Cultural Center Coconino Center for the Arts
North Flagstaff · Flagstaff
Flagstaff's premier nonprofit arts center presenting rotating contemporary and traditional art exhibitions alongside community arts programming, festivals, and events.
Art Galleries in Flagstaff
Flagstaff sits at 7,000 feet on the Colorado Plateau, surrounded by ponderosa pine forest and the San Francisco Peaks, and its art scene reflects the particular cultural richness of northern Arizona - a crossroads of Indigenous traditions from the Hopi, Diné, and Pueblo peoples of the surrounding region, and a university city with a lively contemporary arts community anchored by Northern Arizona University. The Museum of Northern Arizona, founded in 1928, holds one of the most important collections of Colorado Plateau Indigenous art and material culture in the world, and its annual Heritage Programs bring Hopi, Diné, and Zuni artists together in summer festivals that are among the best opportunities in the Southwest to acquire work directly from its makers. Downtown Flagstaff's gallery district along San Francisco Street offers a range of contemporary and Southwestern work in a walkable historic district.
Cultural Center 
Cultural Center Flagstaff Arts Council
Downtown Flagstaff · Flagstaff
The primary arts advocacy and presenting organization in Flagstaff, with gallery exhibitions and public programs supporting the city's vibrant creative community.
Museum Museum of Northern Arizona
North Flagstaff · Flagstaff
The region's foremost museum of natural and cultural history, housing one of the world's most significant collections of Hopi, Diné, Zuni, and Pai art, pottery, and jewelry.
Museum Northern Arizona University Art Museum
NAU Campus · Flagstaff
A significant university art museum presenting contemporary exhibitions and maintaining a permanent collection with particular strengths in photography and regional Southwest art.
Gallery The Artists Gallery Flagstaff
Downtown Flagstaff · Flagstaff
A cooperative gallery in the heart of downtown Flagstaff, run by member artists who show landscape paintings, ceramics, jewelry, and photography inspired by Arizona's northern highlands.
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Art at the Gateway to the Grand Canyon
Flagstaff's creative community is shaped by Northern Arizona University, which brings a steady influx of students and faculty artists to a town that might otherwise seem too small to support a serious gallery scene. The Coconino Center for the Arts, operated by Coconino County, presents exhibitions with particular depth in Indigenous and Southwestern art, while the Museum of Northern Arizona — founded in 1928 — holds one of the most significant collections of Hopi, Diné, and other Colorado Plateau Indigenous art and material culture anywhere in the world. The museum's annual Heritage Festivals, dedicated in turn to Hopi, Diné, and Zuni artists, are among the most important events in the Southwest Indigenous art calendar. Downtown Flagstaff's historic buildings along Route 66 host a growing number of galleries and studios that serve both the local community and the millions of visitors passing through on their way to the Grand Canyon, making Flagstaff an increasingly significant stop on the Southwest art trail.