{"id":92958,"date":"2025-05-07T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=92958"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:22:32","slug":"tiny-art-big-vision-a-new-home-for-bayers-miniature-marvels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/tiny-art-big-vision-a-new-home-for-bayers-miniature-marvels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Art, Big Vision: A New Home for Bayer\u2019s Miniature Marvels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Through the window’s of The Tiny Gallery, visitors can view Bayer\u2019s playful and intimate installation of miniature homes and domestic scenes.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Tiny Art Show is back. Again. After an eviction, a Kickstarter campaign, excellent location scouting and some fabulous fine carpentry, the art project that says go little or go home has a new permanent space in downtown Provo.\u2028Ever since McKay Lenker Bayer<\/a> decided to satisfy a college assignment to publicly display her artwork by going twee, the Tiny Art Show has been encouraging viewers to crouch down, peer in, and experience art at a radically reduced scale. From tiny invitations to petite hors d\u2019oeuvres, Bayer embraces the entire art ecosystem at Alice-in-Wonderland scale. Since 2018, she has curated tiny pop-up exhibits for artists in unexpected places, from the floorboards of museums and shopping malls to a utility box and even New York\u2019s Central Park.<\/h4>\n

Last year, Tiny Art Show found a more\u2014and then less\u2014permanent home in Provo\u2019s newly opened Alma Gallery. At the back of the space formerly occupied by Writ and Vision, Baker was invited to build out a cubby halfway up a flight of stairs. It was just enough room to crouch in and examine a dozen or more playing-card size artworks. She mounted several successful and popular shows until she was asked to leave in February.<\/h4>\n

The shows may have been too popular. \u201cIt became its own creative force,\u201d says Alma Gallery owner Tyler Alexander. \u201cWith Alma\u2019s very limited staff, we just couldn\u2019t operate both entities\u2014especially since, despite sharing the word \u2018gallery,\u2019 they were really two very separate things. I was really glad to see the Tiny Gallery carve out its own space\u2014it ended up being a much better fit for both galleries.\u201d<\/h4>\n