tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12993952883260957382024-02-07T16:00:11.964-08:00Little Free Art Gallery"When art is free so are we." Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-63529737266946674702013-04-14T15:53:00.002-07:002013-04-14T16:07:14.369-07:00"When art is free so are we" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[photo & quote credit: Doug Millison, co-founder & acting curator, Little Free Art Gallery]</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-73538216916784439952013-03-11T11:13:00.003-07:002013-03-12T08:58:19.478-07:00Little Free Art Gallery on exhibit at "The Free Gallery", Opening Night, 1 March 2013 <span style="font-size: x-small;">[All photos and article by Doug Millison]</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">The work of art may thus consist of a formal arrangement that
generates relationships between people, or be born of a social process; I
have described this phenomenon as 'relational aesthetics,' whose main
feature is to consider interhuman exchange as an aesthetic object in and
of itself. </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">–Nicolas Bourriaud<i>, Postproduction Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World</i></span></blockquote>
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Free Gallery" is a work of social art, a work of art that borrows the
social form of the art gallery and whose major elements include the
activity of the people who visit the exhibit and the relationships that
they form in the process. "The Free Gallery" proprietor, Jocelyn Meggait
of Free Utopian Projects, has built a gallery within the hosting Pro
Arts gallery in Oakland, California, where she has organized an exhibit of art
works and interesting second-hand objects from 70 people. The
public is invited through March 29, visitors can expect to find art
works and other treasures and choose one to take away for free.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">"The Free Gallery" is a<i> social art work</i>, an art gallery inside another art gallery, Pro Arts, in downtown Oakland, California. </td></tr>
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I donated three new "Single-Serving Size" Little Free Art Gallery works
to be exhibited and given away at the show: <i>The Hilary Box</i>, <i>Boss Joss</i>, and <i>Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I Call?</i>
The Little Free Art Gallery project also borrows the social form of the
art gallery and incorporates the activity of the people who visit and
"enter" the gallery installation, and who take a piece of art from it <i><br /></i><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">I donated three "Single-Serving Size" Little Free Art Gallery works to be exhibited and given away at the show: <i>The Hilary Box</i>, <i>Boss Joss</i>, and <i>Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I Call? </i></td></tr>
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exhibit replicates the social experience of the art gallery. Visitors
respond to publicity about "The Free Gallery" in social media, from Pro
Arts, and other sources, and come to visit. Admission is free. Instead of
selling the works on exhibit, "The Free Gallery" offers its exhibited
items for free, one for each visitor who wishes to take one. Meggait
interviews each visitor and records the reason given for this particular
selection, and photographs the patron with her selection. A basket at
the information desk offers offer business cards and flyers from
exhibiting artists, as well as "The Free Gallery" post card. A guest book
sits ready for visitor comments. New art works are placed in "The Free
Gallery" daily throughout the show. On opening night, Meggait said that
she expects everything to be taken by visitors by the end of the exhibit
period.<br />
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In explaining "The Free Gallery", organizer Jocelyn Meggait points to the writings of Nicolas Bourriaud whose book <i>Relational Aesthetics</i> provides a theoretical frame for understanding art works that replicate social forms. (Bourriaud's <i>Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How
Art Reprograms the World</i> quoted above, is available online as a
pdf, search the title at
Google.) "The Free Gallery" thus not only presents a well-curated and
attractively-designed display of art works and interesting second-hand
items, as an art work itself it includes the activity of the visitors
who arrive: they view the exhibit, talk with other visitors, select a
work, describe why they are taking it, have their photo taken. The
social process that unfolds over time in this gallery-within-a-gallery
constitutes Meggait's work of social art. <br />
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The Little
Free Art Gallery works that I donated to "The Free Gallery" are also
social art works. Intended as art objects, their exterior and interior
surfaces have been decorated the way I create scrapbook collages, with a
variety of materials and imagery spanning a spectrum of styles.<br />
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Little
Free Art Gallery also recreates the art gallery social experience.
Visitors are invited to open the door and "enter" the Little Free Art
Gallery, view the art work on exhibit within, and to take the Little
Free Art Gallery home (in the
case of a Single-Serving Size box) or who take a piece of art from it if
the Little Free Art Gallery in question is a permanent
installation. They are also invited to contact the Little Free Art
Gallery blog or Facebook Page, to let the project organizer (me) know
the where it ended up, in whatever level of detail the new owner is
willing to provide.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i>The Hilary Box</i>, a "Single-Serving Size" Little Free Art Gallery
featuring a collage from T<i>he Concrete Jungle Book</i> project, by Morris
Armstrong, Jr. proudly a.k.a."Little Mo" with help from the Nonhuman
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i>Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I Call?</i> Single-Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery, back and side view, on exhibit at "The Free Gallery"</td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i>Boss Joss </i>XS Little Free Art Gallery on exhibit at "The Free Gallery"</td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-64420785868752253072013-03-03T09:58:00.006-08:002013-03-08T19:34:32.640-08:00 Little Free Art Gallery at "The Free Gallery" - The Photo Album Great set of photos by <span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"> Jess Dene Schlesinger of "The Free Gallery" organized by Free: A Utopian Project at Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, opening night March 1, 2013</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I Call?</i> Little Free Art Gallery on the table at lower left.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-62297971435046301542013-03-01T13:58:00.000-08:002013-03-01T13:58:14.086-08:00Hope to see you tonight, 6-8 p.m. at the Artists Reception for "The Free Gallery" show at Pro Arts, Oakland, California Hope to see you tonight, 6-8 p.m. at the Artists Reception for <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">"The Free Gallery" at Pro Arts, Oakland, California </span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-54345723617373063962013-02-26T08:46:00.002-08:002013-02-26T15:12:25.900-08:00"The Free Gallery" preview starts today at Pro Arts in downtown Oakland, at 10 am., including 3 of my Little Free Art Gallery pieces, everything to be given away for free when the show opens March 1<span class="userContent">"The Free Gallery" preview starts today at Pro
Arts in downtown Oakland, at 10 am. I've got 3 Little Free Art Gallery
pieces on exhibit, to be given away free. I'm not sure yet how it's
all going to work, I guess on March 1 when the show ope<span class="text_exposed_show">ns
officially, an "Artists Reception and Free Art Launch" will take place
from 6-8 p.m., maybe that is when people will be able to take the art
and other gallery items for free, I have no idea how it will work then
or afterwards, maybe I will find out more before then. At any rate, it
will be interesting to see how people respond to the whole thing.</span></span><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">"The Hilary Box", "Boss
Joss", and "Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I Call" are 3 Little
Free Art Gallery confections by Doug Millison, to be exhibited and given
away for free at "The Free Gallery", Pro Arts, Oakland, California,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-89345492367963795342013-02-24T21:05:00.003-08:002013-02-24T21:05:58.701-08:00Little Free Art Gallery Bumper Stickers<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>HONK IF YOU LOVE FREE ART</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>I (HEART) FREE ART </b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-47030857284341566462013-02-24T20:07:00.001-08:002013-02-24T20:13:26.211-08:00Coming soon to Little Free Art Gallery No. 1: "Garage Collage"<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i>Family Group </i>by Morris Armstrong, Jr. proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo" with help from the Nonhuman Crew including Doug Millison; from the<i> Garage Collage </i>series. Details of public exhibit and items to be given away for free at Little Free Art Gallery No. 1 in El Cerrito, California, to be announced.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-62216795292146816282013-02-16T18:18:00.000-08:002013-02-21T08:46:18.610-08:00"The Hilary Box", "Boss Joss" and "Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I Call?" delivered to Pro Arts, Oakland, California, today for "The Free Gallery" extravaganza<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><i>The
Hilary Box</i>, <i>Boss Joss</i> and <i>Big Joss Man, Can't You Hear Me When I
Call? </i>constitute a new series of Little Free Art Gallery installations
by Doug Millison, all
created especially to give away for FREE at "The Free </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Gallery" starting
later this month and running through March 2013 at Pro Arts, Oakland,
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<i>BOSS JOSS</i> by Doug Millison, an<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> XXS “Single-Serving Size” Little Free Art Gallery<br /> created to be given away for free at<span class="text_exposed_show"> “The Free Gallery”, Pro Arts, Oakland, California<br /> February 26 - March 29, 2013. Made of authentic joss paper HELLBANK notes, </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">HELLBANK </span></span></span>golden ingots, red and gold metallic joss paper, and <i>hong bao</i> red money gift envelopes all purchased at 99 Ranch Market in Richmond, California, plus newspaper clip, rubber stamp. More about </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">“The Free Gallery” at </span></span></span>http://www.proartsgallery.org/exhibitions/2013_exhibitioncall_freegallery.php</span></span></span><br />
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inside front cover decorated with joss paper; hong bao envelope tag
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-28135820595416663822013-02-09T09:14:00.000-08:002013-02-09T09:15:08.753-08:00<span class="userContent">Dear Little Free Art Gallery,<br /> <br /> If
"everybody is an artist" as Joseph Beuys said, and people like you repeat
ad nauseum then why aren't we all making art all the time? <br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /> An Art Collector & Investor<br /> <br /> Dear Art Collector & Investor,<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> People do…but, we don't call it Art. <br /> <br />
Growing up we have learned the lesson well: Art is something only
special people with special insight and privileges, called Artists, get
to spend their time doing. <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the rest of us pursue
our "crafts" and "creativity" from day to day in countless beautiful,
useful, and life-affirming ways, and leave the "Artists" to themselves.
<br /> <br /> If the Big Expensive Art Gallery doesn't want my creations, I
build a Little Free Art Gallery and use it to give away freely the
things that I make as I try to make my life and world a more beautiful
and satisfying place.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-55394880625442141802013-02-08T21:22:00.002-08:002013-02-09T08:30:31.853-08:00Fine-tuning the Little Free Art Gallery Mission Statement<b>Little Free Art Gallery Project Mission Statement</b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Recognizing
that most people rarely if ever engage directly with living artists and
new, original works of art due to economic and class barriers and other
factors, and seeing how we often fail to realize our own artistic
abilities for <span style="font-size: small;">the same reasons</span>, the Little Free Art Gallery Project seeks to deepen our
understanding of art and how to use it to enhance our lives through the
practice of making art and giving it away for free. <br /><br />We create,
and encourage others to create, art galleries and their digital media
counterparts in a variety of configurations and sizes, deployed across a
spectrum of public and private locations. We invite and organize
artists to use the Little Free Art Gallery installations to give away
free, original works of art, and to document their gifts in the
project's online and printed publications.<br /><br />We use this free art
exchange to create communities and online networks where we engage each
other and deepen our understanding of the world as we inspire and help
each other to make and share art. Together in person, in digital media,
and in print, we discuss art, its "value" and uses, our relationship
with original art works and their creators, and related topics.<br /><br />By making and sharing free art, we seek to liberate our thinking and open more fully to the world and to each other.<br /><br />"When art is free, so are we."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> –Doug Millison, co-founder</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three of Doug Millison's works, Junkyard Knife 2011, Madrone Studios, San Francisco, October 2011. One of this altered-book scrapbook collage series (although not one of these 3 works) will be included in a free "single-serving size" Little Free Art Gallery display box to be given away at "The Free Show" <span class="userContent">March 1, 2013 at Pro Arts, Oakland, CA [photo: Michael Sun]</span></td></tr>
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<span class="userContent">Project co-founder, Doug Millison (<a href="http://dougmillison.com/">http://DougMillison.com</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dougmillison">https://www.facebook.com/dougmillison</a>) is donating one of the original collage works created for <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=152310330342&extragetparams=%7B%22group_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConcreteJungleBook?ref=hl&group_id=0">The Concrete Jungle Book</a>
project to be given away in one of the Little Free Art Gallery "single-serving
size" gallery boxes distributed at "The Free Show" on March 1 at Pro Arts in
downtown Oakland. T<span class="text_exposed_show">hese works have been
exhibited at AJS Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and at Madrone Studios,
San Francisco (some of the collages shown in photo from the SF show in
October 2010; photo by Michael Sun). "The Free Show" details at <a href="http://www.proartsgallery.org/exhibitions/2013_exhibitioncall_freegallery.php">http://www.proartsgallery.org/exhibitions/2013_exhibitioncall_freegallery.php</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-55169009775184697262013-02-07T20:37:00.003-08:002013-02-07T20:55:11.476-08:00How does Little Free Art Gallery fit within the growing community of organizations and events that explore "free" alternatives?<span class="userContent">How does Little Free Art Gallery fit within the growing community of organizations and events that explore "free" alternatives?<br /> <br /> A: Little Free Art Gallery grows out of work by Doug Millison in 2011, when he developed a plan for a member<span class="text_exposed_show">ship-based
creative community and production facility in the San Francisco Bay
Area, formalized in a project called FreeArtExchange.com and evolving in
2012 to include the Little Free Art Gallery. <br /> <br /> The project
focuses on creating communities centered on making and sharing original
works of art for free, celebrating the process: Art Making → Curating →
Exhibiting → Receiving → Giving<br /> <br /> Online, the Little Free Art
Gallery Project gives artists a way to document the original works that
they give away for free, in a Free Art Exchange directory/app --
available for free, naturally.<br /> <br /> Little Free Art Gallery Project
encourages artists, art teachers, curators, and others to establish
their own Little Free Art Gallery installations in art studios,
classrooms, museums, and community locations where art lovers can
encounter them and help themselves to free original art works.<br /> <br />
Little Free Art Gallery installations range in size from "single-serving
size" gallery boxes that include one original work of art, to
booth-sized units that provide an immersive gallery experience for one
or a small group of art lovers. We also plan community deployments
involving multiple artists who each create "single-serving size" Little
Free Art Gallery boxes and place them in public places where art lovers
can find them and take appropriate actions as a result.<br /> <br /> In
development: Web-connected Little Free Art Gallery kiosks and app that
can distribute original works of digital art for download by art-lovers
on the Web at LittleFreeArtGallery.com, via smartphone app, or from
Little Free Art Gallery digital, Web-connected kiosks.<br /> <br /> We welcome all interested parties to help move this exciting project forward.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-29021953969442811252013-02-07T17:31:00.002-08:002013-02-07T17:31:22.227-08:00It's official: Little Free Art Gallery taking part in "The Free Gallery" show at Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, February 26 - March 29, 2013 <br />
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Exhibition Dates: February 26 - March 29, 2013</h3>
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Artists' Reception and Free Art Launch: First Friday, March 1, 6-8pm</h3>
<i>The Free Gallery</i>, by Free Utopian Projects, is a new exhibition presenting free artwork, found objects and art ephemera to the public. <br />
<i>The Free Gallery</i> is both an interactive experience of an
alternative art economy, as well as a study of art as a consumer
product. Who makes art? Who exhibits art? Who buys art? <i>The Free Gallery</i>
explores the collapse of these distinctions by offering a subverted
gallery experience where not only admission is free, the art is too. <br />
Participating artists donate work to the exhibition to be presented
salon-style in a continually evolving cycle of giving and taking art. A
'Preview' will be held from Tuesday, February 26 to Friday, March 1 to
allow viewers an exclusive preview of items that will be available free
to the public from the Artists' Reception onwards. A practice of taking
one work per person will be encouraged. The project proprietor Jocelyn
Meggait will be onsite most gallery hours to discuss the project with
visitors, coordinate artwork, and document the selection experience.<br />
<i>The Free Gallery</i> brings a distinctly Bay Area tradition of
free community happenings - from The Digger's Free Shops in the 1960's
to thriving First Friday's in Oakland - to an exhibition experience. By
embracing the potential for visual chaos and participatory mayhem, <i>The Free Gallery</i> seeks to highlight alternative routes for accessing, valuing and experiencing art.<br />
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CALLING ALL ARTISTS TO PARTICIPATE!</h2>
To have your work included in <i>The Free Gallery</i> drop it off to Pro Arts' gallery on Saturday, February 16 between 11am and 4pm.<br />
View Pro Arts' <a href="http://www.proartsgallery.org/pdfs/StandardsForExhibitedArtwork_2012"><span style="color: #669999;">Standards of Exhibited Work</span></a> before making your donation.<br />
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<b>Participating Artists:</b> Gwynessa Balvanz, Evan Barbour,
Jennifer Brandon, Kenna Kristen Cabral, Sohyung Choi, Susanna Corcoran,
Madelyn Covey, Alix Critchley, Veva Edelson, Peter Foucault, Hilary
Galian, Matthew Gottschalk, Michael Hall, Dana Hemenway, Sarah
Herniesen, Amy M. Ho, Becky Johnson, Samuel Levi Jones, Michael Koehle,
Matthew Kowalski, Barbara Laukat, Hung Liu, Keegan Luttrell, Lauren
McDougald, Kath Irwin McGaughey, Michael Mersereau, Nadja Eulee Miller,
Doug Millison (Little Free Art Gallery), Seth Minor, Camilla Newhagen,
Sheri Leigh O'Connor, Tressa Pack, Meri Page, Chelsea Pegram, Simon
Pyle, Kate Rhoades, Alex Rubio, Kent Rodriguez Segura, Jenny Sharaf,
Sofia Sharpe, Kate Short, Kelsey Thorne, Chris Treggiari, Marilyn Treon,
Katy Warner, MAP (Mobile Arts Platform)<i>... more artists to be announced soon!</i><br />
<b>About Free Utopian Projects:</b> Free Utopian Projects is an
ongoing alternative art project exploring Utopian economic systems by
creating free, socially active installations. Curator/proprietor/artist
Jocelyn Meggait has installed Free Projects at Kala Art Institute, Mills
College Art Museum, and most recently at the alternative art space A
Temporary Offering in the Renoir Hotel, San Francisco.
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<b>About the Annual Call for Exhibition Proposals:</b> The Annual
Call for Exhibition Proposals establishes an open submission process
for artists and curators to present and produce a curated exhibition in
collaboration with Pro Arts. The program provides a platform for
exceptional and unexpected presentations of work from a range of artists
and curators.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is the press release issued today by Pro Arts: </span></span><br />
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is both an interactive experience of an alternative art economy, as
well as a study of art as a consumer product. Who makes art? Who
exhibits art? Who buys art? <i>The Free Gallery</i> explores the
collapse of these distinctions by offering a subverted gallery
experience where not only admission is free, the art is too. <br /><br />Participating
artists donate work to the exhibition to be presented salon-style in a
continually evolving cycle of giving and taking art. A 'Preview' will be
held from Tuesday, February 26 to Friday, March 1 to allow viewers an
exclusive preview of items that will be available free to the public
from the Artists' Reception onwards. A practice of taking one work per
person will be encouraged. The project proprietor Jocelyn Meggait will
be onsite most gallery hours to discuss the project with visitors,
coordinate artwork, and document the selection experience. <br /><br /><i>The Free Gallery</i>
brings a distinctly Bay Area tradition of a free community happening -
from The Digger's Free Shops in the 1960's to thriving First Friday's in
Oakland - to an exhibition experience. By embracing the potential for
visual chaos and participatory mayhem, <i>The Free Gallery</i> seeks to highlight alternative routes for accessing, valuing and experiencing art.<br /><br /><b>Participating Artists:</b>
Gwynessa Balvanz, Evan Barbour, Jennifer Brandon, Kenna Kristen Cabral,
Sohyung Choi, Susanna Corcoran, Madelyn Covey, Alix Critchley, Veva
Edelson, Peter Foucault, Hilary Galian, Matthew Gottschalk, Michael
Hall, Dana Hemenway, Sarah Herniesen, Amy M. Ho, Becky Johnson, Samuel
Levi Jones, Michael Koehle, Matthew Kowalski, Barbara Laukat, Hung Liu,
Keegan Luttrell, Lauren McDougald, Kath Irwin McGaughey, Michael
Mersereau, Nadja Eulee Miller, Doug Millison (Little Free Art Gallery),
Seth Minor, Camilla Newhagen, Sheri Leigh O'Connor, Tressa Pack, Meri
Page, Chelsea Pegram, Simon Pyle, Kate Rhoades, Alex Rubio, Kent
Rodriguez Segura, Jenny Sharaf, Sofia Sharpe, Kate Short, Kelsey Thorne,
Chris Treggiari, Marilyn Treon, Katy Warner, MAP (Mobile Arts Platform)</span></span><br />
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Free Art Launch, featuring Mobile Arts Platform, will be held on First
Friday, March 1, 6-8pm. Exhibition and events are, of course, free.</span><br /><br /><b>About Free Utopian Projects:</b> <br />Free
Utopian Projects is an ongoing alternative art project exploring
Utopian economic systems by creating free, socially active
installations. Curator/proprietor/artist Jocelyn Meggait has installed
Free Projects at Kala Art Institute, Mills College Art Museum, and most
recently at the alternative art space A Temporary Offering in the Renoir
Hotel, San Francisco. <br /><br /><b>About the Annual Call for Exhibition Proposals:</b> <br />The
Annual Call for Exhibition Proposals establishes an open submission
process for artists and curators to present and produce a curated
exhibition in collaboration with Pro Arts. The program provides a
platform for exceptional and unexpected presentations of work from a
range of artists and curators. <br /><br />For more information please contact: Amy Spencer, Program Coordinator / Curator: <a href="mailto:amy@proartsgallery.org" target="_blank">amy@proartsgallery.org</a> or <a href="tel:510-763-4361" target="_blank" value="+15107634361">510-763-4361</a></span></span><br />
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serves as a regional hub for arts activities, independent curated
exhibitions, advocacy, arts education and capacity building artist
services - fiscal sponsorship to artists and professional exhibition
services matching artists with community partners. We produce 22 exhibitions annually, exhibit over 580 artists, and reach an annual audience over 72,000.<br />
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We're making a batch of "single-serving" sized Little Free Art Galleries, using a variety of found containers that are being up-cycled, altered, decorated, and each one outfitted with a single work of original art -- to be given away for FREE at an art show opening March 1, in Oakland, California. Stay tuned for location and other details. A large number of artists are expected to give away free original art at this show.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-3337693970176062013-01-28T09:09:00.003-08:002013-02-06T21:06:37.405-08:00"When art is free, so are we." -Doug Millison, co-founder, Little Free Art Gallery Project<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-52891265953776389692013-01-25T08:31:00.000-08:002013-02-06T21:19:42.009-08:00A dream of receiving and giving free art<i>Reposting this record of a dream last spring:</i><br />
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I woke up this morning from a dream.<br />
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I took a Little Free Art Gallery someplace for a day of workshops where people would make little paintings, collages, sculptures. We finished with a ceremony before bringing in a new group for the next session.<br />
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<i>Each participant in turn approaches the Little Free Art Gallery, carrying a piece of art she made today. <br /><br />The participant opens the little gallery door and surveys the art works collected within. <br /><br />She selects a piece created by a previous workshop attendee, holds it up for the rest of us to see. In its place, she leaves a piece that she made today as a gift for somebody in the next session. She closes the little gallery door, bows, withdraws.</i><br />
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That's when I woke up. <br />
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Writing about it in my journal later, I realized we were honoring a process:<br />
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If I am lucky, I receive artistic insight that permits me to create art that is original and which can engage others. A gift to me from the universe, that's how the insight feels.<br />
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In gratitude, I choose a little piece of my art to give away for free. <br />
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You encounter my art. You give it your appreciation and attention. You spend precious time interacting with this incarnation of my artistic vision.<br />
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You select my art work and take it with you. I accept more good feeling, knowing you have chosen to receive my work as a gift because it speaks to you. <br />
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I take pleasure in the knowledge that my art will continue to evoke responses from others when they encounter it on display in your collection, or when you pass it on to another art lover.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-63723558612492982012013-01-24T20:00:00.001-08:002013-01-24T20:00:59.870-08:00Little Free Art Gallery to participate in Free: A Utopian Project's next free shop We're happy to announce that we'll be setting up a Little Free Art Gallery and will use it to distribute free original art works by Doug Millison and others, at the next free shop of the Free: A Utopian Project free shop in the San Francisco Bay Area. Location and date to be determined, stay tuned. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-A-Utopian-Project/171870759568173?group_id=0">Free: A Utopian Project</a> <a href="http://www.freecoproject.com/">http://www.freecoproject.com/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-51308038421242906152012-12-27T22:01:00.001-08:002012-12-28T21:01:52.365-08:00LFA Gallery Built on a Bicycle-wheeled Cart<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-79060380439675985232012-04-27T20:15:00.004-07:002012-04-28T16:09:52.800-07:00"Free" as in "no money"Some of us pick up discarded things and make art from them. Daniel Suelo makes a life that way…a life that amounts to a work of art, don't you think?<br />
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<a href="http://laughingsquid.com/daniel-suelo-the-american-who-quit-money-to-live-in-a-cave/?">http://laughingsquid.com/daniel-suelo-the-american-who-quit-money-to-live-in-a-cave/?</a><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-85396805346653000742012-04-26T08:54:00.003-07:002012-04-26T09:21:44.701-07:00LEGO Little Free Art GalleryDocumenting a fun concept that occurred to Doug Millison yesterday:
build a functional full-sized Little Free Art Gallery of LEGO blocks
and take it to workshops where people use it to curate a collection of
little free art works that they make in the workshop<span class="text_exposed_show"> from LEGO
blocks. And now comes the Google search to see if somebody else has had
the same idea, and indeed, not exactly a case of great minds thinking alike, but at least in the
same ball park: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Cs0B-84cuMA" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Cs0B-84cuMA</a> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-24898724466558261152012-04-26T08:14:00.000-07:002012-04-26T08:17:23.061-07:00BUMPER STICKER: "My other car is a '49 Rolling Free Art Gallery!"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Alerting custom car designers! We need a rolling art gallery! See the Call for Participation for Project "FREE ART" <a href="http://littlefreeartgallery.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://littlefreeartgallery.blogspot.com/</a> /2012/04/project-recursion.html<br />
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We can use the '49 Chevy <b>Rolling Free Art Gallery</b> to deliver Little Free Art Galleries (that will in turn disseminate little free signed, original works of art from participating artists) for on-the-spot art interventions where needed… Won't you climb on board for the ride?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862983697040911126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1299395288326095738.post-51682006851566428142012-04-23T08:48:00.003-07:002012-04-23T08:50:18.596-07:00Which is Art? Which is Junk? Why?<div class="aboveUnitContent">
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