The Vero Beach Art Club

The Vero Beach Art Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit artists' organization established in 1936 that runs a gallery and marketplace at 1903 14th Avenue in the Vero Beach Arts District, according to its About Us page.

The club says it began with a small group of local artists and has grown to more than 600 members, and it describes itself as a place for professional artists, emerging talents and art lovers alike. Its work in Vero Beach falls into three parts: rotating gallery exhibits and a marketplace on 14th Avenue, a calendar of outdoor shows from November to March, and a teaching program of classes, workshops, camps and open studios.

Under the Oaks, the March show in Riverside Park, is the event most Vero Beach residents know, but it is one production of the club rather than the club itself. The club's other shows, Art in the Park on Ocean Drive, Art by the Sea and the Fall Fine Arts Festival, fill the months before it.

The Vero Beach Art Club has operated since 1936, which the club describes as nearly nine decades of service to Indian River County.

The club's mission is to foster appreciation of art, artistic growth and educational opportunities for its members, to support community art education through classes and programs for youth, veterans and local recreation, and to award annual grants to art teachers and scholarships to students pursuing art degrees. Its stated vision is to be the region's leading promoter of fine art across Indian River County.

Volunteers run the Vero Beach club. The About Us page says a board of directors made up of 5 officers and 7 directors-at-large meets monthly to guide strategy, outreach and operations, and that members serve as gallery hosts, help run major events such as Under the Oaks and mentor students. The club's own pages give two membership figures: the About Us page cites a network of over 600 members, while the membership sign-up page advertises access to over 500 members.

The club's gallery and marketplace is at 1903 14th Avenue in Vero Beach, open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with First Friday Gallery Stroll hours of 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to its home page.

The same page names the exhibit room the Jeanette Beach Gallery and lists the office phone as (772) 231-0303. Classes, workshops, the home school program and the veterans classes all meet at the 14th Avenue address, which makes the Vero Beach gallery the club's main base as well as its shop.

The club describes the exhibit schedule two ways. Its home page says a themed, juried exhibit is presented every six weeks alongside the marketplace, while its exhibits page says the gallery space is changed every 30 days and the marketplace every six weeks. Upcoming Vero Beach gallery shows listed there include Holiday Cheer from October 28, 2026 and Tiny Treasures from December 2, 2026, and marketplace themes include A Season of Art from November 22, 2026.

Club work also hangs outside the gallery. The art show calendar describes a quarterly installation of local artists' work, presented with the Indian River County Main Library, in the main entrance of the library at 1600 21st Street in Vero Beach, with all pieces available for purchase. The current Winter IRC Library Exhibit opened September 22, 2026.

The Vero Beach Art Club runs four outdoor or off-site shows each season, from Art in the Park and the Fall Fine Arts Festival in November to Under the Oaks in March, according to its show calendar.

Art in the Park is a fine art and crafts exhibit by club artists at Humiston Park on Ocean Drive in Vero Beach. To take part, members must attend 3 general meetings and complete 15 volunteer hours before the show dates. The Fall Fine Arts Festival is open to members and non-members in 12 categories, with a $35 application fee and a $250 booth fee for a 10 by 10 foot space, white tents only, and ribbons for Best in Show, Merit Award and Honorable Mention.

Art by the Sea is a members' show of individual pieces, all for sale. The club says it is usually held at the Vero Beach Museum of Art but moves to the Bethel Creek House for 2027 because of construction projects, with judging after the January 8 drop-off and awards on Saturday, January 9.

The club's Under the Oaks page calls the 76th show in Riverside Park its biggest fundraiser of the year, with over 200 artists, and lists Friday and Saturday hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The club's own figures differ in two places: the Under the Oaks page says over 50,000 art lovers attend each year and gives a 10 a.m. Sunday opening, while the show calendar says the show draws over 60,000 visitors and lists Sunday, March 14 as 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. John Herbon won Best in Show at the 75th show.

The Vero Beach Art Club teaches classes and workshops for adults, youth and veterans at its 14th Avenue gallery, taught by member artists in oil, cold wax, watercolor, acrylics, pastel, ceramics and mixed media, the club says.

The youth and junior page lists a youth membership for ages 5 to 11 at $25 a year and a junior membership for ages 12 to 17 at $50 a year, plus home school art classes at 1903 14th Avenue on Mondays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., beginning October 5, 2026, along with summer and spring break camps. The membership page adds that junior members meet the third Friday of each month from October to May, have their own show in the gallery every May and display work in a tent at Under the Oaks. Adult membership is $75 a year, a business membership for up to five people is $250, and a lifetime membership is $750.

A separate program for veterans and first responders, called H.E.R.O.S., offers complimentary painting and drawing classes every third Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Vero Beach gallery for all skill levels; upcoming sessions include November 18 and December 16, 2026. Members interested in photography can join a discussion forum on the second Tuesday evening of each month at the 14th Avenue gallery from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., according to the club's show calendar.

The Vero Beach Art Club awards annual scholarships, including $2,000 awards, to graduating high school seniors at local schools such as Vero Beach High School and Indian River Charter High School to support college art studies, according to its About Us page.

The club also runs Arts for Smarts, which it describes as a partnership with the School District of Indian River County that provides art supply grants to public elementary and middle school art teachers; its home page puts the grants at $100 each. Other uses of donations named on the Vero Beach club's pages are a monthly art program for local veterans, tuition vouchers for summer art camps and classes, and public art installations.

Gifts support that work directly. The club says it relies on donations as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and its donation form lets donors direct money to a Children's Fund, a Scholarship Fund, a Club Fund or a School of Creative Arts Fund in Vero Beach.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, when the Vero Beach Art Club home, About Us, show calendar, exhibits, individual show, youth, H.E.R.O.S. and membership pages were re-read for this guide.