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| "When art is free, so are we." -Doug Millison, co-founder, LittleFreeArtGallery.com |
Monday, January 28, 2013
"When art is free, so are we." -Doug Millison, co-founder, Little Free Art Gallery Project
Friday, January 25, 2013
A dream of receiving and giving free art
Reposting this record of a dream last spring:
I woke up this morning from a dream.
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.
Each participant in turn approaches the Little Free Art Gallery, carrying a piece of art she made today.
The participant opens the little gallery door and surveys the art works collected within.
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.
That's when I woke up.
Writing about it in my journal later, I realized we were honoring a process:
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.
In gratitude, I choose a little piece of my art to give away for free.
You encounter my art. You give it your appreciation and attention. You spend precious time interacting with this incarnation of my artistic vision.
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.
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.
I woke up this morning from a dream.
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.
Each participant in turn approaches the Little Free Art Gallery, carrying a piece of art she made today.
The participant opens the little gallery door and surveys the art works collected within.
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.
That's when I woke up.
Writing about it in my journal later, I realized we were honoring a process:
Art Making → Curating → Exhibiting → Receiving → Giving
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.
In gratitude, I choose a little piece of my art to give away for free.
You encounter my art. You give it your appreciation and attention. You spend precious time interacting with this incarnation of my artistic vision.
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.
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.
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| photo by Doug Millison |
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Little 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. Free: A Utopian Project http://www.freecoproject.com/
Thursday, December 27, 2012
LFA Gallery Built on a Bicycle-wheeled Cart
Project/concept:
Little Free Art Gallery Built on a Bicycle Cart for Deployment at Community Events
images for: bicycle wheel cart
https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle+wheel+cart&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=4EU&tbo=u&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DzTdULeOFMzriQLSoIG4CA&ved=0CF4QsAQ&biw=1086&bih=820
http://www.bicyclecart.com/wp-content/themes/revolution-30/images/bicycle-wheel.jpg
http://www.velo-city.org/diy-trailers/flickr-xddorox-201520771_21429090c7.web.jpg
Restart
Restarting LITTLE FREE ART GALLERY project. Little Free Art Gallery No. 1 portable/mobile demonstration unit construction has begun. Seek partners interested in participating and integrating this project in appropriate community settings.
Friday, April 27, 2012
"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/?
http://laughingsquid.com/daniel-suelo-the-american-who-quit-money-to-live-in-a-cave/?
Thursday, April 26, 2012
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
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