Look for the handicap accessible icon on our website and our tour guide for the artists you want to visit, or call the artist in question. Some places are, some places are not. You will find phone numbers and email addresses of each artist on the brochure and here on our website.

Please check with each artist you are visiting. Some accept credit cards and/or debit cards, some do not.

To find this out, please contact the artists you are interested in visiting.

Yes. Participants are expected to have a working email address (or at least access to one), and to check it regularly. Participants are also expected to review and respond to messages (when a response is required) from any AOS Board Member in a timely manner. AOS!! in the subject is required reading.

You are responsible for two different types of signs: Dated Signs (belong to AOS) and Location Signs (belong to the artist). You are expected to pick up 2 – 3 Dated Signs from your Region Manager in a timely manner and to place them in different locations, never all in one area (only one of these at the entrance of your space). Your location sign has a blank circle for you to add your studio number and is to be placed where guests can easily see it – only on the days you are open. (Numbers may change each year so do not paint them on. Use stick-on numbers from a hardware store.) If it is a hardship for you to pick up signs from your Region Manager in the town you are showing, and you would prefer to pick up in the area where you live, contact Aline Hoffman at optmst@icloud.com. At the end of the tour: take in all signs from their various locations by the first Monday evening at the latest. Dated signs are to be returned to your Region Manager within one week of the end of the tour. The sign with your studio number is yours to keep, unless you plan to not show with AOS the following year. Please update your number each year if it changes.

Yes. Find strategic locations for your three signs. If you live and show in two different areas, place your signs where you live.

Your presence is not required however it is highly desired. This is the planning meeting, an opportunity to be heard, to make suggestions, to consider changes.

You are expected to pick up brochures from your Region Manager in a timely manner, and are responsible for distributing 100 – 150 brochures.

No, There are five choices for days open during the registration process. They are: 1. Open all five days. 2. Open Four days: Saturday and Sunday of both weekends. 3. The first weekend only – Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 4. The first weekend only – Saturday and Sunday. 5. The second weekend only. However, a participating artist must be in their designated space all their selected days (10-5 on those dayes)

Region Managers:

Region 6: Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, Lebanon: Marjorie Vrabel – 860-331-1744 – marjorie.vrabel@gmail.com

Region 1: Stafford, Tolland, Union: Susi Byers – 338-0124 – pottingaround@gmail.com

Region 2: Ashford, Eastford, Willington, Chaplin: Steve Gerling – 860-463-7554 – segerling@snet.net

Region 3: Pomfret, Putnam, Thompson, Woodstock, N. Grosvenordale: Arrik Kim – 860-985-2998 – arrikkim@charter.net

Region 4: Danielson, Killingly, Plainfield, Sterling, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Hampton, Scotland: Alison Ciarlante – 914-204-9039 – sasapeacerocks@gmail.com

Region 5: Storrs, Mansfield, Willimantic, Windham: Blanche Serban – 860-280-2025 – blanche.serban@gmail.com

Visit this page for a detailed walkthrough on how to register for the tour.

Andover, Ashford, Bolton, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, Hampton, Hebron, Killingly, Lebanon, Mansfield, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Scotland, Stafford, Thompson, Tolland, Union, Willington, Windham, Woodstock, Sterling. This list is in our By-Laws.

If you live outside of the towns listed in the By-Laws, the only way you can participate is if you find a venue within these listed towns to show your works.

To join a group, you must have permission from the person in charge of that group. Contact Aline Hoffman at optmst@icloud.com for the updated list of available groups.

The fee to participate is $155.00. To have a web presence without participating in the tour: $100.00. Web presence means that you agree not to have your work on display to the public during the five days of the tour.

Sponsors are local businesses supporting local artists. We cannot accept galleries or other businesses that display original art unless the artist(s) are paid participants of the AOS tour.

Yes. Sponsors cannot be galleries or other places that show the work of artists who are not paid participants of the Artists Open Studio Tour.

You would click on “Sponsors” on the main menu. This brings you to all the information you would need. At the bottom of that page, you will find a downloadable form. If you do not have the ability to download that form, email Aline Hoffman at optmst@icloud.com to request this form.