Festivals
Site Festival 2025: Open Studios
Site Festival in Stroud (est. 1997) brings a range of exciting artist-led events this June 2025, and they’re inviting artists to take part.
Even if you're not based in Stroud there are a myriad of accessible ways to take part in the festival, plus discounts and a bursary.
Register before 14th February for Open Studios, and before 28th February for artist collectives.
The festival is open to anyone with an art practice in the Stroud District, or anyone who would like to base themselves here for Site Festival. We regularly collaborate with artists from surrounding areas such as Gloucester and Bristol, but have also had visiting artists from Berlin and much further. 29 years ago SVA launched Site Festival and Open Studios alongside the renovations of the building in John Street. Since then the festival has grown and evolved with the landscape of the Arts in the South West.
Open Studios as a concept has become an incredibly popular and accessible way to discover new artists and embed our communities. It celebrates the incredible diversity of creative talent that exists here in the valleys, supports artists making a living from their work and builds meaningful connections in the artistic community.
The word OPEN not only reflects the open studio door welcoming curious visitors to discover the wonderful world of the artist’s studio but also it reflects SVA’s OPENNESS to all artists of all backgrounds, ages, disciplines and experience. Open Studios is not selected and we welcome conversations with artists who may be held back in their practice.
There are a myriad of accessible ways to take part in the festival, and SVA continues to support emerging artists through discounts and a bursary. They have also been working with Cam & Dursley Creatives, plus Under the Edge Arts, to collaborate and connect our community more outside of the Stroud centre.
Although in recent years Open Studios has been more centred around Stroud town, we're very keen to invite more of our art community based in Cam, Dursley, Wotton-under-Edge and the rural spaces in between. So if you have a studio in Cam, Dursley, Wotton-under-Edge or in between get in touch for a 20% discount off registration fees.
Artists can take part in many different ways, and can register at sitefestival.org.uk between December 2024 and February 2025.
Image: Hannah O'Kelly, self portrait
Register before 14th February for Open Studios, and before 28th February for artist collectives.
The festival is open to anyone with an art practice in the Stroud District, or anyone who would like to base themselves here for Site Festival. We regularly collaborate with artists from surrounding areas such as Gloucester and Bristol, but have also had visiting artists from Berlin and much further. 29 years ago SVA launched Site Festival and Open Studios alongside the renovations of the building in John Street. Since then the festival has grown and evolved with the landscape of the Arts in the South West.
Open Studios as a concept has become an incredibly popular and accessible way to discover new artists and embed our communities. It celebrates the incredible diversity of creative talent that exists here in the valleys, supports artists making a living from their work and builds meaningful connections in the artistic community.
The word OPEN not only reflects the open studio door welcoming curious visitors to discover the wonderful world of the artist’s studio but also it reflects SVA’s OPENNESS to all artists of all backgrounds, ages, disciplines and experience. Open Studios is not selected and we welcome conversations with artists who may be held back in their practice.
There are a myriad of accessible ways to take part in the festival, and SVA continues to support emerging artists through discounts and a bursary. They have also been working with Cam & Dursley Creatives, plus Under the Edge Arts, to collaborate and connect our community more outside of the Stroud centre.
Although in recent years Open Studios has been more centred around Stroud town, we're very keen to invite more of our art community based in Cam, Dursley, Wotton-under-Edge and the rural spaces in between. So if you have a studio in Cam, Dursley, Wotton-under-Edge or in between get in touch for a 20% discount off registration fees.
Artists can take part in many different ways, and can register at sitefestival.org.uk between December 2024 and February 2025.
Image: Hannah O'Kelly, self portrait
