Download the Open Studios Map here: Side 1 & Side 2

Each year the community of artists and artisans in Benicia welcome visitors to experience an Open Studios event the first weekend of May. This year, the Open Studios event will take place Saturday and Sunday, April 30th and May 1st. This is a unique opportunity to meet with artists in their studios and home workspaces to see new and exciting works of art. More than 60 studios will be open to the public for those two days, as visitors are afforded a rare opportunity to talk personally with artists whose work they admire and to see their favorite - or soon-to-be favorite - artists at work.

Benicia is home to painters, sculptors, photographers, woodturners, illustrators, metalsmiths, ceramicists, and jewelry designers, with studios scattered through the city, but primarily concentrated in Benicia's intriguing Arsenal arts district. The Benicia Artists Open Studios event is prime opportunity for art lovers, in part due to the Arsenal's nearly 100 artists being concentrated into a relatively small, walkable area. In contrast to most open studios events, visitors are able to park their cars and walk to dozens of artist studios, making it possible to see much more art.

Participating Artists Include:

Brad Adams, Avanti Photography, Hugo Avianto, Nikki Basch-Davis, Robert Bedwell, Benicia Middle School Artists, Brigitte Bize, Paula Boas, Sharon Payne Bolton, Kari Brinck, Mernie Buchanan, Cantrell Portrait Design, Carin Coleridge, Alexandra Connor , Carol Dalton , Pam Dixon, John Ebersole, Fiber-Frolics, Kathleen Flores, Nancy Freeman, Pamela FreyJudi Morales Gibson, Bea Guttman, Pat Hall, Erika Hoffe, Linda V. Hubbard, Terry Hughes, Inferno ArtWorks, Mike Kendall, Connie Kirk, Jeanne Lamosse, Belinda Lang, Biganess Livingstone, Katya Madrid, Mike Marcus, Geraldine McKeever, Joseph Mele, Connie Millholland, Susan Mitchell, Cherry Moore, Lindsay Art Glass, Jack Mills, Dixie Mohan, Sam Morse, Jennifer Ngrete, Anne Petty, Plein Air Gallery, Chuck Potter, Robert Quarrick, William Rose, Susan Marcus Sachs, Marilyn Schaeffer, Stephen Schumm, Doug Simon, Smyers Glass, Russell Spitler, Arthur Stern, Debra Stuckgold, Toby Tover-Krein, Michael Trahan, Jerrold Turner, Erika Von Zoog, Lee Wilder Snider, Diane Williams, Sabina Yates, Scott Zoog