The Essex Art Association, a non-profit gallery located at 10 North Main Street, has been serving local artists since 1946. Located in a historic, unheated building, the gallery is seasonal but very active during the summer months. The association was founded as a place for artists to share and sell their work. This practice has continued and EAA is known Read more...

Melanie Carr Gallery is a hybrid, collaborative space — it’s an artist-run studio, (Carr works in the backroom), with a dynamic exhibition space for contemporary, internationally based artists. In addition to continuous and one-off workshops and performances, this creative space offers flat files containing affordable works on paper by various contemporary artists. Carr also provides advisory services for artists and Read more...

Spectrum Art Gallery in Essex, CT opened April 2014, an addition to the Arts Center Killingworth, a non-profit arts organization founded in 2003, serving the Connecticut shoreline and river valley from New Haven to Hartford, including Madison, Guilford, Chester and Old Saybrook. Spectrum showcases regional and national artists and artisans, both emerging and established. In addition to presenting painting, sculpture, Read more...