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In the news: Nashville, Tennessee

Nash Today reports on Nashville’s recently opened Free Little Art Gallery on Petway Avenue. You can read the article here. The curators, Jan and Amelia Weiss, have been busy, coordinating with local businesses and planning an event of some kind for April 19th, 2025. Zoom in to the gallery on the map. If you visit the gallery’s Instagram feed, you will also see they’ve been making mini-models of the gallery to put up on bulletin boards around town. These are so cute. Nice going on the community outreach, Jan and Amelia!

In the News: Baton Rouge Little Free Art Library

Yesterday’s issue of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had an article about an art supply exchange. This isn’t a Free Little Art Gallery, but a place to leave or take the raw materials of art. Sponsored by The Walls Project, this not only helps people create without needing to spend a lot of money, but is a great way for artists — by which I mean everyone who creates art — to avoid waste and to try new materials without buying a lot of stuff you might end up not using. Oh course, we… Read More »In the News: Baton Rouge Little Free Art Library

ATX Today article about FLAGs

ATX Today, a news outlet in Austin, Texas, has posted a brief article titled How to find a Free Little Art Gallery near you, with descriptions of Austin’s several galleries and links to this site and others. You can read the article here.

LAist article about FLAGs

Brian De Los Santos of “LAist” just published an article about Free Little Art Galleries, with quotes from Tyler Tork, our website manager. Link to article

SustainabITALY

Every day on my way to teach at an international school in Rome, Italy, I passed by an empty hole in a wall that more often than not was a dumping ground for beer bottles and trash. Every day I muttered to myself that this would be an excellent place for artwork. Would it be legal to take over the space? Could I be fined or arrested? What would community members say? What if someone did not like what I put on display? What gives me the right to transform the space? All these questions… Read More »SustainabITALY

In the news: Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Beaver County’s first Free Little Art Gallery finds a home in New Brighton – Beaver County Radio A grand opening of the New Brighton Free Little Art Gallery is scheduled for November 2nd 2024 from 11:30am to 1:30pm. Food and refreshments will be served following the opening ceremony.