Toronto Island Gallery Box

Apr 9

We are thrilled to announce we have installed our very own Gallery Box on Ward’s Island on the Toronto Islands. As the founder of Little Red, I was lucky enough to grow up on Toronto Island surrounded by a uniquely artistic community. We will be working on the landscaping as spring progresses and are thrilled by our very first visitor “Buddy” the cat.

Last spring, local resident artist Mitch Fenton installed the first of these gallery boxes to display a rotating work of art in front of his house. Gallery Little Red artist, Laura Shepherd, was inspired and enlisted artist Chris Foster to create her own gallery which has now grown to over 30 galleries across the community. You can check out the full list of gallery boxes on Toronto Island here.

Find our Gallery Box at 26 Lakeshore Ave!

Toronto Island is a special place to visit for it’s natural environment, unique residential community and now art galleries. You can find some of our gallery artists very own gallery boxes here:

As an online gallery we are excited for all the possibilities the physical gallery has to offer. We are inspired by the finite and small scale space for exhibiting and look at the space as a unique challenge. Although many names have been thrown around including “tiny” and “mini” galleries, the scale of opportunities are limitless. We are in the midst of planning exciting programing to be feature in our Gallery Box with the first works of art on display by Loren Kaplan.

LOREN KAPLAN, Conversations in Green, pair of vessels, stained stoneware 9” x 4” x 3.5” each — LOREN KAPLAN, *Conversations in Green,* pair of vessels, stained stoneware 9” x 4” x 3.5” each

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Our first exhibition will be for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival coming in May 2021. Altered Realities is a group show featuring gallery artists: Claudette Abrams, Anthea Baxter-Page and Berkley J. Abrams Page. We are also planning a Toronto Island Art Crawl in June. We are excited to share more information soon, so stayed tuned!

We want to acknowledge that the land Studio Little Red Gallery Box sits on is the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples as part of the city of Toronto/Tkaronto. Toronto Island is known as “Menecing” translating to “On the Island”. This place has spiritual significance to the The Mississaugas and was considered a place of healing.