Butterflies’ Garden Party
In 2018 TINY GALLERY initiated a collaboration between the parent-artist Mia Nolting and the preschool students of Ray’s Butterfly classroom at Helen Gordon. The class travelled to TINY GALLERY for field trips to paint flowers with Mia, and constructed a butterfly mural out of fabric. During Converge 45 the students’ watercolors were exhibited alongside Mia’s work in a gallery booth curated by Ray (co-founder of TINY GALLERY) at KSMoCA International Art Fair.
process-based &
Oftentimes young people’s interests and intuitions with materials get overpowered by adult’s trainings on - and languages about - “art”.
TINY GALLERY emphasized the process of creating, sharing feelings, and collaborating with friends.
For this project, the Butterflies created a mural out of found fabrics, cutting and ironing and gluing together. Learning how to hang and exhibit an artwork was part of the process of creating it.
collaboratively installed b/c
Art is Interactive
TINY GALLERY created a passport and custom stamp so that young visitors to Converge 45 could have a way to engage other booths at the KSMoCA International Art Fair.