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Second Street Gallery is one of the longest surviving nonprofit organizations in the country focused solely on the art and ideas of our time. Since its founding in 1973, SSG has served its surrounding community with continuous exhibition programming, and today is recognized as one of the leading nonprofit supporters of contemporary art in the Mid Atlantic region.

SSG is committed to offering Charlottesville and greater Virginia, leading-edge contemporary art in perspective and context, and to fostering an active and open appreciation of this art by directly engaging the issues surrounding work by regional and national artists. Second Street Gallery's mission is twofold:

To enliven Virginia through access to the best in contemporary art and artists, and to inspire new ways of thinking, seeing, and doing.

SSG receives funding from individuals, businesses, and corporations through its membership and major gifts program, and through grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and private foundations. SSG is a member of the Virginia Association of Museums (VAM), the Virginians for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Piedmont Council of the Arts.