Visits are free for everyone and we invite you to enjoy the art. Beluga Press welcomes dogs and children. We are open on the First Friday of every month 5 until 8 pm, Saturday mornings 10 until 2 pm; Text (309) 310-7283 for your personalized tour! We are often in the 3rd floor studio, so text if the gallery looks locked.

Located one-half block north of the McLean County Museum of History and 2 doors north of Spice Works in the historic district of downtown Bloomington, Beluga Press offers tribute to the art legacies of seasoned artists while celebrating nature, contemporary art and cultural themes. 

Founded in the 1990’s as a practicing printmaking and painting studio, Beluga Press features new media and experienced artists inclusive of Illinois State University and regional art professors, visiting artists, students and alumni. With a growing variety of exciting artists and new works, Beluga Press is fast becoming one of Bloomington’s most prestigious fine art galleries, featuring many celebrated artists.

• Rhea Edge , environmental artist, gallerist, painter, printmaker, photographer and ecologist

• Phil Smith, painter working primarily in oils that feature regional landscapes and architecture

• Cathie Crawford, award-winning printmaker working with mid to large scale color woodcuts

• Lin Bryant-Smith, fabric and textile artist making beautifully crafted table toppers and wall art

• Barbara Hoffman, photographer working with high-contrast abstracted leaf and nature forms

• Salvador Ceniceros, painter with a meticulously crafted system of fine detailed color abstracts

• Manuel Ceniceros, featuring tradtional black & white darkroom photography of detailed nature

• Harold Gregor, celebrated ISU art professor’s water-based paintings of landscape color variations

• Mark Forth, mystic realism oil painter, printmaker and draftsman’s work with hints of surrealism

• Harold Boyd, reknowned ISU art professor, humanist, printmaker, painter, draftsman, sculptor

• Dann Nardi, sculptor and draftsman known for public art installations and fine woodcraft art

• Rhondal McKinney, professional photographer featuring local landscape in traditional perfection

• Kenneth Holder, ISU art professor, painter of Western themed landcapes in watercolor mastery

• Draper Matthews, contemporary emerging artist, sculptor, glass, ceramics and new media