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A banjo player beside the upright piano at a music session inside Davoll's General Store, friends with pints in the foreground.
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Arts & Culture in Dartmouth, MA

7 listings across 4 villages · hours on 3

Galleries, studios, music venues, the cultural center and the university's performance spaces. The Arts section has the longer guide and the calendar carries openings and shows.

Arts & Culture in Bliss CornerAbout Bliss Corner

  • Schools · Bliss Corner

    Southworth Library

    Main branch of the Dartmouth Public Libraries, located on Dartmouth Street in South Dartmouth and part of the SAILS regional library network. The library traces its roots to an 1878 Padanaram reading collection; its original 1890 building on Elm Street now houses the Dartmouth Cultural Center.

    Closed now

Arts & Culture in PadanaramAbout Padanaram

  • Nonprofits · Padanaram

    Dartmouth Cultural Center

    Community-built arts and culture center in the historic 1889 Southworth Library building in Padanaram Village. Gallery exhibits of local and regional artists, classes and workshops (its site lists poetry, plein air painting and Nantucket basketry), and talks and gatherings where musicians, poets and other neighbors share their craft.

  • Shops & Retail · Padanaram

    Norton Framing & Gallery

    A custom picture framing shop offering design consultation and in-house frame production.

  • Shops & Retail · Padanaram

    The Bridge Gallery

    Art gallery and fine jewelry shop in Padanaram village founded by local jewelry designer Caroline Ballou, showing work by established and emerging artists alongside a children's corner and outdoor gathering space. Opened in July 2026.

    Closed now

  • Shops & Retail · Padanaram

    The Seagrass Studio

    The Seagrass Studio is a needlepoint shop in Padanaram Village, South Dartmouth, offering classes and events. It describes itself as a shop and community for needlepoint.

Arts & Culture in Russells MillsAbout Russells Mills

Arts & Culture in Smith MillsAbout Smith Mills

  • Schools · Smith Mills

    North Dartmouth Library

    The North Dartmouth branch of the Dartmouth Public Libraries, in a building that opened in January 2020. Offers lending, programs and public computers as part of the SAILS network.

    Closed now

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