Spectrum Art Gallery
Galleries & Museums
Short Description
Spectrum Art Gallery is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Our mission is to advance photography as an art form through exhibitions and education. We aim to foster understanding and support for creatives by providing resources and exhibition space for working artists and students. Our educational programs and workshops provide a forum for the discussion of photography related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight.
Long Description
Spectrum Art Gallery offers an accessible community space for activities and programs to meet the community’s needs. Fifty years ago exhibitions of photography as an art form appeared very infrequently, especially in the San Joaquin Valley. It was at that time a growing number of photographic artists began to congregate in a darkroom rental gallery establishment called Photo-Synthesis. By 1980 this group of local photographers formed a not-for-profit cooperative to create a local forum for the fine art of photography. Later that year the group rented a space in Fresno’s Tower District, and referring to the broad variety of work produced by the charter members, called itself “Spectrum Gallery.” It operated under the umbrella of the Fresno Free College Foundation for several years until achieving its own non-profit 501(c)(3) status as “Spectrum Art Gallery.”