Switchboard Studios & Gallery

Switchboard Studios & Gallery is a place for artists to connect, create, and collaborate. Located above Columbia Kettle Works, the space is equipped with 7 artist studio workshop spaces, a gallery, and private entertainment space ideal for private parties, community meetings, and small gallery events.

As a gallery space, it's our goal to provide as many opportunities as possible to the local arts community. Whether you are a professional looking to make connections or fresh on the scene and looking for experiences hanging your work in a local gallery, we want to use our Open Call For Art shows every other month to help support artists of every skill level and medium.

Our artists enjoy helping to curate our kids summer art programs. They are the adventurous and artistic escape that your kiddos are searching for. Getting to pull from experiences from several artists, several mediums, and several creative avenues, we LOVE being able to provide our local kiddos with hands-on mess-making and creative exploration.

The Switchboard offers monthly Poetry Slams on the 2nd Friday of every month from 7-9PM where the community can explore the magic and art of words. Participants are welcome to share poetry, song lyrics, stand-up comedy skits, monologues, inspirational speeches, short stories... any words that inspire you. It is a great place to get good, positive constructive criticism for your work or just enjoy sharing ideas with like minded individuals.

The Switchboard is also home to Columbia's Movers & Shakers Society, a group of local community volunteers, artists and businesses that work together to pull of wondrous shindigs for our Columbia Community like our annual Halloween Party in the Park and Columbia's Chili For Charity Cook-Off.

As long as you are CREATING, we want you to come see us. The Switchboard is excited to make such an impact on the local arts community here in this little river town and have lots of ideas to look forward to putting into action. :)"