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Welcome to our 26th year.
The 2012 Silicon Valley Open Studios is fast approaching. If you're a Silicon Valley artist, don't miss this chance to kick-off the 2012 art season and display your newest work to the public.
The Silicon Valley Open Studios event helps develop a close personal relationship between the artist and the art enthusiast. As an artist, it gives you a chance to meet your prospective customers and get to know them. You can tell them first hand about your background, your motivation, and your background. You can also capture their imagination with a live demonstrations of your art or discuss a commissioned work.
Participation in Silicon Valley Open Studios entitles you to the following:
- Participation for one, two, or three weekends for one entry fee
- Your personal page on this web site, with up to three graphics and your artist's statement for one year
- Your site information and one image in the printed Artist Directory. More than 35,000 copies are distributed freely throughout Silicon Valley
- Attendance at SVOS University seminars that give you helpful tips on how to get the most out of your Open Studios experience. These are led by veteran artists with years of experience in Open Studios
- Opportunities to display a sample of your work at one of the preview exhibitions. This is subject to available space so register early.
- A chance to have your images considered for inclusion in the press kit and on the cover if you register before December 15th.
Click here to learn more.
Portrait of an Artist:
SALLY RAYN
Dynamic Symbolism
“Colors, color harmonies, shapes of nature, and stream of consciousness are what inspire me.”
It is this inspiration that Sally Rayn brings to dynamic symbolism, a new abstract art form that invites you as the viewer to interact both intuitively and intellectually with her images. Dynamic symbolism is not like other art forms, which encourage you to interpret the artist’s intent. Dynamic symbolism invites you to find and interpret the meaning of unique forms in the artist’s work. In this new form of art, beauty changes over time since it truly is in the eye of the beholder.Read more
Join our group to find a group
Communicate with other artists about forming your own group. We've set up a Yahoo group called for prospective SVOS artists. Here artists who want to host others, or artists who are looking for a place to show can get together. You don't have to register before you can join this group.
If you're looking for a place to show during one of the open studios weekends, then post your request on this group site. Mention what kind of art you have and the weekends and areas you are hoping to find a place.
If you want to host other artists at your studios, then mention the weekends and area where you are and the type of artists that you are looking to host.

