2025 Open House

April 26, 2025, 12-5pm

At the Hambidge Center, 105 Hambidge Court, Rabun Gap GA 30568
FREE Admission with registration. Note: There is a small charge on site for food & drink and U-Do-Raku.

Save the date for our 2025 spring Open House! This annual event provides a free opportunity to visit, tour, and enjoy the Hambidge campus. Festivities will include open studios, art-making, food, musical performances, art sales, and more. More details to come.

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
This year, we’re acknowledging and celebrating Gristmill volunteer Laurence Holden, a longtime friend of Hambidge, for his dedicated service.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Sponsors

Raku Sponsors
Lynn Pollard

Hosts

Suzanne Arpin + Brooks Franklin & Lisa Ezzard + Temme Barkin-Leeds & Steve Leeds + Helen Meadors & Craig Burkhalter + Peggy McBride + Woodie & Steve Wisebram

We invite you to support Hambidge by being a Host or Sponsor of the Open House! Hosts and Sponsors help underwrite the cost of opening the campus to the public for FREE to discover the artists, studios, historic buildings and natural wonders of Hambidge. Click HERE to join as a Host or Sponsor.

Live Music Performers

The Cornbread Ted Dynamite Duo

The Cornbread Ted Dynamite Duo performs a variety of high energy, old timey, vernacular musical styles that includes old time banjo tunes, ragtime, country blues, and jug band songs. The Duo performs their unique brand of music across the mountain region of North Georgia and Western North Carolina.

“Cornbread Ted” aka Ted Whisenhunt- vocals, banjo, mandolin, guitar, blues harp, kazoo

Ted Whisenhunt has been performing old time roots music across the Southeast for over 25 years with a variety of bands including (Wolfcat Jones Trio, Kudzu String Band, Georgia Hellbenders, and Cornbread Ted & the Butterbeans.) Off stage, Ted is an Artist, and Professor of Art and Design, at Young Harris College. Ted’s artwork is often inspired by Appalachia and connects to the style of music that he performs.

“Dead Eye Dick” aka Richard Knepp- guitar, resonator slide guitar, vocals

Dr. Richard Knepp is classically trained musician and guitar teacher, who can be found teaching students, young and old, from across the North Georgia. He regularly performs classical guitar recitals at colleges, universities, and other venues across the Southeast.  Knepp is also an Instructor of Music at Young Harris College where he teaches guitar, music theory, and the very popular course “The History of Rock N Roll.”

Residents

Our current artists-in-residence will be their studios 1-4pm for the Studio Tour.