The Tiniest Gallery

February 12, 2016 5:20 PM

The Tiniest Gallery
I like art, so I built a single-serving art gallery that features local artists and hung it on the fence outside my house.

It has a dusk timer and rope light so it lights up for about four hours after sundown. I feature work by local artists, ranging in age (so far) from 6 to 76. It runs on a two-week cycle, with art changes every second Sunday.

Role: Creator, curator

posted by Shepherd (9 comments total)

This project was posted to MetaFilter by xingcat on February 14, 2016: The Tiniest Gallery

Here in Portland, we have poetry boxes sort of like this. The ones I'm familiar with have an abandoned look, their poetry rumpled with water damage. I stop to read them anyway.

Yours looks AMAZING! It looks like an actual art gallery! And with regularly-updated work! And a timer light!
posted by aniola at 7:26 PM on February 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

Hey, you might like to reach out to the wonderful people of the miniscule "Mµseum" in Somerville, MA. It's really well done.
posted by Miko at 8:27 PM on February 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

Awesome idea.
posted by hoodrich at 1:07 AM on February 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is super cool!
posted by bunderful at 10:11 AM on February 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Thanks, everyone! Updated today on my two-week rota with "Sasquatch" by local watercolour painter Melodie Papp.
posted by Shepherd at 11:08 AM on February 14, 2016

What a great idea!
posted by Nancy_LockIsLit_Palmer at 6:19 PM on February 14, 2016

This reminds me of the little tiny Shinto shrines you find in Japan, just on street corners and such.
posted by beagle at 9:41 AM on February 24, 2016

Another update (a day early due to life stuff); "Nope!" by pop artist Chesty Wilson.
posted by Shepherd at 8:10 AM on February 27, 2016

That's an amazing idea!
posted by Thorzdad at 5:21 PM on February 29, 2016