Owen Sound will be full of artists Saturday for the fifth annual Art Walk.
It’s set for Saturday June 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A release says it will be,”Bigger than ever before.”
The award-winning self-guided walking tour includes 13 arts-related galleries, studios, and businesses which will feature special exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, and opportunities to meet artists and learn more about the local arts scene.
ArtWalk also includes a scavenger hunt with prizes, and a plein air art competition featuring artists working outdoors throughout the city’s downtown.
The release says special programming this year includes the addition of the culinary arts and international cuisine at the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market (open 8 – 12:30) with local artist-chefs Gilles Sarazin (French), Zach Keeshig (Indigenous), John Rodriguez (Latino), Rajab el Sheayer (Syrian), Olha Sckhina (Ukrainian), Fran Wensley (Italian), as well as Machaella Burnetrt (pizza) and Jason Hayes (sustainably grown and raised foods).
Program highlights include a demonstration of printing and exhibit of recent work by Mammoth Hall Press at Heartwood Home and Georgian Bay School of the Arts.
The event will also include an exhibition of turned wood bowls at Intersections and a community paint-by-number mural at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library.
Guest curator Lydia Knox will do tarot card readings as part of The Art of the Tarot group exhibition at Grey Gallery.
ArtWalk 2023 will include:
– Billie Bridgman Studio at 748 2nd Avenue East;
– Curvey Lines Art School & Print Shop at 817 3rd Avenue East;
– Georgian Bay School of the Arts at 938 2nd Avenue East;
– Grey Gallery at 883 2nd Avenue East;
– Heartwood Home at 939 2nd Avenue East;
– Intersections Wood Collaborative at 299 10th St East;
– Jean Francis Studio at 986 1st Avenue East;
– Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library at 824 1st Avenue West;
– Owen Sound Artists’ Co-op at 942 2nd Avenue East;
– Owen Sound Farmers’ Market at 88 8th Street East;
– Tom Thomson Art Gallery at 840 1st Avenue West;
– Upwards Art Studio at 975 2nd Avenue East; bnd
– The Warehouse Studios at 3rd floor, 1190 2nd Avenue East.