On Saturday December 16, local Gippsland artists can be found working across the Warragul CBD. Follow the dots on the map to visit each creative.
The streets of Warragul will become temporary art studios on Saturday when Baw Baw Shire artists take part in the first "Art in the Street" event.
Between 9am to 1pm, about 32 local artists will set up their stations around the streets of Warragul and create pieces of work for the public to observe.
Event organiser, Bronwyn Pearson said the event was dedicated to artists in the shire.
"They're all artists local to the Baw Baw Shire," Bronwyn said. "We reached out to different artists and went to different art groups, like the Baw Baw Arts Alliance and the Creative Yarragon Art Group and the word trickled out to lots of people."
Bronwyn said the motivation behind creating the Art in the Street event was a desire to showcase and promote local Baw Baw creatives.
"Back in March I visited Yarram, and I stumbled across this chalk mural work left over from Yarram Chalk Art Festival," she said. "I thought that we should have something like that in our area. When I came back and spoke to various artists about my idea, they were all very encouraging. We decided to keep it local and celebrate the work of our local artists."
People in town during the event are invited to visit the artists' stations and watch as they work.
"For people out and about in the town on December 16, they can expect to see artists creating artworks in a wide range of mediums," Bronwyn said. "They'll be dotted around the main triangle of streets, around Civic Park and near the library."
Rather than creating works on the streets, the artists will be creating work in the street which can be viewed at an exhibition at the West Gippsland Arts Centre in March 2024.
"There'll be watercolours, paintings, a mural artist, beading, acrylic works, a whole variety of different art forms," Bronwyn said.
Art in the Street is the first event of its kind in the shire. Bronwyn said she hoped the event was well received by the community.
"There are events in the area that help to expose local artists to the community, like Open Studios West Gippsland and Creative Harvest," Bronwyn said. "Those events require the public to be motivated and attend the events, whereas this one will be right there in the streets. We're hoping it will become an annual event."
