SWARM

The Fine Arts League of Cary is excited to launch, in September 2025, a new art making event called SWARM. SWARM will be an annual art making event for regional plein air and studio artists and will also engage the public in art making projects. While many arts festivals focus on selling art to the public, SWARM will instead be designed to highlight and empower the creative process. With arts education in schools becoming more impoverished every day, the general public has less exposure to the acts of making art. SWARM will bring the important work of making art to the public, with the intent of informing, inspiring and delighting. For four days in September, the public will be invited to interact with artists creating work ‘en plein air’ as well as in studio. Community engagement projects will be structured to include the public in making art, resulting in works that will be on display in the community. SWARM will culminate in a public exhibition of artists’ works, along with a celebratory and ceremony all open to the public.