2025 Open House at the Hambidge Arts Center

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, and Gavin Bernard. 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), corn gelee printmaking, cyanotype printing, a botanical illustration scavenger hunt, and more. The Weave Shed Gallery will once again offer pottery for sale.

Enjoy live music by The Cornbread Ted Dynamite Duo performing a variety of high energy, old timey, vernacular musical styles and ivywav providing earthy and mild-tempered sounds with Neo-Soul, R&B and jazz influences. We will also have a one-act show by Rabun County artist Charlie Dingler and will finish out the day with a closing dance on the front lawn of Lucinda’s Rock House lead by Julie Stuart.

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 and grits with all the toppings from our GREAT GRITS TRIKE. For for Cornbread Cook Off details and registration visit our guidelines.

Learn more about our artists and musical guests below!

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 by Laurence will be on display in the Antinori Village and Hambidge stone ground grits and cornmeal will be celebrated in a wide variety of ways.