Fifth Avenue Art Gallery

Fifth Avenue Art Gallery has been a fixture of the Eau Gallie Arts District since 1974, making it one of the longest-running artist cooperatives in Brevard County and a cornerstone of Highland Avenue’s gallery row decades before the surrounding district earned its EGAD nickname. The gallery is member-owned and member-operated, meaning the working artists whose paintings, fine crafts, and handcrafted jewelry fill its walls also run the space, staff the front desk, and curate its rotating exhibitions. That cooperative structure gives visitors a chance to meet the artists behind the work more often than a typical commercial gallery would allow, since members regularly staff the gallery themselves rather than delegating sales to outside employees.

The gallery organizes its main exhibition space, called Gallery One, around a new themed show every month, with opening receptions held on the first Friday of each month to coincide with the wider Eau Gallie Arts District’s First Friday gallery walk. That monthly rhythm means the work on the walls changes regularly, giving repeat visitors a reason to come back throughout the year rather than seeing a static collection. The gallery focuses on original fine art and fine craft across a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, mixed media, and jewelry, sourced primarily from local and regional Brevard County artists rather than national or imported work.

Regular hours run Wednesday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with additional access by appointment for collectors who want a private viewing outside those hours. The gallery sits at 1470 Highland Avenue, in the thick of EGAD’s walkable gallery district, putting it within a few storefronts of Derek Gores Gallery, the Foosaner Art Museum, and the district’s other studios and shops, making it an easy stop on any walking tour of the neighborhood.

As one of the area’s older continuously operating art cooperatives, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery has watched the Eau Gallie Arts District grow up around it, from a quiet stretch of Highland Avenue into a recognized regional arts destination with a monthly gallery walk that draws visitors from across Brevard County. For collectors, the cooperative model means original, often one-of-a-kind pieces at prices that reflect direct sales from artist to buyer rather than gallery markups typical of larger commercial spaces. For casual visitors, it offers a genuine window into what local working artists are producing right now, refreshed monthly, in a space that has outlasted plenty of newer galleries that have come and gone along the same stretch of Highland Avenue since 1974.