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2025 Open Studio Event

Thank you to all registered artists for making SOS 2025 happen!
We hope to see you again for next year’s SOS, May 2-3, 2026.

A new SOS exhibit, When You Know Your Neighbor, is now installed at 50 Prospect Street in Union Square. It will be on display through October 31, 2025.

Follow our calendar for future events of interest to SOS artists.

Join our mailing list

To be notified about SOS 2026 registration and other SOS-related events, please join our mailing list. Make sure to select “Potential SOS Member Artist” when you enter your information. If you would consider pitching in, just select “SOS Volunteer Crew” as well.

Be a volunteer!

Somerville Open Studios is produced each year by a crew of committed artists and art lovers who volunteer their time. Consider volunteering. More information on volunteering is available.

Fill out the 2025 SOS Volunteer Opportunities form or email volunteer@somervilleopenstudios.org. Even if you can only spare a few hours, we’d love to have your help!

Artist news

Meeting, Information and Calls for Art below.

Call for Art: When You Know Your Neighbor

SOS has issued a Call for Art for a juried show called “When You Know Your Neighbor”, to be hung at 50 Prospect Street in Union Square during the summer and early fall of 2025.

This exhibition will highlight personal interpretations of neighborhood and kinship, both visible and hidden.

The deadline for submission is Saturday, June 7, 2025. The show is open to any artist who has been a member of SOS in any year since 2020.

Call for Art: SOS 2025 Locavore Show “Sustenance”

This year we celebrate Sustenance with a small works show at Neighborhood Produce in Ball Square. Work will be seen through the corner window at the intersection of Broadway and Boston Ave. Your interpretation of “sustenance” may be literal or symbolic, representational or abstract, painted, drawn, sculpted, photographic or multi-media. Submissions should not exceed 12” x 12” x 12” since the space is small. Submission deadline: Thursday, April 10, 2025.

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Tips For Showing Artists

Heather Balchunas of the Somerville Arts Council and Alison Drasner of the Somerville Museum have produced a list of Top 10 Tips to Have a Successful Open Studios. See also the Artists’ Tookit pages on the Museum website for more tips.