This annual event provides a free opportunity to visit, tour, and enjoy the Hambidge campus. Festivities will include open studios, art-making, food, musical performances, art sales, and more. Don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity to enjoy our historic private sanctuary for a fun filled day of arts, pottery, music, food and the great outdoors.
Visit with the current artists-in-residence in their studios, including Josh Aronson, D. Pierre Baulos, Marina DeMarco, Maryam Kashani, Katrina DeMarcus Santiago. These dynamic artists-in-residence include writers, photographers, filmmakers, and multidisciplinary artists from California, Washington, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, and Canada.
Join in art-making activities like printmaking and U-Do-Raku (glaze your own pot and watch it be fired) and the the Weave Shed Gallery will offer pottery for sale.
Enjoy live music by The Cornbread Ted Dynamite Duo performing a variety of high energy, old timey, vernacular musical styles.
Come see our Barker’s Creek Grist Mill in action grinding grits and cornmeal. Enter our inaugural Cornbread Contest and see how your recipe measures up. We will be selling homemade Chili (meat and veggie) and grits with all the toppings from our GREAT GRITS TRUCK. Contact ddavid@hambidge.org with "Cornbread Contest" in the subject line for details and registration.
Learn more about our artists and musical guests on our Open House landing page.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
This year, we are honoring acclaimed artist and poet Laurence Holden, a longtime friend of Hambidge, for his dedicated service of over 40 years. A true renaissance man, his craft and wisdom seem to know no limits and includes serving as lead miller at Hambidge’s Barkers’ Creek Grist Mill. A special exhibition of work created by Laurence while in residence will be on display in the Antinori Village and Hambidge stone ground grits and cornmeal will be celebrated in a wide variety of ways.
EVENT SCHEDULE
10:30am – (Hosts & Sponsors Only) Drinks and light refreshments around the fire pit at Bunnen Commons of the Antinori Village.
11am - Noon – Hosts and Sponsors will gather outside the Bunnen Commons for Porch Stories, led by Hambidge Leadership, for storytelling, shared creative experiences, insights, and inspiration.
Noon - 5pm – The Open House opens to the public with activities across the Hambidge Campus, offering a range of engaging art experiences for folks to explore and enjoy.
VOLUNTEERS
The success of this festive event is bolstered by our team of friends and volunteers each year. We need volunteers to sit at the welcome table, help with parking, our pottery sale, food service, answer questions about our lovely facilities, and more. We have open slots from 10 am until 7 pm. If you’re willing to help us out and be a part of this fun day, please sign-up with this LINK.