A free gallery, a members' gift shop, classes and a calendar that runs from a summer jazz crawl to a New Year's Eve cheese drop.
Near the east end of downtown Mill Street, a few steps from the Cheese Capital arch, sits a gallery with a gift shop and a busy events calendar. The Plymouth Arts Center at 520 East Mill Street is a nonprofit community arts organization founded in 1993, and its Gallery 110 North shows six exhibitions a year.
Travel Wisconsin lists admission as free, which makes it an easy stop on a walk through town. This page covers what is inside, when it is open, the year of events and where to get a coffee or a drink before or after.
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What is inside the Plymouth Arts Center
Gallery 110 North is the main room for art, and it presents six exhibitions a year featuring Wisconsin artists. Travel Wisconsin adds a gift shop selling artwork by members and art classes for all ages.
The center's own site lists ongoing classes, including life and portrait drawing and painting with Lori Beringer, with registration through TicketLeap. WPR's 2026 listing notes that free docent-led tours are available for schools and community groups by appointment.
Hours and admission
The center's posted hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10 am to 4 pm, Wednesday 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday noon to 3 pm, closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays. Admission is free, according to Travel Wisconsin, and its listing notes ADA-compliant restrooms and wheelchair access.
Events can run outside those hours, so the calendar on plymoutharts.org is the thing to check before an evening visit. Call 920-892-8409 if you want to confirm a gallery is open between exhibitions.
The year at the arts center
The calendar follows the seasons. Travel Wisconsin's listing names spring and Christmas concerts by the Plymouth Arts Center Singers, Celtic concerts, and the Mill Street Live summer music series. In October the gallery shows Paint the Towns in Fall Color, which in 2026 runs from October 9 to November 13.
November brings the Holiday Art Fair, and the center's site lists the 31st annual Holiday Membership Exhibition for 2026, with an entry deadline in mid-October. An Evening of the Classics is listed among upcoming events.
Summer 2026 had the Cedarburg Artists Guild Membership Exhibition in Gallery 110 North, with work by more than 30 guild members, from August 14 through October 2. With six exhibitions a year, the show on the walls changes about every two months.
The Cheese Capital Jazz and Blues Crawl
The Cheese Capital Jazz and Blues Crawl, one of the center's signature annual fundraisers, is held on the second Friday in August. The 22nd crawl ran on Friday, August 14, 2026, from 4:30 to 11 pm, with free admission and donations welcome.
In 2026 the music spread from the arts center's plaza and Greatroom to downtown venues, with bands at Moxie, Plank Road Distillery, Big Billy's and Wild Shots Pub until late evening. A silent auction ran online through 32 Auctions, closing at 9 pm, and Junior's Eats served a Jazz Crawl menu on the plaza with two cash bars.
On the plaza, the 2026 lineup ran from the Gypsy Swing Chicks at 4:30 pm to the Erin Krebs Jazz Quartet featuring Paul Sucherman from 6 to 9 pm, while the Greatroom had Bella Musik and then the Donna Woodall Quintet.
The crawl venues are easy to find on a normal night too. Big Billy's on East Mill Street and Plank Road Distillery around the corner on Eastern Avenue are both within about 0.1 mile of the arts center. Wild Shots Pub, where Janice and Joe with Jazz N' More closed the 2026 crawl from 8 to 11 pm, is a few doors further west.
Sponsors in 2026 included Masters Gallery Foods, Sargento Foods and the Sartori Company, three of the cheese firms behind the town's nickname. That link between the art and the cheese is explained in why Plymouth is the Cheese Capital of the World.
New Year's Eve and the Big Cheese Drop
Plymouth ends its year at the arts center. Travel Wisconsin's listing names the Sartori Big Cheese Drop on New Year's Eve, and Tasting Table described it in 2024 as an evening with cheese tasting, a bonfire and live music. Check the center's calendar in December for this year's times.
The 2026 Cedarburg Artists Guild show also had a free artist reception on Friday, August 21, with music by the Gypsy Swing Chicks and appetizers and desserts.
In summer, the center sits in the middle of the Mill Street Festival, when the whole of downtown closes to vehicles.
Planning a visit
The arts center folds easily into a walk downtown. The Cheese Counter is about a quarter mile west on Mill Street and the arch is a few steps east. For an evening concert with an overnight stay, Plymouth Suites Hotel at 606 East Mill Street is just east on the same side of the street, about 0.04 mile away.
Saturday hours are short, noon to 3 pm, so a weekday afternoon gives you the most time in the gallery.
Coffee, supper or a drink nearby
Hartman's Bakery, on the same stretch of Mill Street, does donuts, scones and coffee for a morning visit. More morning options are in coffee shops in Plymouth.
For a drink after a concert, Plank Road Distillery, about 0.05 mile away, crafts bourbon, gin and rum, according to its listing. It is one of several downtown taps and tasting rooms.
A gallery hour fits easily into a day exploring Plymouth.
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Published August 3, 2026
