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Alden Gallery is a contemporary gallery in Provincetown's East End, founded in 2007, showing painting and sculpture by emerging and established artists — a roster that includes Larry R. Collins, Jane Paradise, Kevin Cyr, Alice Denison, and Mike Wright. Open year-round, with a May-through-October run of solo and group shows in an open, intimate space.
All Good Art Studio is a Plymouth, Cape Cod local business. A community favorite, rated 5★ on Google. A proud member of Cape Cod Certified.
An Aquinnah Cliffs gallery and gift shop featuring Martha's Vineyard prints, jewelry, and island-made art.
Egeli Gallery is "Art in the Heart of Provincetown" — a family gallery devoted to impressionist painting, showing work by Arthur, Lisa, Cedric, and Joanette Egeli alongside artists like John Clayton, Charles Couper, and Cape School master Henry Hensche. Light-filled canvases in the tradition Provincetown made famous.
Four Eleven Gallery is a founding member of the Provincetown Art Gallery Association, showing contemporary work by more than twenty artists including Valerie Isaacs, Helen Grimm, Liz Carney, Jay McDermott, and Paul Rizzo. A rotating schedule of exhibitions keeps the walls fresh all season on the east end of Commercial Street.
Where PLAY has NO age limit: O'playsis in Buzzards Bay is a collaborative art studio and creative playground rolled into one, with a Music Lounge, Art Bar, Game Wall, Kids Zone and the mascot Harlow roaming The Bus. Drop in for visual arts, performing arts, music and writing, book private events, or browse the gift shop stocked with local artisan work. A community-minded Cape Cod creative space for makers of every age.
Packard Gallery is the home of Provincetown's painting family — Anne Packard and her daughters Leslie and Cynthia, three distinct voices under one roof at 418 Commercial. Original canvases from minis to large-scale works, with prints available for collectors starting out.
Philip Celeste Gallery shows paintings by its namesake alongside a tight circle of artists including Pete Hocking, Laura Harvey, Caroline Carney, Michael Guy, and Dylan Hurwitz. A painter-run space in the East End gallery stretch of Commercial Street.
A fine-art gallery on Basin Road in Menemsha representing Martha's Vineyard and regional artists in a welcoming harborside space.
Simie Maryles Gallery represents "traditional art with a contemporary point of view" — twenty-two artists led by painter Simie Maryles herself, with names like Larry Preston, Marina Dieul, Todd M. Casey, and Roxie Munro on the walls. Classical craft, modern eye, open daily on Commercial Street.
The Christina Gallery is an Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard gallery — photographed and verified in person by Cape Cod Certified on our August 2026 island visit.
A Menemsha gallery showcasing handcrafted copperwork and art by Scott McDowell, in the heart of the fishing village on Martha's Vineyard.
Treadwell Gallery is photographer and artist Shann Treadwell's gallery in Provincetown's East End, at 397 Commercial Street. Treadwell is best known for his hand-collaged drag portraits, and his work also takes in portraiture, Provincetown portraits and live-music photography. Stop in while you're walking the gallery stretch of Commercial Street; pricing on the drag collages is available on request.
Benjamin McCormick's underwater-photography gallery in Menemsha, showcasing striking images from beneath Martha's Vineyard's waters.
Wellfleet Preservation Hall is the community arts and cultural center on Main Street, in the restored former Our Lady of Lourdes church. The restoration kept the tin ceilings, wood balcony and leaded glass windows, and the hall now hosts music, film, classes, art exhibits, literary events and private celebrations. Outside, a sloping garden of asters and perennials holds sculpture and outdoor art along the walkway up to the hall. Check the hall's calendar before you go, because most of the life here happens in the evenings and on weekends.
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