Art & Photography Galleries

Rachel Burrows Art and Jewelry is a Key West local artisan creating and selling original art and handcrafted jewelry at the Key West Artisan Market, Key West Farmers Market, and local events throughout the Florida Keys.

Gallery & studio of women artists—expressive art in Key West

An owner-run gallery of contemporary work, metal and sculpture, tucked into the Shops at Mallory Square. Tony Klaesius has been part of the Key West art scene long enough to have chosen everything in the room himself.

The Studios of Key West inspires creativity, supports artists, and builds community through vibrant art, performances, and residencies.

Maria Wagner paints sea turtles, manatees and mangroves onto mailboxes and license plates, which makes for a better souvenir than most things you can carry home. She works out of Islamorada and shows alongside the Upper Keys arts community.

Steve Diossy designed Florida's Protect Wild Dolphins license plate in 1998, and it went on to become the state's best-selling specialty plate. His gallery at 404 Duval has the originals and the prints, and it closes for an hour at five every evening for happy hour.

Maggie Ruley paints Key West in acrylic, sometimes from a picnic table at Fort Zachary Taylor with a water bucket and a stack of snacks. Her Fleming Street studio sells the paintings and teaches you to make your own on Tuesdays.

Art classes in a Whitehead Street studio a short walk from the Hemingway Home, working in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media. The studio also takes commissions, including pet portraits and murals.

Studio Sesh Arts — contemporary gallery and creative hub in Islamorada showcasing emerging Southern artists.

Judith Chesher stocks her shop with work from around thirty Keys artists, and as she puts it, the Keys are full of artists doing all kinds of weird things. It sits in Rain Barrel Village, a few steps from a forty-foot lobster.

A small Duval Street gallery stocked with work that does not look like anybody else's on the street, including sculpture built out of reclaimed metal. It stays open into the evening, which makes it one of the few galleries you can browse after dinner.

Key West's Jag Gallery: dynamic art, open exhibits, top artists.

Michelle Nicole Lowe painted the cover of the 2023 Keys Traveler, a watercolor marking two hundred years of the Florida Keys. She is a fifth-generation Conch whose great-grandfather sailed over from Green Turtle Cay, and she paints the fish, birds and old bridges she grew up around.

A nonprofit gallery and working studio on the highway in Tavernier, showing two dozen Keys artists across painting, photography, raku and stained glass, with a ceramic studio on site. Sales here support art education and community programs rather than a private owner.

Mike Westell runs a tattoo studio on the Overseas Highway at Big Pine Key, mile marker 30, taking walk-ins and appointments both. If you want a souvenir of the Keys that does not end up in a drawer, this is the Lower Keys option.