Osceola Art and Frame Gallery

Osceola Art and Frame Gallery has operated out of a small storefront at 1018 West Emmett Street, just off downtown Kissimmee, for more than four decades, run by owners John and Nancy Lion. In a category of business that has been squeezed hard by big-box craft stores over the past twenty years, a locally owned frame shop that has survived that long says something about the quality of the work and the relationships built with customers over time.

The shop’s core business is custom framing: mounting and matting artwork, photographs, sports memorabilia, and other keepsakes behind glass, along with shadow box construction for three-dimensional items like military medals, jerseys, or collectibles. The gallery side of the business rounds things out with art available for purchase, so it functions as both a working frame shop and a small gallery space rather than just a service counter. Because it is independently owned, the shop can take on the kind of oddly shaped or sentimental framing jobs that a chain craft store’s framing department, with its standardized options and higher staff turnover, often is not set up to handle as carefully.

Osceola Art and Frame Gallery holds an A-plus rating with the Better Business Bureau and is a member of the Professional Picture Framers Association, a trade organization that expects framers to demonstrate technical skill and stay current on archival framing methods, the kind of thing that matters if you are framing a piece of art or a document you want to protect for decades rather than years. The business is also active in the Kissimmee-Osceola County Chamber of Commerce, which fits the picture of a shop that has built its customer base locally rather than through national advertising campaigns.

Emmett Street sits in the older commercial fabric of Kissimmee, not far from the downtown lakefront district, so the shop’s location is part of what makes it useful for a directory like this one: it is genuinely embedded in the older part of the city rather than in one of the newer retail corridors built up around the tourist trade to the west. For anyone in Osceola County who has a piece of art, a diploma, a jersey, or a set of family photos that deserves better than a mass-produced frame from a big-box store, this is the kind of shop that this sort of research is meant to surface: independently owned, long running, and locally rooted rather than a satellite location of a national framing or craft chain.

Pricing is not published outright, since custom framing costs vary by size, materials, and complexity, but the shop markets itself on offering custom work at accessible pricing rather than premium gallery rates, and the standard approach for new customers is to bring a piece in or call ahead to get a quote. Given the owners have been active in the local business community for over 40 years, the shop has built its reputation the slow way, through repeat customers and word of mouth around Kissimmee rather than marketing spend.