The cooperative gallery began a cultural revolution in the area.

And in 1943 what is said to have been the first cooperative gallery, run by artists themselves, sprang up in a storefront there.

Artists have a variety of reasons for joining a cooperative gallery.

We were asking ourselves, How can we be different and not be confused with the standard cooperative gallery?

Each member of this cooperative gallery has invited a guest artist to share the exhibition space, producing a large and highly varied presentation.

A.I.R. was the first all female cooperative gallery in the United States.

The year's first show highlights the variety of styles and graphic techniques used by the members of the cooperative gallery.

Each of the cooperative gallery's 23 members has invited a guest artist whose work he or she admires.

The museum is at its center, but private and cooperative galleries are also becoming steadily more popular and successful.

Unlike cooperative galleries, which carefully jury their members, vanity galleries will exhibit anyone who pays.