I'm not sure what you mean by art scene but I tour appalachia and there's a lot of art stores, the best ones tend to be the cooperative ones that either make you work at the store manning the register to sell your art there, or charge you less money to sell your art if you do shifts - they tend to have good local vibes and higher quality art

there's a lot of totally shitty art stores out there, some with just chinese garbage or local art that seems careless or uninteresting, but there's lots of nice gift shops for paintings and they also have jewelry and wood and glass and fabric art.

There's definitely galleries in tourist areas with higher prices (I went to an art glass place in Hocking Hills Ohio that was like that)

But I also found two nice art places in Ohio one was in a small town (lancaster?) I wanna say that was a museum with demonstrations and a gift shop and the other was demonstrations, no museum, but a nicer selection of glass in their shop in akron