Thanks so very much Debra for your in depth description of an Open Studio. I sure will be searching for such a place. We are very rural here and the closest art store is 2 hours away and that would be a Michaels and maybe one other and the 2 hours in within another state.
You mentioned something that rang a bell.. Maybe I can spur a meeting with our local community college and see if there could ever be such arrangements. Also, we have Carnegie Hall ( one of the 4, I think 4 only) in our local town. It considers all the arts. Let me just mention that Friday at Carnegie I saw the most wonderful full length play written by LEONARD NIMOY titled Vincent. A one-man play about Van Gogh starring a wonderfully talented actor named Jim Jarrett. If you wish to check him out, it is at
www.jarrettproductions.com, an awesome emotional play of the letters to Theo.
Thanks again.