2025 Art Stores & Galleries Guide

Frames At Large is a framing shop in Kill Devil Hills offering custom framing with the colors and designs of your choice. Frames At Large offers great customer service from knowledgeable and friendly staff who will help you customize and frame art and photographs. Taking photos during your vacation and then having them framed is a wonderful way to remember your experience and decorate your home.

You might not know that the Outer Banks has a robust arts community. KDH Cooperative is an artist-operated gallery featuring works of local artists across the Outer Banks. Membership of KDH Cooperative includes artists of diverse backgrounds. Art work represented by KDH Cooperative includes oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fibers, collage, wood, pottery, glass, mosaic and metal.  

Lasting Effect is a home-based business offering custom framing and homemade art.  This one-stop-shop will offer you tips on choosing the perfect mats and frames for wall art, photos, diplomas and memorabilia. The frames are built on site and the custom framing is done by hand. Whether framing art or photographs for home or for your business, Lasting Effect will ensure quality framing to suit your needs. Consider Lasting Effect for framing your Outer Banks family portraits or wedding photos. 

Proudly Handcrafted in the Carolinas! We love the outdoors at Nags Head Hammocks and handcraft our Classic Hammocks, Swings and Durawood Furniture to help you enjoy every moment. It all started in 1974 when our first hammocks were made in a little shop on The Outer Banks.

Fina art sea glass jewelry at its best! 

Within the walls of this old Nags Head-style cottage shop, decked outside with driftwood, you’ll find the best collection of wildlife art anywhere in the region. With its focus on birds and a specialty in decoys and carvings, its rooms are filled with creations of some of the region‘s most talented and best-known artists and craftsmen. This exceptional gallery is composed of a number of treasure-filled rooms, most with a main theme focus, like crabs, pelicans, herons and egrets, ducks and shorebirds, to name a few. There’s also a nice selection of antiques, art and collectibles related to hunting dogs and fishing.Beautiful bird carvings of all sizes are found throughout the shop and include antiques, reproductions of works by well-known NC carvers and some created by descendants of these legendary artisans. Though the focus is mostly on regional birds, those native to other areas are well-represented. In addition to original carvings and paintings, the shop carries fine prints and reproductions with wildlife, lighthouse and other seashore themes in various media. Also notable are its sculptures, plaques and an eye-catching collection of driftwood. Filling the spaces between the many larger items, is a wide and unique selection of artsy wildlife gifts, along with books, t-shirts, puzzles, greeting cards and much more. A browse through the Bird Store is a visual treat you won’t soon forget. You’ll find the shop just a half mile south of the Wright Brothers Memorial and open most days year round. Off-season days and hours can vary, so call ahead if visiting from out of town.

The Gift Garden has one of the largest selections of Tervis on the Outer Banks. We carry Yankee Candle and Country Candle products and candle gifts, as well as OBX t-shirts, souvenirs and gifts, premium home flags, and nautical and home décor. We have bath and body lotions and soaps made in North Carolina, and a great selection of North Carolina jams and jellies, sauces and peanuts. And for the sweet treats . . . Nostalgic candy and sodas and salt water taffy.