8 shops · 5 districts
The Gallery Edit.
Eight shops for galleries and art shops you can walk into, across 5 parts of DC: Dupont Circle, Union Market, Eastern Market, Old Town and Penn Quarter. Picked from the 286 shops we list, one location each.
- 1Galleries · Dupont CircleStudio GalleryContemporary art gallery on R Street's gallery row west of the circle, with rotating exhibitions; private consultations available by appointment.
- 2Galleries · Dupont CircleAlex GalleryFounded in 1985, Alex Gallery and its sister space Gallery A are Dupont's longest-running galleries, showing international contemporary painters and sculptors on R Street.
- 3Galleries · Dupont CircleVika GalleryLower-level art gallery at Connecticut Avenue and R Street, just north of the circle, and a regular stop on the Dupont Circle BID's monthly First Friday ArtWalk.
- 4Galleries · Union MarketChela Mitchell GalleryContemporary fine art and design gallery founded in 2021 by art advisor Chela Mitchell, with rotating shows focused on distinctive and culturally rooted voices.
- 5Galleries · Eastern MarketEastern Market PotteryPottery studio founded in 1963 inside the market building and back since 2009 after the 2007 fire.
- 6Galleries · Old TownTorpedo Factory Art CenterWaterfront art center of working artists' studios and galleries, where you buy one-of-a-kind pieces from the makers, including Dejan Studio Jewelry and GalleriaGeorgiAna.
- 7Gifts · Penn QuarterSAAM & National Portrait Gallery Museum StoreShared museum store on the first floor by the G Street lobby, selling exhibition catalogues, artist-designed jewelry and scarves, posters, art and his
- 8Galleries · Dupont CircleIA&A at HillyerNonprofit gallery in the alley behind The Phillips Collection, run by International Arts & Artists, opening new shows each First Friday; free, with a
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