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A Creative Spark From Tiny Art

Katrina Lyon and The Little Free Art Gallery

WRITTEN BY MARISSA MULJAT PHOTOGRAPHED BY KATRINA LYON

PICTURE AN ART GALLERY. What do you see? Perhaps a large building with pieces carefully and thoughtfully lined up on the walls, each work of art unique. Now picture that same gallery, but one thousand times smaller.

The Little Free Art Gallery is an extremely petite art gallery located in Bellingham near the corner of West Street and Eldridge Avenue. Freelance graphic designer Katrina Lyon built it in May of this year as a hobby.

Before the gallery, Lyon was already interested in creating her own miniature “scenes.” She accomplished this by arranging tiny human figurines in nature and then photographing the results. When a friend sent her an article about Stacy Milrany starting the Little Free Art Gallery in Seattle, Lyon became eager to make one of her own. She ordered a “gallery” online and painted it inside and out. Thus, a Bellingham Little Free Art Gallery was born.