Galveston ArtWalk - August 2014

For over twenty five years, the Galveston Arts Center has produced ArtWalk on Saturday nights in the heart of the historic district. Now spreading to other parts of the island, ArtWalk occurs approximately every six weeks.

Not a street festival, ArtWalk takes place in existing commercial galleries, non-profit arts spaces and what are called "other walls," restaurants and retail stores, for example. Each exhibits art and welcomes viewers with open doors, later hours and refreshments. One of the Galveston Arts Center’s largest programs, ArtWalk, promotes visual art and artists, offers alternative places to see and learn about art and hopes to bring newcomers, as well as welcome return visitors to the art community on the island.

Incorporated in 1986, the Galveston Art Center (GAC) is as an independent nonprofit organization that presents pacesetting contemporary art in a historic building on Galveston’s Strand donated by the Junior League of Galveston County.