20th Annual OPEN STUDIOS 2026
Nov
7
to Nov 8

20th Annual OPEN STUDIOS 2026

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The 20th Annual Open Studios at AmFab is back! 🎉

📍 1069 Connecticut Ave, Bridgeport, CT
🗓️ Sat & Sun | Nov 7 + 8, 2025 | 10–5pm
🌐 www.amfabarts.com | @amfabarts

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
🧥 Coat & Food Drive for Bridgeport Rescue Mission
🚌 Fun for the kids with Cartie Art Museum Bus
🎟️ Art Raffle benefiting Mercy Learning Center + Bridgeport Rescue Mission +Cartie Art Museum Bus
💸 Studio Sales Galore!
📓 Build Your Own Notebook with Designer Journals
💫 Joy mapping with color with Katie Southworth
🏷️ Tag sale at Ulla Surland Studio
🍄 Make a Sticker with Thanks Dad!
🥂 Opening Reception The Stairwell Space featuring a new show curated by BravinLee

👩‍🎨 Participating Artists:
@milaartcrystals • @roxysavageart • @ryanscailsstudio • @shootswiftly_ • @suartsharp • @jay.petrow.abstract.art • @shopthanksdad • @douglashealey • @janinebrownstudio • @KarlHeine • @DesignerJournals • @MegaGlamster • @messanotteobscura • @cfrestorationandfabrication • @ocheltreedesign • @katiesouthworth_art • @judithcorrigan_ • @ddutko • @imholly52 • @KellyLRossetti • @claire.444 • @lindacolletta • @and_now_its_history • @brecmorgan • @jbarmstrongceramics • @janetslom

Come for the art. Stay for the community. Leave inspired.

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Signs of The Times
Apr
22
6:00 PM18:00

Signs of The Times

Signs of the Times - Solo Exhibition of kHyal
April 8 – May 31, 2026
Reception & Artist Talk: April 22, 6–8 PM
The Westport Library, Sheffer Gallery • Westport, CT
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The Westport Library presents a solo exhibition by environmental artist and activist kHyal, exploring themes of climate and advocacy.

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Interwoven Perceptions
Apr
18
4:00 PM16:00

Interwoven Perceptions

The Stairwell Space presents:
Interwoven Perceptions
Opening Reception: April 18, 2026, 4–6 PM
Show Run: April 18 – May 29th, 2026
The Stairwell Space • Bridgeport, CT
RSVP Encouraged!

Interwoven Perceptions brings together artists working with pattern, structure, and layered systems of making. Through interlacing forms, open structures, and detailed mark-making, the exhibition explores how accumulation and precision generate rhythm, space, and meaning. A participatory performance, A Sentence to Be Woven by Jacqueline Herranz Brooks, will begin at 4:30 PM during the opening.

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The Stairwell Space - Grand Opening
Nov
7
to Nov 10

The Stairwell Space - Grand Opening

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The Stairwell Space will kick off with its inaugural exhibition, “I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like,” during the 2024 Bridgeport Art Trail, with a reception on November 7th from 6-8pm and gallery hours from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10. The exhibition will be open for public educational programs or by appointment through Sunday, December 15, 2024.

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Save The Date! Open Studios 2023
Nov
11
to Nov 12

Save The Date! Open Studios 2023

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Mark your calendars...
Open Studios 2023 is almost here!

We have so great things planned...studio sales, raffles, food trucks, WPKN spinning vinyls, live musicians, tag sales and of course... Art, Design and Studios! Please share this email with your art lover friends & family and help us make this our best year ever. All are welcome. 

Saturday & Sunday
November 11 & 12
10am - 5pm 

See you soon! 
The AmFab Artists & Creatives

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You're Invited: Open Studios 2021
Nov
13
to Nov 14

You're Invited: Open Studios 2021

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Connect + Collect

Sat, Nov. 13th & Sun, Nov. 14th from 10am to 5pm

The 16th annual AmFab’s Open Studio Weekend is part of a city-wide event hosted by Bridgeport Art Trail, the region’s premiere platform for local talent discovery. The artists of American Fabric Arts Building proudly invite you to tour their studio space! A former textile factory, the “AmFab” Arts Building is filled with skillful artists of all kinds within their respective modalities.

 Open Studios only comes once a year! Take hold of this opportunity to meet painters, sculptors, bookmakers, quilt makers, printmakers, ceramic artists, photographers, and more at AmFab’s two-day artisan spectacular!

You’ll be amazed by what you discover at AMFAB Open Studios:

  • Meet the artists and tour their studios!

  • Enjoy captivating art, live music & more!

  • Purchase art, home decor, jewelry, accessories, and other handmade items, directly from the artists.

  • Enter a raffle to benefit our neighbors, the Bridgeport Rescue Mission, which helps the hungry, homeless and fights addiction in Fairfield County.  PLUS, bring a non-perishable food item or coat to support our food and coat drive!

  • WPKN record sale

  • Beer tastings hosted by Berlinetta Brewing

  • To continue to adhere to CDC guidelines, Masks AND proof of vaccination will be required in the building fr anyone over the age of 12. Masks will be provided at the welcome tables. 

Mark your calendars for: Sat, Nov. 13th & Sun, Nov. 14th from 10am to 5pm

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You're Invited: Open Studios 2020
Nov
5
to Nov 8

You're Invited: Open Studios 2020

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Now in its 15th year, AmFab’s Open Studio Weekend is part of a city-wide event hosted by Bridgeport Art Trail— the region’s premiere platform for local talent discovery. As honored participants of Open Studio Weekend, the artists of American Fabrics Arts Building proudly invite you to take part in AmFab Open Studios 2020!

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You're Invited: Open Studios 2019!
Nov
9
to Nov 10

You're Invited: Open Studios 2019!

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Now in its 14th year, AmFab’s Open Studio Weekend is part of a city-wide event hosted by Bridgeport Art Trail, the region’s premiere platform for local talent discovery. As honored participants of Open Studio Weekend, the artists of American Fabric Arts Building proudly invite you to tour their studio space in 2019! A former textile factory, the “AmFab” Arts Building is bursting with practicing artists and skilled craftsmen and craftswomen within their respective modalities.

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"AMFAB Rhythms"
Jan
21
to Mar 2

"AMFAB Rhythms"

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The Schelfhaudt Gallery at the University of Bridgeport is celebrating the AMFAB artists this winter with the show, Rhythms. AMFAB Rhythms will include works by more than 18 artists from the AMFAB studios. Expansive in scope, the show will showcase photography, sculpture, painting, installation and mixed media. This diverse group of artists creates a unique blend of art that promotes collaboration and inspiration.

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You're Invited: Open Studios 2018!
Nov
10
to Nov 11

You're Invited: Open Studios 2018!

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Annual Open Studios event is part of Bridgeport’s Art Trail, the region’s premiere platform for discovering local talent. Every year, the Art Trail hosts a city-wide open studios event which the American Fabrics Building artists are proud to participate. You are invited to tour the studio space of more than 25 practicing artists during Open Studios weekend on November 10th and 11th. The artists who work in the former textile factory practice a variety of art forms. You will meet painters, sculptors, bookmakers, quilt makers  printmakers, ceramic artists, photographers, and more. Come and see what you discover!

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Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong | Of Art and Craft
Nov
13
to Nov 28

Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong | Of Art and Craft

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What defines Craft versus Art – and does that division have meaning? Nine artists display creations of glass, clay and fiber, substances traditionally considered “craft materials,” but worked with such talent, imagination, and skill that the resulting pieces are unquestionably works of art. 

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BE A BODY Screening at the Bijou | Crystal Heiden & Christine Negus
Nov
11
6:30 PM18:30

BE A BODY Screening at the Bijou | Crystal Heiden & Christine Negus

BE A BODY. or its doppelgänger. [There is power in numbers.] is unabashedly self-centred and unapologetically self-conscious. Through an intersectional lens, artists Crystal Heiden (American Fabrics) and Christine Negus (London, Canada) present a screening of contemporary, international video works that use “The Mirror Machine” as a feminist tool. With a focus on identity construction and reflection, the camera is used to navigate ideas of selfhood. Putting performance at the forefront, these works reframe femme self-portraiture as not simply “The Aesthetics of Narcissism” but intrinsic to self-perception and preservation. As a whole the program sings “ME, MYSELF, AND I” at the top of its lungs, and invites you to do the same.

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Open Studios 2017!
Nov
11
to Nov 12

Open Studios 2017!

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Annual Open Studios event is part of Bridgeport’s Art Trail, the region’s premiere platform for discovering local talent. Every year, the Art Trail hosts a city-wide open studios event which the American Fabrics Building artists are proud to participate. You are invited to tour the studio space of more than 25 practicing artists during Open Studios weekend on November 11th and 12th. The artists who work in the former textile factory practice a variety of art forms. You will meet painters, sculptors, bookmakers, quilt makers  printmakers, ceramic artists, photographers, and more. Come and see what you discover!

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Hans Neleman | Is Embracing Was
Sep
6
to Oct 7

Hans Neleman | Is Embracing Was

Anita Rogers Gallery is pleased to present Is Embracing Was, an exhibition of mixed media assemblages by Dutch-born artist, Hans Neleman. The exhibition will be on view September 6 – October 7, 2017 at the gallery’s new location at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor, New York, New York.

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Lesley Koenig | Splishes, Drips and Splatters Reflections on Spontaneous Interactions
Aug
8
to Sep 11

Lesley Koenig | Splishes, Drips and Splatters Reflections on Spontaneous Interactions

  • 471 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877 United States (map)
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Aug 8-Sept. 11, 2017
Reception: Fri. Aug 11, 5:30-8 PM
471 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877

This exhibition is about communicating the myriad layers of emotions connected with the process of creating. With the power of color and texture on a two dimensional plane, the artist has created a visual metaphor for life’s many dichotomies. Lesley looks forward to your visiting the gallery to explore and enjoy these works for yourself.

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