ARTWALK GAINESVILLE VENUES
April 24, 2026 Venue List
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1) Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA)
1314 S. Main St.
The Gainesville Fine Arts Association Presents the second annual High School & College Juried Exhibition: NEXT. Come see what our local students are making! On display until May 22. Local art for sale in the exhibition and in our gift shop. Open Wed - Sat 11 - 4 and by appointment. Flyer image: Brain Freeze by Francheska Melendez
https://www.gainesvillefinearts.org
352-328-5027
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2) First Magnitude Brewing Co.
1220 SE Veitch St
We are hosting the Turtle Survival Alliance on Saturday April 26th. From 1-6 PM (yes, we know it’s not Artwalk Gainesville, but we LOVE turtles too).
Artists, Live music, Food Trucks, Murch too! Turtle Talks with experts from 1-2 pm.
LOCAL ARTISTS - LIVE MUSIC- FOOD TRUCKS - COMMUNITY VIBES
(352) 727-4677
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3) Bingo Deli & Pub
619 S. Main St. Unit 14
(across from Heartwood sound stage)
ARTMatters - Gainesville's excellent artists mix it up and come together again in a month-long show. ARTMatters is a collective of accomplished artists working across a wide spectrum of media and creative traditions.
4) Civic Media Center
433 S. Main St.
The Civic Media Center will feature Lily Sage’s Reverence as Resistance: prints, paintings, puppet/mask, drawings, collages, poetry, zines, textiles, performance art. As Bread & Puppeteer, they internalized the ethic of generating “cheap political art,” and learned printmaking! To illustrate their ethnographic research on shamanism in Mongolia. “They take seriously Joseph Campbell’s definition of artists as, "the ones who communicate myth for today” amplifying messages otherwise lost in liminality.
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5) The Hippodrome Theater Art Gallery
25 SE 2nd Pl.
"Personas" Contributing artists: Komal Goswami, Lindsay Carlton, Jazmine Angeles, Aleksandr Wilde, Jillian Dahl, Lainie Ettema, Jeanina Nako, Grace Tompkins, Naheed Mojadidi, Nick Phitides. Personas ultimately situates subjectivity within a shifting field of negotiation, where the body remains unresolved, contingent, and continuously reformed through the act of perceiving and inhabiting space.
(352)-372-4477
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6) Sweetwater Print Cooperative
117 S. Main St.
This month is a new start of sorts. Sweetwater presents “Amizades & Natureza.” Welcome Toni Jepson's travel photography. As we are told Toni has built an ole School Darkroom in the Print Cooperative to do his own processing and printing, to experience the Magic of his own photos and images in the making.
Show opens 7-9pm on Friday, April 24th and runs through Sunday, May 24th. It may be seen after the opening any Friday morning 9am - noon or by calling 352 672-2646.
352-514-3838
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7) The Top Secret Event Space
10 N. Main St.
On Friday 4/24 and Saturday 4/25 from 7-10pm, join
@oldheadgnv! Abstract-ed a solo exhibition visual art project created by Maria Leite, abstraction as a means to represent complex sociopolitical realities, personal narratives, and collective emotions. 60 pieces created between 2015 and 2026 that
span photography, painting, drawing, collage, and mixed media.
https://www.thetopsecretevents.com/
352-278-1178
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8) The SL8 Gallery of Art
10 E. University Ave.
Art Gallery + Cinema. "The SL8, an art cafe, is open Thursdays-Sundays, 7-10 pm, with a slate of activities! Thurs - Garden of the Muses, Fri. & Sat. music, art, film, community, Sun. Art Films! The SL8 is pleased to show the collage work of George Hecht."
Call 352-226-2060 thesl8gallery@mail.com www.instagram.com/thesla8gallery.
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9) Artisans’ Guild Gallery
224 Nw. 2nd Ave. 11am-10pm Daily!
Our featured artist of the month is Linda Blondheim. As a landscape painter, Linda is devoted to documenting the rural lands, agricultural spaces, and native trees of her beloved Florida. She views painters as stewards of history and culture, capturing the spirit of their time. Through her work, she hopes to leave a lasting visual record that honors and preserves the beauty of Florida’s rural landscape.
352-378-1383
10) Limelight
4908 NW 34th Blvd Suite 11
ARTWALK GAINESVILLE PRESENTS:
Join the High Springs Juniorettes for a fun evening of art, music and an open-mic poetry reading!
The High Springs Juniorettes are a teen charity organization under the High Springs Woman's Club. Bring your teen and learn more about this amazing group!
Refreshments will be provided.