Northland Artists' Gallery

Northland Artists’ Gallery is an artist-owned cooperative fine-art gallery at 519 Main Street in Weston, run and staffed by its own member artists and open seven days a week.

Description

Northland Artists’ Gallery occupies a storefront at 519 Main Street in Weston, Missouri, a Platte County river town whose intact nineteenth-century commercial main street is the gallery’s principal foot-traffic engine.¹ The gallery is open daily, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.¹

The gallery is a cooperative rather than a dealer’s gallery: it is artist-owned and artist-managed, governed by an elected board of directors, with all members serving on committees, and it is staffed by the artists themselves whenever it is open.² Membership is juried — prospective artists apply and present work to a jury committee.² The gallery states that it has grown from a handful of artist-members to a body of roughly thirty regional artists.²

Work on offer spans oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolour painting, mixed media and drawing, sculpture, handcrafted jewelry, photography, pottery, stained glass and fibre art, with new work rotated in continually.² Kansas City public radio station KCUR listed the gallery among the handcraft destinations in Weston in a 2024 travel feature, naming its annual small art show.³ That show — original work sold at a single low price point — has run annually; the ninth edition was scheduled for Saturday 12 September 2026.⁴

The gallery also participates in the Weston Art Walk, a Main Street event promoted by the Weston Chamber of Commerce.⁵

Ownership and history

Per the gallery’s own account, the organisation began as Northland Exposure Artists’ Gallery, founded by Northland artist Debbie Pfauth, who opened a gallery in Smithville, Missouri. In 1999 it was reorganised as a cooperative gallery. It moved to Parkville in 2005, then to Main Street in Weston in August 2016. The name was changed to Northland Artists’ Gallery in 2019.²

Because the gallery is a cooperative, there is no single proprietor: ownership rests with the artist-members and operating authority with an elected board.²

— the year Debbie Pfauth opened the original Smithville gallery, which precedes the 1999 cooperative reorganisation the gallery gives as its founding date. — current board officers and the exact current member count; the gallery’s own about page says “nearly 30,” while a 2026 promotional post referenced a larger figure.

Links

• Website: https://www.northlandartists.com/

Services

Confirmed first-party offering:¹²

• Retail sale of original fine art by member artists — painting (oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolour), drawing and mixed media, sculpture, pottery, stained glass, fibre art, photography
• Handcrafted jewelry
• Juried membership for regional artists, by application and presentation to a jury committee
• Annual small art show (low-price original work), most recently the ninth annual edition
• Participation in Weston Main Street Art Walk events

Sources

Footnotes

1. “Northland Artists Gallery — Local Art Gallery in Weston,” Northland Artists’ Gallery (gallery website), retrieved 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. “About Northland Artists’ Gallery,” Northland Artists’ Gallery (gallery website), retrieved 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

3. “Want to explore Weston, Missouri? Start with this guide,” KCUR 89.3, 14 September 2024. URL ↩

4. Northland Artists’ Gallery, ninth annual Small Art Show announcement (12 September 2026), retrieved 2026-08-26. URL ↩

5. Weston Chamber of Commerce, Facebook page (2026 Northland Artists’ Gallery Art Walk promotion), retrieved 2026-08-26. URL ↩