Now on display

LAND BACK:

A Tiny Gallery Takeover in Lenapehoking

curated by Jennifer Ley

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month and Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge/Native Art at the Montclair Art Museum, Tiny Gallery presents Land Back featuring collections from seven contemporary Native artists installed in six Tiny Galleries across Montclair, Glen Ridge, and Bloomfield, New Jersey—all part of Lenapehoking, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape people.

Art allows us to examine the past, interpret the present, and envision the future, and Ley’s curation of Land Back brings the stories of Indigenous Americans, too often dismissed or overlooked, forward.

One of Tiny Gallery’s missions is to bring artistic voices that may not normally be heard into communities and present them in a new context and we feel incredibly privileged to be able to collaborate with renowned Native artists.

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Our Mission

  • Tiny is a Discovery

    Tiny Gallery’s mission is to make creating, exhibiting, and collecting art more inclusive by disrupting the idea of what fine art can be.

  • Tiny is Wondrous

    Our network of compact box-sized art galleries on front lawns, in public spaces, and at education centers feature small works, ranging from two to four inches, by local and national artists. Each Tiny Gallery is meant to challenge the notion that small isn’t serious by introducing the sublime into our everyday lives.

  • Tiny is Anywhere

    Since creating small work doesn’t require a studio, vast square footage to be displayed, and is easily portable, Tiny Gallery provides a platform for underrepresented, emerging, mid-career, and established artists to reach a wider, more diverse audience while expanding the public’s access to fine art.

Tiny Gallery aims to:

  • Introduce a moment of wonder into our everyday lives

  • Expand opportunities for artists simply by changing the scale  

  • Challenge the notion that small isn’t serious

  • Activate under-recognized art regions

  • Provide a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists 

  • Expand public access to fine art in unconventional ways