The Galveston Art League Gallery, 2117A Postoffice St. in Galveston, has dozens of 2-D works offered for sale along with jewelry, sculpture, and other 3-D pieces. During the coronavirus crisis, the gallery’s hours will be cut back in accordance with the availability of volunteers to staff it.
Galveston Art League trims schedule of activities
Following best practices during the coronavirus pandemic, the Galveston Art League is altering its normal hours and events. The league will resume full activities as soon as the highly contagious illness abates.
The Art League has canceled workshops and trips that were to have been held in late March and throughout April.
The league’s gallery, 2117A Postoffice St. in downtown Galveston, has cut back its times of operation. Normally the gallery has hours of noon to 6:00pm from Thursday through Sunday. For the time being, however, the Art League will trim that schedule based on the day-to-day availability of volunteers who staff the gallery.
If you plan to visit the gallery and want to learn beforehand if it will be open, please call 409-621-1008 during its usual business hours. At present the gallery has 100-plus artworks on display—an array of paintings, photography, mixed-media works, sculpture, and jewelry.
The nonprofit Galveston Art League, founded in 1914 to promote visual arts, is run 100 percent by volunteers and has never had a salaried employee on staff. Art League funding is derived primarily from an annual fall gala as well as tax-deductible donations and tax-deductible membership fees (details: click on “Join” at GalvestonArtLeague.com).
Benefits to the league’s membership, which is composed of non-artists and artists, include a reduced fee for displaying work in the gallery and invitations to monthly member-only preview parties. Members also are the first to learn about—and be able to sign up for—league-sponsored trips and workshops.
In furthering its goal of promoting art and art education in the greater Galveston County area, the Art League hosts reasonably priced (sometimes free) workshops for adults and kids, low-cost children’s summer camps (with scholarships), judged art competitions, and art exhibits that last roughly a month before being changed out. In addition, the Art League publicizes local artists and stays open late during Galveston’s nine annual ArtWalks.
