C'ville Arts Cooperative Gallery

Our beautiful storefront gallery space is home to more than 50 artist members from across central Virginia, providing area residents and visitors with the opportunity to view and purchase art and crafts by contemporary Virginia artists year-round. From traditional to the eclectic, the gallery features decorative and functional objects for your home and garden and an array of affordable gift items. Choose from jewelry, scarves and other wearable art, organic skin care, photography, paintings, sculpture, glass, ceramics, woodwork, and much more. As a cooperative, we work together to operate the store, so visitors are able to meet the artists who are on duty each day. Our location is just one-half block west of the Central Place, on the lively, pedestrian Mall in downtown Charlottesville. Look for the blue mosaic bench!

C'ville Arts: A Cooperative Gallery is a vibrant storefront space featuring handmade works by Virginia artists and craftspeople, located one-half block west of the Central Place on the lively pedestrian mall in historic, downtown Charlottesville, Virginia.

The gallery provides Charlottesville residents and visitors with the opportunity to view and purchase art and crafts by about 60 contemporary Virginia artists year-round. C'ville Arts offers a tremendous range of art & crafts, including decorative & functional objects for your home & garden, wearable art such as jewelry and scarves, organic balms, photography, paintings, sculpture, and more. As a cooperative, we work together to operate the store, helping keep our art affordable. Visitors are able to meet and chat with the artists who are on duty each day. C’ville Arts has become a popular place to find unique gifts for all occasions and locally made mementos for visitors to our area.

We feature new work by one of our artist members each month. We host an opening night reception on the first Friday of the month, in conjunction with the First Fridays gallery openings around downtown.