What’s On in Tasmania for the Arts and Crafts Lovers
Find out what’s on with our growing guide of Exhibitions, Open Studio Trails, Arts and Craft Retreats, Artist in Residence Programs, Workshops and Classes, Groups and Galleries, Markets and Fairs, and, of course, Artists who are part of Art Trails Tasmania!
You’ll find listed details with links to the artists, events and activities. The links can include their website, Facebook, Instagram and socials, artist pages on other platforms that the artist has provided us.
What you won’t find is us trying to maintain everybody else’s websites and socials. We want the information here kept as current as possible, to give you the opportunity to discover the fabulous creative and artist talent that Tasmania has to offer.
Join the Art Trails Tasmania Newsletter to stay up to date with What’s On, Artist Profile blog interviews, new members and more.
Being Listed
If you would like to join the Art Trails Tasmania family just pop over to the Member’s Hub and choose from one of the membership options.
See What’s On Across Tasmania
Just click on the images below to find out what is happening with various artists across the state.
Our Members’ Latest Events News from the Blog
Discover the artist led event news by our members with their exhibitions, openings, art trails, workshops and more! Join to day to have your event shared.
Grand Studio Opening at Lee-Anne Peters Ceramics
A grand studio opening is the perfect opportunity for a sneak peak behind the scenes of Lee-Anne Peters Ceramics studio in Campbell Town, the perfect rest spot between Hobart and Launceston for a healthy dose of inspiration.
Out of Hand Exhibition by Members of Stitching and Beyond
Get along to this inspiring textile arts exhibition by members of Stitching and Beyond Inc at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
Bay of Fires Seascape Workshop with John E Gibb
Come learn from one of Tasmania’s finest acrylic painters, John E Gibb, with his seascape painting workshop at Tin Dragon Art Retreat Cottages and stay in a beautiful location with wonderful food
Navigating Tasmania
To help you plan your explorations we look at Tasmania as nine regions as demonstrated in this map:
You can probably tell that I’m not a cartographer creating a very specific and accurate map. This map is meant to help you orientate yourself. If you’re planning a road trip arts holiday be sure to get hold of a good old fashion printed map of the state. Do not trust Google maps or the navigation maps in Tasmania as they’re renowned for taking people along unsafe narrow dirt tracks with little opportunity for chucking u- turns. And besides, folding out a map, having an explore is way more fun!
Why the 9 regions
For many visiting and touring Tasmania for the first time the discovery of the north/south divide doesn’t make sense, especially when they are thinking in terms of regions (based on how other states do this). So to help navigate this and to give greater support to our artists, Art Trails Tasmania is taking a more arts tourism approach.
North West
Central North – including Launceston
North East
West Coast
Central Tablelands
East Coast
The Islands: Bruny, Flinders and King Islands
Central South – including Hobart
South East
What’s On and Happening with Art Trails Tasmania Members
Art Trails Tasmania is a membership based program that is all about empowering, enabling, celebrating and sharing the amazing artists, makers, designers, performers, creators, artisans and crafters across this beloved state.
After a lot of careful consideration, asking and listening to our audience on the socials in the prelude to the launch of this site, the decision on how this artist led project would be funded became abundantly clear: memberships.
Initial thoughts included having Google ads but no one, including me, really liked that idea. Other optoins included selling ebooks and courses and going after grants and sponsorships.
While grants and sponsorships might still be on the table they are unreliable in many ways – time consuming to apply for and highly competitive.
While the ebooks, guides and programs fit much better as they are about sharing skills, inspiration and connections. So you’ll find a growing library of them in the Resources area.
As for membership, it just made the most sense. It creates a family and shares the collective and individual stories.
To find out more about our membership options click here for the Member’s Hub.
A big thank you to everyone who helped answer my website build questions on Facebook and Instagram, your comments and messages helped a great deal with clarity and understanding how to make this site sing for you!