday Art Walk, San Rafael
Solano County Walks
2nd Friday Art Walks, Vallejo
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San Francisco Bay Area Open Studios
In addition to regional open studio dates, some have additional open studios at other times of the year.
San Francisco Open Art Studios
Weekend 1 | Sept. 26 & 27
Bayview, Excelsior, Hunters Point, Ingleside, Oceanview, Outer Mission, Portola, Visitacion Valley
Weekend 2 | Oct. 3 & 4
Bernal Heights, Castro, Glen Park, Mission, Noe ValleyWeekend 3 | Oct. 10 & 11
Dogpatch, East Cut, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, SOMA, South BeachWeekend 4 | Oct. 17 & 18
Hunters Point Shipyard ArtistsWeekend 5 | Oct. 24 & 25
Chinatown, Civic Center, Cole Valley, Downtown, Duboce Triangle, Haight-Ashbury, Hayes Valley, Inner Sunset, Laurel Heights / Presidio Heights, Marina, Nob Hill, Nopa/Divisadero, North Beach, Pacific Heights, Parkside, Richmond, Russian Hill, Sunset, Twin Peaks, West Portal
Mission Artists Open Studios, April 11-12
Shipyard Open Studios, Bayview, April 25-26
East Bay Open Art Studios
June 6/7, June 13/14 - East Bay Open Studios
South Bay/Peninsula Open Art Studios
May 2/3 - Coastside and Northern Peninsula
May 9/10 - Mid-Peninsula
May 16/17 - South Bay
North Bay Open Art Studios
Marin Open Studios, May 3/4, May 10/11
Sonoma Art at the Source Open Studios, June 7/8, June 14/15
Santa Rosa Open Studios, September 12/13, September 19/20
ICB Artists at Work, Sausalito, September 26
ICB/ART Open Studios, Sausalito, November 13-15
San Francisco Bay Area Self-Guided Art Walks
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