Contact Us - Valerie's Gallery

Valerie's Gallery
26 State Street
Newburyport, MA 01950
(978) 499-8444
For general inquires, e-mail us.

HOURS:

Monday-Thursday 10-6

Friday 10-7

Saturday 10-6

Sunday 11-5:30

DIRECTIONS:

From I-95: Take Exit 57 (Route 113/High Street). Travel a few miles and look for a playground area on the right with a yellow blinking light. At that light, take a left onto Green Street. Move into right lane. Follow until Stop Light and take a right onto Merrimack Street/Water Street. At town center (bricked area with benches), follow bend to the right onto State Street. We are about five stores up on the right.

Or you may find it more convenient to use the free three-hour parking lot it it's busy downtown and hard to find on-street parking. The entrance tot he parking lot can be reached from Green Street or Merrimack/Water Street, you'll see a blue sign for parking.

Enter that parking lot and travel to the opposite end of the parking lot, park where you can. Keep walking in that same direction and you'll see a children's play area (known as the Tot Lot). Cross Inn Street (the pedestrian walkway) and walk through the short alley ahead of you. When you walk through the alley, you'll be on State Street. Take a right and look for our "Valerie's Gallery" sign overhanging the street. We are next to the Best of British shop.

From Route 1/1A in Salisbury: follow signs for Newburyport. Cross the bridge over the river and take the first exit. At the bottom of the ramp, take a left onto Merrimac Street. Look for the municipal three-hour parking lot on your right and then follow directions in previous paragraph.

Call if you get lost: (978) 499-8444.

ARTIST SUBMISSIONS:

Thank you for your interest in being in our shop.

Although we are pretty "full" usually, occassionally we need to fill a niche or something attracts us that we didn't know we would love and would be perfect! We generally add a few new artists each year.

We look for American-made, hand-made goods, with a preference for pieces made in New England; high quality materials and workmanship; uniqueness from other items we carry; uniqueness from what other Newburyport shops sell; whether we think it's something our customers would purchase; and whether we believe it will fit in with our other artists' work.

To submit work, please provide:

1) photographs or digital images for 10-20 recent works

2) artist biography/resume

3) description of your work and process

4) wholesale prices, and if consignment is acceptable.

Please send to: Valerie's Gallery, 26 State Street, Newburyport MA 01950 or e-mail. If you would like your materials returns, please include a self-addressed and stamped envelope.

We regularly review submissions and will contact you if interested. We try not to meet during store hours as we prefer to focus on customers while open. So, a meeting would then be scheduled during off hours for the shop. We are a small shop and unfortunately due to space limitations cannot accept every new work, even if we think it's great. Our apologies too that due to the high volume of inquiries, we cannot respond to every submission.