Spring 2012 Tour - May 12-13!
Last fall the Weaverville Art Safari closed out its 10th year of existence … and this coming Mother’s Day Weekend we’ll kick off a whole new decade of opening our studios and making fine art accessible to everyone. We’ll showcase creativity and imagination, and bring hundreds of visitors to a community in which its artists, its businesses and its citizens have bonded in a unique and wonderful way.
For those who haven’t experienced a Weaverville Art Safari you should know it’s a free, self-guided tour of artists’ home studios in the scenic area surrounding the villages of Weaverville and Barnardsville, North Carolina. Weaverville is located just 10 minutes north of Asheville. Safari visitors are granted direct access to the home studios of a wide variety of local artists and a few visiting artists. This spring we have 41 artists participating.
Items
available for purchase
come from many fine
art mediums including
Jewelry, Glass Art,
Paintings, Garden Art,
Sculpture, Pottery,
Furniture, Fiber Arts,
and more! To learn
about the artists who
will be participating
this spring, and see
samples of their beautiful
work, go to the Artists
page for a preview,
or download
a printable brochure complete with
maps and artist information.
As experienced art buyers will testify, a major benefit of studio tours is direct-from-the-source pricing, so think about the Art Safari tour as a way to find unique and beautiful art treasures at reasonable prices.
Our biannual schedule puts us right in the middle of, arguably, the two most beautiful seasons of the year here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The May tours are eagerly anticipated because they allow our visitors to experience the wonderful spectacle of spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Add in the traditions of Mother’s Day – a time for families to be together and have some fun – and it’s a recipe for smiles and memory-making.
As usual we’ll
launch our special
weekend on the Friday
night before the event
with a gala Preview
Party (May 11). That
event allows visitors
to meet our artists
and preview their work – and
to make some decisions
re what studios they
want to visit over
the weekend. It’s
also a fundraiser that
helps us to keep the
Art Safari going. The
party includes a silent
auction of works donated
by each artist, lots
of great door prizes,
heavy hors d’ouevres,
music and a cash bar.
It’s always a
great time.
For full Preview Party details & directions check out our Tour Info page.
