"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?

http://laughingsquid.com/daniel-suelo-the-american-who-quit-money-to-live-in-a-cave/?

LEGO Little Free Art Gallery

Documenting 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 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:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Cs0B-84cuMA 

BUMPER STICKER: "My other car is a '49 Rolling Free Art Gallery!"

'49 Chevy bookmobile photo found online at http://www.bookofjoe.com/2012/04/1949-chevy-bookmobile.html

Alerting custom car designers! We need a rolling art gallery! See the Call for Participation for Project "FREE ART" http://littlefreeartgallery.blogspot.com/ /2012/04/project-recursion.html


We can use the '49 Chevy Rolling Free Art Gallery 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?

Which is Art? Which is Junk? Why?

photo by Doug Millison

photo from Free: A Utopian Project (click to link to the project)

Check out the new ART WORKS tab

The  Art Works page presents a curated archive of up-to-date information about original art works distributed via Little Free Art Galleries to date, newest exhibits listed first. (Links to individual artist and art work pages will come later, after the list of works grows too long.) The information in the Art Works archive comes from by Little Free Art Gallery owners and installation curators via the LittleFreeArtGallery.com blog, and other sources.

http://littlefreeartgallery.blogspot.com/p/art-works-distributed-via-little-free.html

On Inspiration, Cross-Pollination, and a Birdhouse

I’m an artist (part-time, with a day job) now, but in a previous life I was a librarian - and I still spend any time left over from my job and my artwork reading books books books. So back in March, when I saw a posting on Facebook for the Little Free Library , my first thought - oh, cool -- scattered personal small libraries where you can just pick up a book, leave one off .. My second thought was, well - how about a little free art gallery? I do sell my original artwork and crafts, but I also give a lot of it away, and I loved the idea of freely sharing small pieces with people who would give my art a good home.  A natural fit would be artist trading cards, which are miniature works of art, only 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (63 mm X 89 mm) and are traded or exchanged, but not meant to be sold. This is an artist trading card I made using lutradur on which I printed a double exposure photograph that I took of myself some years ago.

My goals are to inspire: inspire others to enjoy, appreciate and value art, to make their own original art, to share art pieces freely, to collaborate on art projects with friends and neighbors, to foster community … and much more!

I’m a photo-based artist. I use my original nature photographs as a leaping-off point for my images and designs. So for my first Little Free Art Gallery, I am decorating a small plain birdhouse that I will fill with some of my artwork (bird-related, perhaps?), and hang it from a tree in front of our house. Stay tuned for photos of my progress and the Gallery when it’s in place!

The "Gift Box" XXXS Single-Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery

Ideal for indoor give-away installations, on the counter next to a cash register for example. (Photos by Doug Millison).

Front view, "Gift Box" XXXS Single Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery, photo by Doug Millison

Side view, "Gift Box" XXXS Single Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery, photo by Doug Millison

Box opened, rear angle view, "Gift Box" XXXS Single Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery, photo by Doug Millison

Box opened, side view, "Gift Box" XXXS Single Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery, photo by Doug Millison

Box opened, front angle view, "Gift Box" XXXS Single Serving Size Little Free Art Gallery, photo by Doug Millison