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Washington County Art Alliance invites all artists and interested parties to attend a planning meeting at Golden Road Arts, 5459 SE Golden Rd, Hillsboro, OR 97123 on Sunday April 10th at 1pm. This is a chance to meet other artists and to influence our plans for 2022. If you wish to attend in person please RSVP via email to barbaramason45@gmail.com .The meeting will be outdoors if weather permits, otherwise indoors. Face masks are optional, please respect the choices of others.

Currently we are not on a trajectory to hold an in person open studios tour in October 2022. There are two reasons for this. The first reason is that I will be stepping down as chairman and am not planning on leading the next Open Studios weekend. The second reason is that we do not want to go ahead with all of the work and expense of registering artists and printing a catalog unless we are confident that the COVID pandemic is sufficiently under control. While the situation seems to be greatly improved I do not feel confident planning six months out.   If anyone has ideas on how we can resolve these issues please bring those ideas to this meeting.

We do intend to continue our educational activities. In 2021 we mentored six students and we plan to continue this program in 2022. At this meeting we will discuss how the program worked last year and what changes we might make.

We would also like to expand our online presence in 2022. In 2021 we featured two artists in the online studios tour. Online studios is an opportunity for artists who for whatever reason would not be able to participate in an in person tour. This includes artists who for health or other reasons do not want large numbers of visitors in their home. It would also include artists who do not live in a house or apartment that is well set up for visitors or does not have adequate parking. We envisage more online events to take place periodically which could include short video clips and live interviews with the opportunity for the audience to ask questions. These could be paired with in person events.

For those who cannot attend in person we will be setting up a Zoom meeting which will allow you to hear the conversations and ask questions via the chat, your audio and camera will be turned off. This will be recorded. Here is the information:

Chris Goldthorpe is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Open Studios April 2022 Planning Meeting
Time: Apr 10, 2022 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) – the meeting will probably not get underway until around 1:10.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84586343674?pwd=bEovZ295c2ludFBYZ3Q4Z0VVYnlaQT09

Meeting ID: 845 8634 3674
Passcode: 493791

If you have questions that you would like to ask in advance of the meeting or are unable to attend the meeting but have a question you can use this form.If you are interested in volunteering or would like to know more about volunteer opportunities you can use the same form .

In other news Sharon Dunham has asked me to pass on information about the chalk art festival La Strada De Pastelli that will be taking place in Hillsboro in July,  for those who are interested you have until April 15 to apply for a vendor booth.


Chris Goldthorpe ( acting chairman Washington County Art Alliance )

The time of year is approaching when we would normally start registration for the next Open Studios Tour. We are however caught up in an extremely unpredictable pandemic. While we all hope that the situation will be improved by October it is too early to make that call. We will not start registration just yet but may do so later in the Spring.

We are also looking at holding an online tour which would take place regardless of whether the in person tour happens. We have applied for a grant which would enable that to happen. We will post updates as they become available.

If you are interested in getting updates about the tour please use our contact form to ask to be added to our mailing list.

Washington County Open Studios Tour is this weekend, October 16th and 17th from 10am to 5pm both days. There are six studios that will not be opening, that still leaves over 40 studios and galleries that will be open. You can find an online map here .Face masks are required at all studios.

Our printed guide is now available. It is a folded item with a map on one side and a list of artists on the other.

To find a local business that carries map guides visit this page.

Registration for the 2021 tour closed on June 1st and the list of Artists and Galleries is now up on our website under Artists and Galleries.