The Green Center's Mission to Local Art

A key tenet of The Green Center's mission is to provide a space to share and promote nature-based art by local artists. The main rooms of the lower level of our warm and welcoming Green Family home have been converted into a gallery space. We keep our exhibits and receptions FREE to increase access to the arts for everyone open throughout the year. 30% of all art sold goes to support The Green Center's youth arts and restoration programs.

Contact us if you have nature-inspired artwork that you would like to be considered for a future exhibit. Details and information about how to apply can be found below. We're currently booked through most of 2026.

Our Galleries

DEtails about The SPace

The Green Center runs out of a 1930's Family Home and has converted the old dining room, foyer, and living room as our gallery space. It's important for exhibiting artists to know that we are first a foremost an open-door community space, which means our space is not a professional gallery space. Instead it has the warm house with a simple, non-permanent art hanging system. Our exhibiting space is fully open during our normal operating hours of Monday - Friday from 9am-4pm. 
The lay-out, design, and display of the exhibit is almost entirely left up to the artist(s) as long as it's not unalterable and allows staff to make easy changes in order to covert the space for events.

Interested in Exhibiting?

Are you an artist in the greater St. Louis / Southern Illinois area who makes nature-related art? If you're looking to exhibit in a warm, old home, please get in touch! You can email us at [email protected] with at least 3 samples of your work and a little bit about yourself. Please include:
  • what types of medium / media you want to exhibit
  • a rough idea of when you might want to exhibit (we generally are booked at least a year out)
  • why you are interested in exhibiting in our space

CHeck out our Current Exhibit details here.

Past Exhibits