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ArtSpan
Location
  • San Francisco, CA
Executive Director
Joen Madonna [1]
Website https://www.artspan.org/home

ArtSpan is a San Francisco, California, nonprofit organization that produces the oldest and largest artist open studios event in the United States. Started in 1975, ArtSpan's San Francisco Open Studios (SFOS) takes place over four weekends in October and November each year with a different city district highlighted each weekend. The Open Studios take place in a myriad of different locations within each district. Some are in art galleries, some in apartments, some in garages and some in store fronts. Local publications often make recommendations for each weekend. In 2018, over 800 local artists participated in SFOS. [1]

While many of the artist's works can be found in galleries during the year, Open Studios gives the public the opportunity to meet the artists, see a much broader representation of the artist's work than can be seen in any other exhibit short of a retrospective and to buy original art work without gallery markups. [2]

Artspan also hosts the San Francisco Open Studios Exhibition that includes works from over 400 Open Studio artists organized by the districts the artists are showing in. SFOS gallery curators each choose a favorite piece. The AMPLIFY: Juror's Choice Awards are presented at ArtLaunch, [3] the event that marks the opening of the SFOS Exhibition.

AMPLIFY: Juror's Choice Award Winners [4]
Year Artist Juror
2019 Joshua Coffy [5] Irene Hernandez-Feiks, Curator & Founder of WonderlandSF & Chillin Productions
Aynur Girgin Westen [6] James Bacchi, Founding Partner of ArtHaus Gallery
Tanya Herrera [7] Patience Yi, Executive Director of Code and Canvas
Paul Madonna [8] Donna Seager, Founding Partner of Seager Gray Gallery
Mike Sanchez [9] Dylan Ozanich. Founding Partner of Scale Up Art
Sandra Yagi [10] Alan Bamberger, Art Consultant & Appraiser of ArtBusiness.com
2018 Tamara Avery [11]
Cy de Groat [12]
Camila Magrane [13]
Lynn Rubenzer [14]
Stevan Shapona [15]
2017 Ariel Gold [16]
Jane B. Grimm [17]
Michael Jang [18]
William Rhodes [19]
Cindy Shih [20]
Beth Davila Waldman [21]
Aynur Girgin Westin [22]
2016 Paul Madonna [23]
Robert Sakovich
Amy Ahlstrom [24]
Catherine Mackey [25]
Ramiro Cairo [26]
Liz Hickok [27]
Katja Leibenath [28]
2015 Amy Ahlstrom [29]
Kathy Aoki [30]
Monica Denevan [31]
Ivy Jacobsen [32]
Nina Katz [33]
Christine Meuris [34]
Kim Smith [35]
Maxine Solomon [36]
Sandra Yagi [37]

References

  1. ^ Waxmann, Laura (Nov 6, 2015). "40th Annual ArtSpan Open Studios Is This Weekend in SF Mission". Mission Local.
  2. ^ Volpicelli, Anna (October 2008). "Artists Who Collect: Inside the SF Homes of Obsessive Creatives". 7x7 Magazine.
  3. ^ "SF Open Studios 2018". San Francisco Examiner. October 11, 2018.
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  30. ^ "Kathy Aoki Art". Retrieved 2020-08-13.
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  32. ^ "IVY JACOBSEN". www.ivyjacobsen.com. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  33. ^ "Nina Katz". Nina Katz. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
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