276 Best Places to Shop in USA

This multimedia gallery brings a stark and fresh perspective to the Maui art community with a well-curated selection of contemporary photography, sculptures, ceramics, and paintings by international, mainland, and local artists. The gallery regularly hosts events and classes, too.

With more than 40 years in business, Colorado's largest antique print and map dealer is the place to go if you're looking for rare maps or historic photos of Colorado. Framing and puzzles are also available.

In this tiny yet inviting gallery, you'll find a selection of interesting jewelry, ceramics, artwork, and carvings hand-picked by the owner, a Czech-born artist.

Be sure to check out Arts Prescott, a cooperative gallery of talented local artisans.

This modern gallery, founded in 1994, helped establish Aspen as a destination for collectors and art buyers. The iconic gallery specializes in contemporary art and is a must for art lovers on a visit to Aspen.

This fine-art gallery in a beautifully restored building features the work of local, national, and international artists. The gallery is usually only open Friday to Sunday.

Nearly every month brings a compelling new contemporary American artist exhibition at this longtime gallery standout near SFMOMA. Peter Halley, Bruce Cohen, and Isca Greenfield-Sanders are among the recent notable artists on display, but sometimes an exhibition provides a young artist an opportunity here for their solo debut. It's worth keeping track of the gallery's schedule for any talks by the exhibition's featured artist.

This gallery sells 19th- through 21st-century Maine and New England landscapes and seascapes by nationally recognized and emerging artists who work in a variety of media. It also carries the proprietor's own photography.

Tucked among dozens of art studios in the artsy SoWa (South of Washington) area, this artist-run, members-only gallery mounts monthly shows featuring contemporary art in all forms, including printmaking, video, acrylic, ink drawing, and pastels.

Inside the Star Building (1900), this gallery exhibits contemporary American, European, and Latin American paintings and sculptures.

Located in an 1889 train depot, the Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery showcases paintings and sculptures by Western artists.

Locally owned and operated, this gallery sells artworks, craft items, and other creations—from sculptures to fossilized ivory bracelets to children's books—created by Alaskans.

Lee Godie, Henry Darger, Bill Traylor, and Joseph Yoakum are among the outsider and self-taught artists whose work is shown at this gallery.

This art gallery and shop focuses on upscale crafts, glass and metal work, and fine art by regional artists of every genre. You'll find pottery (it's owned by a local potter), jewelry, wood carvings, and all manner of paintings and prints.

Although nationally known artists—like Masami Teraoka and Ana Teresa Fernández—display their modern sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installation artwork here, emerging Bay Area artists get a spotlight, too. The gallery's BOXBLUR space showcases contemporary art both in visual exhibitions and performances.

Original paintings of flowers, dragonflies, sticks, stones, skulls, bones, and other scenes from nature are for sale at the Cathy Weber–Artmaker studio.

This public gallery at Providence's private Wheeler School exhibits works from Rhode Island's extensive population of local artists, including past and current attendees of the nearby Rhode Island School of Design. Attached to Wheeler's library, the gallery features winners from about a half-dozen juried art shows it sponsors annually, in a variety of media.

The large selection of works for sale in this gallery, established in 1937, includes paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture from the 1500s to the present. For a special memento with more weight than a Red Sox hat, pick out a piece from the gallery's impressive collection of Boston expressionism and Boston School impressionism art.

This local artists' cooperative exhibits and sells crafts, jewelry, and fine art.

This gallery gives under-exhibited artists well-deserved honorariums along with a platform to showcase their artworks, which range from painting and sculpture to video and installation. With five major exhibitions each year, there’s always something fresh on view here, and visitors can enjoy artist talks with local makers nearly every Saturday.

The Coleman Gallery and Studio features works by photographer Merv Coleman. Natural scenery and wildlife are his specialties.

This longtime co-op gallery is packed with art in various mediums, jewelry, paintings, sculpture, fiber, clay, and glass art. It also hosts an art festival every year around Labor Day.

After more than a century, this nonprofit membership organization continues to present the works of well-known and aspiring New England artists, as well as out-of-town and foreign members. Styles of artists range from traditional and academic realists to contemporary and abstract painters, photographers, and sculptors. Each year, the gallery hosts between 15 and 20 exhibitions, occasionally off-site in such locations as the Langham Hotel and Harbor Towers.

Set in a lovingly renovated Craftsman bungalow, this gallery offers a variety of wares created by both local and national artists and craftspeople. Toward the back is a small café where you can order a wrap or bowl of soup and a craft beer or espresso drink; the large front porch, which faces Central Avenue, is a great place to people-watch while you snack. Occasionally, the gallery hosts concerts by touring musicians.

Authentic Northwest Coast art is the specialty at this crowded gallery run by local Tsimshian artist Ken Decker and his wife. Decker's work includes dance paddles, drums, and bentwood boxes featuring formline ravens, eagles, bears, and salmon.

Hugging the road on the way to West Quoddy Head Light, this gallery in an old clapboard building is well worth a stop, showcasing works by top-tier artists from the farthest reaches of Down East. Hand-carved pottery, paintings, jewelry, and prints are among the offerings. Don't miss the views of the saltwater marsh out back.

What started as a print workshop in 1962 now includes studios as well as a large, airy gallery displaying etchings, intaglios, engravings, and aquatints by local and internationally renowned artists.

With working studios and exhibits by about a dozen artists, CURVE Studios displays ceramics, textiles, jewelry, sculpture, and furniture in three storefronts.

This unassuming, two-story space focuses on contemporary painting and sculpture. The gallery is often used as a venue for performance art and poetry readings as well. 

You'll find bronze sculptures of horses, wildlife, and cowboys by this internationally known artist. Western-theme paintings and Navajo weavings also are displayed.