Three Art Galleries, One Sedona Story

Why Tlaquepaque

Art Is One of the Best Things to Do in Sedona

Sedona is one of the great art towns of the American West. Visitors come for the red rock views and stay for an art scene that has flourished here for more than half a century — and no place captures it like Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village, the beloved arts village on the banks of Oak Creek, fashioned after a traditional Mexican pueblo and a Sedona landmark since the 1970s.

Two of our galleries live inside Tlaquepaque. Creative Gateways — formerly Kuivato, one of the village's original galleries — carries breathtaking art glass and jewelry. Rowe Fine Art Gallery, beneath the iconic bell tower, celebrates the wildlife and landscapes of the Southwest in bronze and on canvas. A few minutes away in West Sedona, our Showroom offers something found nowhere else in town: a gallery devoted to a single artist at a time.

Why Tlaquepaque, Specifically

Ask a local for the best things to do in Sedona and Tlaquepaque comes up almost immediately — and it isn't only about the shopping. Built in the early 1970s in the style of a traditional Mexican village, Tlaquepaque was designed around a stand of towering sycamores rather than around them, so its cobblestone walkways, courtyards, and fountains feel like they grew up alongside the trees on the banks of Oak Creek. It's one of the few places in Sedona where architecture, nature, and art were planned together from the start.

That's part of why two of our galleries chose to call it home. You can wander from courtyard to courtyard, step into a gallery, then step right back out into the shade of a sycamore — no admission, no itinerary required, just an afternoon of discovery. It's the rare Sedona destination that rewards both a focused visit (you came for the art) and an aimless one (you came for the walk and found the art anyway).

Planning Your Gallery Day

If you're mapping out things to do in Sedona and want to build a day around art, here's how we'd do it. Start at Tlaquepaque in the morning, while the courtyards are quiet and the light through the sycamores is at its best. Creative Gateways and Rowe Fine Art Gallery sit just steps apart, so an hour or two lets you see both without feeling rushed — glass, jewelry, and Southwestern sculpture and painting, all inside the same short walk. Break for lunch at one of Tlaquepaque's courtyard restaurants, then take the creekside path along Oak Creek before you go.

From there, it's a ten-minute drive to our Showroom in West Sedona, where a single artist's work fills the space for seven weeks at a time — a different kind of gallery experience to close out the afternoon before red rock views take over at sunset. And if you can time your visit to a First Friday, you'll catch all three galleries at their liveliest, with opening receptions and new work on the walls.

However you split your day, gallery-hopping through Sedona art galleries and Tlaquepaque itself both belong on the same list of things to do in Sedona — one feeds the other.

Artists You'll Meet

A Community of Collected Artists

Across our three galleries we represent painters, sculptors, glass artists, and jewelers collected across the country and abroad, including: