TINY ART GALLERIES [T.A.G.s]
Have you ever wanted to visit a fancy museum, pottery studio or print shop but haven’t had the time or resources? Then you’ll love our newest public art project! Tiny Art Galleries (TAGs) are accessible miniature versions of these spaces featuring art by local residents, students, community members and professional artists from far and wide. Here’s where you can find them and what they are all about. Be sure to stop by all three during your next visit to Vermilion.
Now Showing: Spring 2026
Tiny Art Gallery No. 1
Sharing Art Since May 25, 2024
Gallery Run Continuous
Artist Supplied by the Community/ Ongoing
Location Vermilion High School
Description Free Exchange Gallery for everyone to take art, leave art, or both.
Sponsor Jim & Sue Forthofer/ Vermilion Educator's Free Exchange Gallery
Tiny Art Gallery No. 2
Gallery Run September 1, 2026 through December 1, 2026
Artist The Bryant-Daly Family: Erica, Jon, & Ollie
Location Ritter Public Library
Sponsor Dick and Debby Zanglin
Bio “We’re just a family who loves taking pictures together. Taking pictures is how I process the world around me. It’s also how I remember things (my memory without my camera roll is nearly non-existent). My love for photography has quickly rubbed off on Jon and Ollie and it’s given us an excuse to adventure around and take in the world together as a family. Whether we're spending an afternoon wandering around downtown Cleveland, exploring the shoreline of Sandusky, or traveling to other cities, you can almost always catch us with cameras in tow, snapping photos of whatever catches our collective eye.” — Erica Bryant
Tiny Art Gallery No. 3
Gallery Run September 1, 2026 through December 1, 2026
Artist Ali Pulito
Location Main Street Vermilion
Sponsor Martin Family/The Frank & Ruth Martin Memorial Gallery
Bio Ali Pulito is a Lorain-based music maker and multidisciplinary art enthusiast working across music, watercolor, doodling, and photos taken on walks. Music was a first creative language, and the rest of her practice has grown from a similar impulse: to notice, collect, and make something from the small things that might otherwise pass by. Her visual work embraces play and imperfection, using loose marks, intuitive color, and observation as a way of loosening the need to get things exactly right.
Rooted between the fields and Lake Erie shores, Ali is drawn to the ordinary ecology of a place—changing water, weeds and wildflowers, small creatures, neighborhood landmarks, weather, and the peculiar details of everyday life. Across mediums, her work is less about faithfully documenting what she sees than recording the experience of paying attention: small field notes about being here.
