Squam Lakes Artisans, a cooperative gallery and gift emporium on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, is celebrating the 2026 spring season with an Open House on April 24, from 5-6:30pm. The gallery membership includes 20 fine artists, photographers and artisans who are local to the Lakes Region. The gallery provides a broad and colorful cross section of the creativity that exists throughout New Hampshire. The works on display include all manner of visual art: paintings, photography, and fine art and crafts fashioned from fabric, glass, wood, and other materials.

Paintings on display have been created in traditional mediums (oil, acrylic, watercolor), as well as more esoteric mediums such as digital, alcohol and ink. Felted wool and stained-glass wall hangings festoon the walls alongside the paintings and photography. In addition to the hanging art, the gamut of fine arts and crafts is fully represented, from wood carvings, fabric art, pottery and ceramics to fine jewelry, glass art, woodworking and metal sculptures.

Squam Lakes Artisans [SLA] was established in 2005 in the Squam Lake Science Center in Holderness. In 2018, the gallery relocated to 23 Main Street, Center Harbor, in the building next to the town bandstand, just across from the town docks