Please Join Us!
Hambidge Annual Open House
Saturday, April 26, 2025 -12-5pm
(FREE with Registration!)
Hambidge Center, 105 Hambidge Court, Rabun Gap GA 30568
FREE Admission with registration.
This event provides a unique opportunity to visit, tour, and enjoy the historic Hambidge campus. Festivities will include open studios, art-making, food, musical performances, art sales, and more.
Visit with the current artists-in-residence in their studios, including Josh Aronson, D. Pierre Baulos, Marina DeMarco, Maryam Kashani, Katrina DeMarcus Santiago, and Gavin Bernard. These dynamic artists include writers, photographers, filmmakers, and multidisciplinary artists from California, Washington, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, and Canada.
Join in art-making activities like U-Do-Raku (glaze your own pot and watch it be fired), corn gelee printmaking, cyanotypes with Michael Reese, a botanical illustration scavenger hunt, and more. The Weave Shed Gallery will once again offer pottery for sale.
Top photo courtesy of the artist. Bottom photos by Amanda Greene.
Enjoy live music by The Cornbread Ted Dynamite Duo performing a variety of high energy, old timey, vernacular musical styles and ivywav providing earthy and mild-tempered sounds with Neo-Soul, R&B and jazz influences. We will also have a puppet show by Rabun County artist Charlie Dingler and will finish out the day with a closing dance on the front lawn of Lucinda’s Rock House lead by Julie Stuart.
Find out more about the schedule, parking, the performers, and artists-in-residence here.
Come see our Barker’s Creek Grist Mill in action grinding grits and cornmeal. Enter our inaugural Cornbread Cook Off and see how your recipe measures up. We will be selling homemade chili and grits with all the toppings from our Great Grits Trike. For for cornbread cook off details and registration visit our guidelines.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
This year, we are honoring acclaimed artist and poet Laurence Holden, a longtime friend of Hambidge. A true renaissance man, his craft and wisdom seem to know no limits and includes serving as lead miller at Hambidge’s Barkers’ Creek Grist Mill. A special exhibition of his work will be on display in the Antinori Village and Hambidge stone ground grits and cornmeal will be celebrated in a wide variety of ways.
SUPPORT Hambidge by being a HOST or SPONSOR!
Hosts and Sponsors help underwrite the cost of opening the campus to the public for FREE to discover the artists, studios, historic buildings and natural wonders of Hambidge.
Sponsors of the Open House will receive various benefits, including inclusion in a Porch Stories gathering, 11am-Noon, at the new Antinori Village, providing a unique opportunity for engagement with other supporters and attendees. This event is a blend of meaningful tributes, creative exploration, and community engagement, making it a memorable experience for all involved.
Click HERE to learn more and support as a Host or Sponsor.
SPONSORS
Raku Sponsors
Sherry & Jeff Cohen + Lynn Pollard + Melissa Bunnen Jernigan & James Jernigan + Belinda & Ken Reusch
Village Sponsors
Liz Gillespie + LDG Accounting Services + Barb & Thom Williams
HOSTS
Suzanne Arpin + Arté GA + Fredrik & Jamie Brauer + Catherine & Kyle Caldwell + Louis Corrigan + Margaret & Dallas Denny + Didi Dunphy + Donald Durant + Brooks Franklin & Lisa Ezzard + Rick & Mary Beth Holcomb + Ann Johnson + Temme Barkin-Leeds & Steve Leeds + Bari & Russell Love + Helen Meadors & Craig Burkhalter + Peggy McBride + Margaret F. Patterson + Junco S. Pollack + Karin Schaller + Nancy Shaidnagle & Gene Luckey + Suzanne Shaw & Daniel Biddy + Brenda Stockdale, PhD & Michael G. Milton, MD + Kathy & David Williams + Woodie & Steve Wisebram
Gifts made in honor of Laurence Holden:
Sharon & Jim Alonso + Margaret F. Patterson + Karin Schaller
ANTINORI VILLAGE - FOR ROOM AVAILABILITY & RATES
PLEASE CONTACT kderryberry@hambidge.org
