19th Annual OPEN STUDIOS 2025
Saturday, November 7, 202610:00 AM
Sunday, November 8, 20265:00 PM
American Fabrics Arts
1069 Connecticut AvenueBridgeport, CT, 06607United States (map)
Step inside the legendary American Fabrics Arts Building and explore 30+ artists’ studios under one roof. From painting to textiles, sculpture to design—you’ll meet the makers, see their creative worlds, and snag one-of-a-kind art.
✨ What’s happening:
🎶 Live Music
🍪 Gourmet cookies by Rebel Daughter Cookies
🧥 Coat & Food Drive for Bridgeport Rescue Mission
🚌 Fun for the kids with Cartie Art Museum Bus
🎟️ Art Raffle benefiting Mercy Learning Center + Literacy Volunteers of Greater Bridgeport
💸 Many Studio Sales!
🐴 The Plastic Horse Rescue Tour with kHyal
📓 Build Your Own Notebook with Designer Journals
🥂 Opening Reception The Stairwell Space featuring a new show curated by Neptune in June
👩🎨 Participating Artists:
@milaartcrystals • @roxysavageart • @heidenart • @joanielandaudesigns • @suartsharp • @jay.petrow.abstract.art • @douglashealey • @janinebrownstudio • @KarlHeine • @DesignerJournals • @MegaGlamster • @ocheltreedesign • @dsquilts • @and_now_its_history • @ddutko • @imholly52 • @KellyLRossetti • @claire.444 • @lindacolletta • @brecmorgan • @jbarmstrongceramics • @flotobags • @judithcorrigan_ • @janetslom
Special thanks to Fairfield University Center for Arts & Minds @fairfieldquick 💙
Come for the art. Stay for the community. Leave inspired.
Attracted to the Flame
University of Bridgeport
Schelfhaudt Gallery
November-December 2026
For many art is an all consuming compulsion; to experience art, make art and design a life where art is a focus, demanding sacrifice and often engendering a bohemian lifestyle that is understood by fellow creatives and questioned by many others. The artists’ compulsion can be described as an ‘impractical practicality’. It is how creative empaths function, process and cope in a world full of conflict and unanswerable questions, like man’s inhumanity to man, and the big Why or How? Regardless of their views on these existential queries, artists are attracted to the flame of creativity, risking the conditions of the artists’ practice and lifestyle. The artistic pursuit, like a flame has the potential to create, forge, and destroy.
hosted byBridgeport Art Trail (BAT)
Upcoming - January 2026
UNITED
to be mounted in celebration of the reopening of renovated galleries in early 2026.
Additionally, a select group of complimentary works in porcelain that use multiples and various methods of mold making to examine issues of climate change, feminist thought and world peace.
More details to come soon.
Medici Museum of Art
9350 East Market St.
Warren, OH 44484
Hours:
Thursday - Sunday | 11am - 4pm
Closed on major holidays
(330) 856-2120