Having just been alerted today about an accidentally pinned post on our blog on the site, which was from last year, we would like to reassure everyone that no cancellation has occurred and we are all set to welcome you tomorrow and Sunday.
These accidents happen! Hopefully no one has been misled. Thank you to Heather, a conscientious site visitor, for letting us know!
Just a reminder that the Oxford Studio Tour is indeed this weekend: April 30 and May 1, 2022. Whether we should call it the 13th, 14th or 15th annual tour, after all the COVID postponements and virtualizations, is anyone’s guess, but we artists are excited to welcome tourists to our studios and galleries this year.
We encourage you to visit those you haven’t visited in previous years, or revisit to your heart’s content. All of us are just so happy we can finally do this again. Some have been super creative, others have been less so, with all that’s been happening. Regardless, we all have art we want you to see and in the past few years, not so much interaction with collectors. It will be a treat for all of us.
Please, while touring, we ask you to be mindful of others’ comfort and safety, and your own, as we will be. All of us will be doing our best!
If you need a map, click here, or go to the website’s home page or the Studios and Artists by Location page. While driving, look for the red signs. If you haven’t got a brochure, any artist should be able to provide you with one. Happy art touring!
Thirty-five participants in 18 locations are thrilled to be physically sharing their artistic vision once again through the 14th Annual Oxford Studio Tour, scheduled for Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“It will be nice to actually see people again,” said Burgessville-area wildlife and nature acrylic artist Rhonda Franks. “It’s nice to get an actual physical response to your work.”
COVID-19’s unwelcome arrival caused a one-year hiatus, then converted the 13th annual tour in 2021 to an online event due to ongoing pandemic challenges and restrictions. That experience underlined how fortunate one of the tour’s founders and ongoing organizers Sue Goossens of Otterville feels, ‘to be doing this again.’
“It’s something as an artist you look forward to.”
Full-colour brochures complete with descriptions of each artist and a tour map identifying individual and shared gallery locations (highlighted by red tour signs) are available at the Woodstock Art Gallery, Ingersoll’s Creative Arts Centre, Tillsonburg’s Station Arts Centre, tour sponsors and participating artists. Additional information including GPS coordinates is also included on the tour website (oxfordstudiotour.ca), available by calling 519-842-6151 or visiting the tour’s dedicated Facebook page. The latter will be hosting gift certificate giveaways courtesy of several participating artists throughout the month of April.
COVID’s dynamic nature has made establishing hard and fast criteria for artists and tour participants alike difficult. If artists have special requests for visitors with regards for example to sanitation or masking, they are to be clearly identified on location.
“The biggest thing is just being respectful,” said Tillsonburg-based oil painter Tabitha Verbuyst.
There is no charge for the tour, which covers both a wide range of Oxford County geographically, and media including oil, acrylic, watercolour painting, mixed media, graphite, pen and ink, pottery, jewellery, photography, weaving, fibre arts, encaustic, collage, digital art and gourds. Those resuming what has become an annual spring tradition celebrating and encouraging connection amongst the county’s artistic community and its supporters will notice a blend of familiar and new faces, offering what Goossens believes is ‘something for everyone’.
“It’s all out there, just waiting to be found.”
Feedback on the studio tour’s return has been ‘highly positive’ says Goossens, who believes it is not only artists looking forward to the weekend event.
“People are anxious to get out and do something as well,” she concluded.
From left, Paulette Robertson (foreground), Lianne Todd (rear), Sue Goossens (rear), Aggie Armstrong (front), Lesley Penwill (front), Tabitha Verbuyst (rear) and Rhonda Franks (rear) are among 35 participating artists in 18 locations featured on the 14th Annual Oxford Studio Tour, scheduled for Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information on the tour can be found in full-colour brochures, the tour website (oxfordstudiotour.ca), by calling 519-842-6151 or visiting the tour’s dedicated Facebook page.
From left, Paulette Robertson (foreground), Lianne Todd (rear), Sue Goossens (rear), Aggie Armstrong (front), Lesley Penwill (front), Tabitha Verbuyst (rear) and Rhonda Franks (rear) are among 35 participating artists in 18 locations featured on the 15th Annual Oxford Studio Tour, scheduled for Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information on the tour can be found in full-colour brochures, the tour website (oxfordstudiotour.ca), by calling 519-842-6151 or visiting the tour’s dedicated Facebook page.
It is officially less than a month until the Oxford Studio Tour. Yes, no April Fool’s joke, it is a real life event for the first time since 2019, and we are excited!
You can pick up printed brochures as of today at:
Early Bird coffee: 2 locations (these will be open during tour, also):
375 Dundas St N4S 1B6 & 815 Juliana Dr #3 Woodstock Ontario
Schaus Decorating, and
Your Farm Market in Woodstock.
Soon, they will also be available at:
Tourism Oxford, 580 Bruin Blvd, Woodstock, ON, N4V 1E5
Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, 125 Centennial Ln, Ingersoll, ON, N5C 3V3
Station Arts Centre, 41 Bridge. St. W., Tillsonburg, ON, N4G 5P2
Or, you can just ask any of the artists on the tour for one. Other options include visiting our website for information on artists, links to Google maps of tour locations, and more. www.oxfordstudiotour.ca
Stay tuned!
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