Event Information

When You Know Your Neighbor was a summer and fall 2025 group show in the Exhibit@50 Prospect shop windows near the Union Square MBTA Green Line station. The show, curated for SOS by Claire Millett Lima, invited Somerville artists to explore themes of connection, place, and the many expressions of community.

Visions of Somerville was a winter and spring 2025 exhibit at 50 Prospect Street, near the Union Square T stop.

This exhibit at Narrative Bookshop, 387 Highland Avenue in Davis Square, showcased the transporting power of written & spoken narratives, translated into visual forms of alternate worlds created by Somerville artists.

The SOS 2025 Volunteer Small Works Show, at Forge Baking Company, displayed small works of art by the people who work hard to make Somerville Open Studios happen every year.

This Locavore show at Neighborhood Produce, 691 Broadway in Ball Square, displayed art on the theme of “Sustenance”.

In the spirit of the SOS 2025 theme “Flourish”, we asked exhibiting artists to explore ways that art can thrive, grow, bloom, or to attract attention. The exhibit was displayed at the Inside-Out Gallery, in the windows of the Davis Square CVS.

This installation by Karin Anell, part of the First Look show at the Somerville Museum, aimed to start a conversation about fear and make people feel less alone. It represented a pulse check on the collective emotional psyche at a moment in time. From spring of 2022 to early fall 2024, 1,000 people across the…