Somerset Art Weeks 2022- SANCTUARYx
SANCTUARY- 24 Sept- 9 Oct
*The Art Weeks Guide will be out in mid August at cultural venues across Somerset and beyond and more details about the event, Guide stockists and the full event programme will appear here on the SAW website also from mid August*
Somerset Art Weeks returns for 2022 with the theme Sanctuary. With venues hosting group exhibitions, curated shows and events from SAW Members and invited artists, it’s also a showcase for SAW-supported projects, special commissions and new work from bursary artists. With many finding Sanctuary in Somerset during the pandemic, we want to celebrate the journey to recovery of our visual senses, with three distinct strands to the Festival theme:
Spiritual – a holy or sacred place
Sustainable – a place that provides safety or protection i.e. the natural world, plants + wildlife
Social – the protection from danger or a difficult situation that is provided by a safe place
As part of SAW’s Artist Development and Education Programmes, there are many opportunities for Somerset Artists and invited practitioners to take part in this year’s event and develop their creative practice, including Creative Pathway Bursaries and a Micro Commission Programme, as well as providing engagement for communities and audiences as artists respond to the connections between art, nature and wellbeing and we take time to reflect, rebuild and repair.
Somerset Art Weeks 2022 is a time for Somerset Arts Organisations to join in this visual Arcadia, along with a host of unique, unusual or even unused venues in the many special places at the heart of our communities. With Somerset Art Works recently declaring the Climate Emergency, this year’s event has an increasing focus on Sustainability and artists whose practice focuses on our relationship to the natural world.
It’s also a space for SAW Members to collaborate, connect and create something different to surprise and delight audiences. Expect to see established galleries and spaces, along with curators and special shows in some of the counties’ important historical buildings and community places.
For new artists or arts organisations wishing to take part in future events and SAW activities- please take a look at the Membership area of the website.
If you require more general information, Art Weeks Coordinator Paul Newman [email protected]
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