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Art in the Open Festival 2014 - starting next week.

Event Details

Time: July 28, 2014 to August 4, 2014
Location: 7 Paint-outs each a short distance from Wexford
City/Town: Wexford, Ireland.
Website or Map: http://www.artintheopen.org
Phone: 053 9122019
Event Type: plein, air, festival
Organized By: Art in the Open Committee
Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2014

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Event Description

Ireland's Art in the Open is Europe's largest plein air event with up to 200 artists and 7 days of paint-outs, each to a different location a short ride from our festival base in Wexford.

Locations include rolling Irish landscape, rivers and beaches, fishing harbours, market towns, castles and gardens. There are demonstrations and hands-on workshops with top artists in various media. Evenings include lectures and social activities - plenty opportunity to meet other artists from Ireland, Europe and USA. Maybe even a pub with Guinness and music. There is also an exhibition with awards and a quick-draw event.

The event is open (ie. not juried) and booking is available online from mid-February.( http://www.artintheopen.org )

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Comment by Etain Feeley on July 12, 2014 at 22:35: @ Tony,I agree with you, totally on this one, I notice however that there are some self contained apartments in Wexford for very good prices, but I would imagine that they would fill up very quickly, so early booking would be recommended.

Comment by Tony Robinson on July 12, 2014 at 21:22: The barter system looks like it could be really interesting for the future. Sadly, the organisation is finding it hard to get locals to offer artists a bed for the week. Of course, this is easier to achieve in places where the local plein air festival is limited to 40 or so selected professionals. In these circumstances, the guest artist will gift a small painting to the host family. Here, where we have 200 artists, both amateurs and professionals, it is not so easy. It is never going to be possible to host-house everyone but finding available accommodation at reasonable rates, in high season, especially for single occcupancy is a problem and prevents even more people from attending Art in the Open.

Comment by Etain Feeley on July 12, 2014 at 9:58: I would love to attend this, but sadly it looks like it would be 2015 before I can make it. Noticed someone's suggestion re offering certain skills in return for accomodation, sounds like a good idea. I can in particular, offer the following basic marbeling classes and a self catering accommodation swap in the south of Ireland.

Comment by Plein Eire Administrator on April 18, 2014 at 11:42: Art in the Open 2014:Look who's comiing...Are you registered yet?

Comment by Plein Eire Administrator on April 18, 2014 at 10:47: Want to get an idea about what visitors think of Art in the Open? Here is a link to loads of stuff from last year's 2013 festival.

Comment by Cinnie Moran on February 8, 2014 at 23:51: I will attend AITO 2014 and look forward to it enormously. Last year was simply fantastic.

Comment by Dot Courson on February 8, 2014 at 4:32: Looking forward to this event: painting, making friends and visiting beautiful Ireland!

Comment by Catherine Considine on January 15, 2014 at 21:12: Hope to make it.

Comment by Tony Robinson on January 13, 2014 at 21:04: Hey David, me too. See you there!

Comment by David Diaz on January 13, 2014 at 20:21: Looking forward already--ready to visit some favorite places and new ones, and meet up and chat with some great friends