Philly Open Studio Tours

Sooner or later you reach the point where the posters on your wall outlive their decorating value and original art is what should be hanging on your walls anyway; anything else is "wall decor" not art!

And one of the best ways to spend a full artsy weekend and at the same time see a lot of artwork at all levels of the economic scale is to make sure that you spend time visiting the 9th Annual Philadelphia Open Studios Tour (POST). During the city-wide event, more than 290 professional visual artists in 16 neighborhoods will open their studios to the public to show and sell artwork.

The tours are spread over two weekends and they start this weekend (Oct. 4-5) with studios West of Broad Street and continue next weekend (Oct. 11-12) with studios East of Broad Street. The artists will have their studios open from 12-6PM each of those weekends.

You can plan your studio tour here, and all events are open and free to the public. Go buy some artwork!

Image by Kara Rennert courtesy of POST.