In the Fall of 1999, a small group of local artists and supporters came together with a need for community and a wish to create an exhibit space for their art. The Cooperative Gallery 213 on State Street was formed in 2000.

25 years later, Cooperative Gallery 213 remains a self-supporting institution, financed, staffed and maintained by members who donate their time, hammers and mops, and vast creative energies.


Figures Wrapped in Patterns

October 2nd -  October 24th
Ken Weir

‘Where do I go from here?’, is what I asked myself after my last show and the success of ‘Girl in a Blue Scarf’. That painting completely merged the background with the foreground. It had been a thought outside of the box. I had had Bridget, my model, hold different patterned fabric bolts across her… read more

Airing Dirty Laundry

October 2nd -  October 24th
Chelsea Hagin

This show is an act of exposure. Through pyrography and mixed media, Chelsea Hagin reveals the messy path of navigating love, relationships, and sexuality after a childhood she once romanticized was revealed to be shaped by normalized trauma and the shadow of addiction, abuse, and abandonment. Through memory, vulnerability, humor, desire, and confession, she uses… read more

Upcoming Events

Sunday, October 18th12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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