FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8/22/2026
CONTACT: Susan Duprey, JPAC Executive Director, coordinator@jpopenstudios.com
Jamaica Plain, MA —On Sept. 26-27, from 11am-6 pm (Saturday) and 11am-6pm (Sunday), Jamaica Plain Open Studios (JPOS) returns! Organized by the Jamaica Plain Arts Council, JP Open Studios has been taking place annually for more than 30 years. JPOS offers a forum for artists, arts supporters, and local businesses to interact and make connections, to enhance and enrich appreciation of artists’ studios and their work.
This year’s event will showcase over 200 artists at more than 60 sites across the neighborhood. During this free, community-centered weekend, the art-loving public can meet artists, experience their studios, and enjoy and purchase artwork directly. Interactive maps of artist sites can be found at www.jpopenstudios.com. Physical copies can be found at the information booth at JP Licks (659 Centre St.) as well as local businesses.
In 2026, JPOS will feature work in traditional mediums such as paint, ceramics, prints, sculpture, and photographs, but will also include textile and paper artists, clothing designers, woodcarvers, ironworkers, jewelers, and more. Visitors will be welcomed into artists’ studio spaces, plus group sites throughout JP including Curtis Hall Community Center, the Loring Greenough House, The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Stonybrook Metal Arts and Sculpture School, and two churches. Several local businesses, such as Tonino restaurant, Pondside Dental, and Focus Real Estate, not only sponsor the JPOS event, but will also host artists’ work in their spaces.
With the coalescence of a plethora of artists near the Stonybrook MBTA stop, JPOS has brought back the Brewery as an official JPOS Group Site featuring 15+ artists, making it one of the must-see areas of the event this year. A range of artists will be presenting. Gena Mavuli, who launched JP Clay and a group show in a 2200 square foot space at the Brewery complex last year, will also host the new group site. “Spaces like this get activated organically when there are already people involved in the arts. It promises to be lots of fun!” says Mavuli.
For example at the Brewery: Nimita Dave will show drawings she calls “Sacred Lines”–contemporary interpretations of the ancient Madhubani (Mithila) painting tradition. Jen Gubicza creates soft sculptures and imagery that represent bold, tactile, characters filled with heart, humor. An artist showing at Stonybrook Metal Arts, Farley Sullivan, will share decorative and practical objects in ceramic, wood,and steel, with a clean and elegant aesthetic inspired by nature.