THE three-day Noosa Open Studio event has been a huge success with hundreds of locals and visitors making the most of the chance to see where the region’s best art is created.
The festival saw 40 artists and artisans in more than 30 studios across the Noosa region open their studios to the public for three days and organisers were overwhelmed with the response from both the local community and visitors to the region.
Noosa Open Studios chairwoman Christine Pritchard said the event was a great success.
“The studio bus tours were full with eager studio visitors and some of the tours could have been filled two or more times over,” she said.
Ms Pritchard said she has received outstanding feedback from participants and artists who loved the inaugural event and are already looking forward to the next one.
“We are delighted with such positive feedback for our inaugural Noosa Open Studios event,” she said.
“It’s only been possible because of the outstanding support and engagement from Noosa Council and Tourism Noosa, our local sponsors, our committed volunteers and the amazingly high quality and works of our Noosa region artists and artisans.
“Noosa deserves to be nationally acknowledged as a centre of excellence for visual and creative arts and the Noosa Open Studios event’s mission is to achieve that objective.”
Ms Pritchard said any local artists who would like to participate in the 2017 event can email their interest to noosaopenstudios@gmail.com now.
To see the full gallery of photos from the event, visit www.noosatoday.com.au.
