2025 Press Release

The Art Drive 2025 – August 1, 2, 3 – 10am-5pm

Dartmouth & Westport, MA
www.the-art-drive.com
Fri-Sun, 10-5, Aug 1-3
Contact: theartdrivema@gmail.com

Nestled in the scenic and winding roads of Dartmouth and Westport, Massachusetts, are the studios of some of the region’s finest artists. From 10 am-5 pm on August 1st-3rd, Art Drive artists will open their creative spaces to the community. This annual tour showcases professional works created by some of the area’s premier painters, ceramic artists, photographers, jewelers, fiber artists, and woodworkers. Our artists members offer new work that results from a year’s worth of creative explorations.

It is a weekend for conversation, questions, and an opportunity to see the tools and inspirations that drive an artist’s process. Every studio is unique. Several artists will be offering demonstrations throughout the weekend.

Art lovers and collectors alike will enjoy a great day trip or weekend escape while touring the historic and picturesque South Coast towns of Dartmouth and Westport, MA. With only fifteen miles between the Art Drive studios, you will have plenty of time for picnic lunches, ice cream, or meals in one of the area’s restaurants.

This year, the Art Drive’s 17th, we are excited to partner with the Buzzards Bay Coalition. The juried artists on our tour, located throughout Dartmouth and Westport, are honored to lend their creativity and spirit to the Coalition’s efforts to preserve and protect our priceless salt marshes — which you will see all around you as you visit artists on the tour!

From June 28th through August 3rd, stop in at Adriance Furniture Makers, 288 Gulf Road, Dartmouth, where the showroom will feature artworks illustrating the beauty of our salt marshes by our members, and past members Frank McCoy, Dora Atwater Milliken and Deborah Ehrens. All artwork is for sale with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Buzzards Bay Coalition.

Also available for purchase will be the Coalition’s beautiful new reprint of John and Mildred Teal’s landmark book on the rich and varied marshes of our shores, Life and Death of the Salt Marsh. 

We extend our thanks and appreciation to all our sponsors and supporters which include studioDSK and Servedwell Hospitality.You can view the full list online and in our brochures.

Please visit us online at www.the-art-drive.com for a list of this year’s participating artists. Email theartdrivema@gmail.com with any questions.