If you're looking for a gift or just something different then Waverly House is the place to go…read more They feature jewelry (including designs by yours truly), sculpture, artwork, glass, wood and more by area artists and in every price range. The front room is filled with Christmas treasures year 'round. The staff is very knowledgeable on artists and their works and are very friendly. The upstairs gallery features different artists throughout the year. Stop by sometime and check out this hidden gem.

From the owner: We are a fine art and fine craft gallery representing over 100 artists in the Springfield area for…read more30 years. In addition we have a year round Christmas Room.

I absolutely love this store! Its so unique! These ladies put so much hard work in to displaying…read moreall the fantastic creativity here in Springfield. I bought my first locally made dress from them last month and I adore it!!! I saw a post on their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/artsandlettersspringfield) about some of their newest stock and loved the look of a dress by Alicia Mae. So I rushed to the store, because it needed to be mine! I tried it on and to my dismay it did not fit the way I wanted :( I was quite disgruntled until Laura and Meg told me they could get in direct contact with the designer! I'm so use to the "if the store doesn't have it, you are out of luck" mentality, that this was a completely new and exciting concept! FANTASTIC! So the wonderful ladies of Arts & Letters got me in contact with Alicia Mae and the very next day I was getting measured for my very own custom dress! HOW COOL! The dress was very affordable, very well crafted, I got to pick out the fabric, fit my body like a glove, and all three ladies were so easy to work with. Go support local art and all the hard work of these lovely ladies!

Absolutely love this store and everything it represents!!! They are always open during first…read moreFriday Art Walk, also! Stop in and check out all of the locally-made treasures!

First Friday art walk is always fun, especially when the weather is good. Had an especially great…read moretime listening to a group of young ladies playing ukuleles and singing. (The Ukeladies!) Many of them had written and performed their own songs! Downside was it was hard to hear them with the traffic passing by. I love that Springfield has this- a nice time to walk around, look at art,listen to music and grab some great food downtown.

Art walk is a mixed bag…read more You can have AWESOME art walks with a little of everything, or you get shitty ones that try to follow themes or have little turnout. I HATE going to the galleries. Why are there so many art galleries in Springfield and how do they stay open? I know MSU has a great and wonderful art program, but artists (who don't make much money at all) collect and meet together to support each other (with little to no money at all) and crowd up small buildings to talk about elitist concepts of art that I, especially, don't give a rat's ass about! You want to know my opinion about art? Art is a skill that comes from necessity. Hunting, for example, is a necessary skill that later turned into target practicing. Painting, I think, came only after someone started conveying messages on cave walls. We DO need to convey messages, but when that message is an entire gallery of penises--I mean, "phallic symbols"--what message are you making? No joke. Before it became Pickleman's, there was a MSU gallery there. They'd have featured artists who got famous from shtick or gimmick. The artwork wasn't about skill, but usually controversy. I was a dating a design major at the time and she invited me out. She told me that she wanted to see the phallic exhibit. I walked in the front door and felt like smashing the sculptures and killing anyone who had anything positive to say about it. Think about this: if I opened a gallery with sculptures and pictures of vulvas, would I be a pervert or an artist? This bitch who fashioned dongs out of clay is a pervert. Somehow, though, she's making money. I go for the bars and specials. I HATE paying full price for beer and will go places that offer me something to drink at a reduced rate. So what if I have to wait 15 minutes to get it, I'm paying half price for the same shit that was costing me my night's budget! I suggest going to art walk AFTER 9 pm. The roving packs of high schoolers, older and slower moving car targets, and many yuppies tend to recluse around that time. Galleries start closing. Don't worry, you're only missing a tray of crackers and Yellow Tail if miss out on the wonderful, wonderful artistic fortitudes of Springfield's financially desolate only found in cold, pretentious art galleries. There will be a lot of people in the bars, so I suggest you and your friends secure a table and send one person the bar at a time for pitchers. Beware of the frat-asses who'll blindly intimidate you into moving, but never keep good on their promises of ass-kickery. You may need to bring a squirt gun with you to fight off hipsters smoking clove cigarettes (hipsters hate water). If you're like me, you'll probably be content in finding a hole-in-the-wall by your lonesome and farting when someone starts crowding your shit OR riding your bike as fast as you can through large crowds of Jersey Shore look-alikes hoping to flatten a Snooki or Situation. Keep a flask in your pocket, 'cause you're likely to wait.