Gallup Pop Up Holiday Art Market Brings Local Makers Downtown
GallupARTS opened a Pop Up Holiday Art Market at ART123 Gallery on November 22, 2025, and the market is running through Thanksgiving weekend into early December. The event features more than 20 local artists selling pottery, paintings, jewelry, wood carving, papercraft and other handcrafted goods, offering a local shopping option for holiday buyers.
GallupARTS launched its Pop Up Holiday Art Market at ART123 Gallery, 123 W Coal Ave, Gallup, on Saturday, November 22, 2025, and the market is continuing through Thanksgiving weekend into early December. The gallery is hosting more than 20 local artists and artisans who are offering pottery, paintings, jewelry, wood carving, papercraft and a range of other handcrafted goods. Listings for the market appear on community calendars including AmericanTowns and the AARP event page, which carry the dates and gallery address for shoppers seeking local options.
The timing places the market squarely in a peak shopping window for holiday gift buyers, giving local makers a chance to capture dollars that might otherwise flow to online retailers or outside markets. For McKinley County residents, the market creates a concentrated opportunity to buy locally sourced gifts, support household income for artists and sustain small scale maker enterprises. Concentrating artists under one roof at ART123 also aims to increase pedestrian traffic on West Coal Avenue, which can spill over into neighboring businesses during the holiday period.
From a market perspective, events like this function as both retail venues and promotional showcases. They allow artists to test price points, reach new customers and build repeat buyers. Listings on regional community calendars extend the market reach beyond immediate neighborhood shoppers, which can be important for drawing in visitors from surrounding communities during a high demand season.
Policy makers and economic development officials track events such as the Pop Up Holiday Art Market as low cost interventions that support microenterprise and cultural tourism. Simple measures such as coordinated marketing, wayfinding, temporary parking solutions and small grant programs can magnify the economic impact of seasonal arts markets. Over the long term, nurturing regular arts markets contributes to a diversified local economy by strengthening small business income streams and making downtown Gallup a destination for authentic, handcrafted goods.
Shoppers can find event dates and the ART123 Gallery schedule on the ART123 and gallupARTS listings via AmericanTowns and the AARP community calendar for the most current hours and dates.
