Make some art for our 2025 Tiny Art Show! Your only limit is a 4x4" canvas: use any art style or medium you like as long as it fits. For all ages.
Submission requirements:
- All submissions must be submitted by 5:00pm on Sunday, April 27, 2025 to the circulation desk at the library's temporary location in the Heritage Hotel.
- Submissions must be on supplied 4x4” canvases, but can be any medium or style as long as they are on or attached to the provided canvas (painting, drawing, sewing, etc.) and not more than 2 inches thick. Canvases can be picked up any time during the library's open hours:
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 11am-5:30pm
- Tuesday, Thursday: 11am-7pm
- Saturday: 11am-4pm
- Sunday: 1pm-5pm
- There is no age or town residency requirement for submitting artists.
Important Dates:
- April 1 through 27: Canvases available for pickup from the library's circulation desk at the Heritage Hotel
- Tuesday, April 8: Drop In Paint Day! Work on a painting for our Tiny Art Show in a supportive group environment! We'll be in the Mat Room of the Parks & Recreation Building at 561 Main Street South.
- Sunday, April 13: Kits including paints and brushes available for pick up from the library's circulation desk at the Heritage Hotel while supplies last
- Sunday, April 27: All submissions are due by 5:00pm to the library's circulation desk at the Heritage Hotel
- May 1-31: Tiny Art Show on display at the library's location in the Heritage Hotel
After the show is over, artists will be contacted at the information provided in their submission form to let them know their art can be picked up.
Our Tiny Art Show is sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library.
Our 2024 Tiny Art Show was mounted upstairs in the Teen Department from February 22 through March 22, 2024.
We had 177 pieces of art submitted to us by a wide variety of our community members, ranging in age from 4 months to 89 years old. Materials used include paint, colored pencils, crayons, encaustic wax, 3d pens, egg shells, beads, handmade marbled paper, polymer clay, and more!
Arranging and coordinating our Tiny Art Show was the Senior Project of Trey Brattain, Pomperaug High School Class of 2025, longtime library volunteer, and recipient of a 2024 Friends of the Southbury Public Library Scholarship.
Our 2024 Tiny Art Show was sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library.