It was founded in 1967, organizing exhibitions of local, national, and international visual artists.

Gallery Stratford involves the community in its programming to facilitate visual arts awareness for adults and children.

Programs change seasonally, with studio classes in a range of mediums such as oil painting, drawing and illustration, photography, and printmaking.

Gallery Stratford's Arts Alive program offers drawing, photography, animation, painting, sculptures, collage projects etc.

The scholarship aims to ensure that Stratford area youth remain interested in the arts.