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: Winter 2025/26

Tiny Art Gallery No. 1

Date Unveiled 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 March 1, 2026 thru June 1, 2026
Artist Sarah Coulter
Location Ritter Public Library
Sponsor Dick and Debby Zanglin
Bio Sarah is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with handmade and historical photography processes. 

She grew up on the west side of Cleveland, spending her youth getting into trouble, thumbing through record bins on Madison Avenue, getting lost deep in the metroparks and going to punk gigs on school nights.

Sarah graduated from Kent State with a degree in photography and art history. After college, she juggled three jobs - working as a full time photo assistant, a door guy at a local dive bar and managing a stand at the west side market until landing a gig with Paramount in NYC where she has been for the past 13 years and currently serves as Director of Photography for Paramount+.

After a few years working in entertainment photography, she started to feel a bit burnt out and pursued a postgrad program at The International Center for Photography where she exclusively focused on analog processes. It was here where she fell in love the wet plate collodion process and making tintypes. She has studied under many masters of the craft across the country refining her craft. She has shot tintypes for shows such as Yellowstone, 1883 and Bass Reeves as well as shot many editorial features and campaigns on film and digital for multiple Paramount titles over the past decade.

There’s a saying about Clevelanders who venture off “they always come back”, and Sarah came back a couple years ago and opened up Cleveland’s only tintype studio - Celluloid Vintage and Tintype located on the west side. She resides in a Usonian dream house backing up into the metroparks in Berea with her dog and two cats.

Sarah is passionate about sharing her art (and lost photographic processes!) with the community. She is very excited to bring her art to Vermilion and share the magic of lost processes with you.

Tiny Art Gallery No. 3

Gallery Run March 1, 2026 thru June 1, 2026
Artist John Sapienza
Location Main Street Vermilion
Sponsor Martin Family/The Frank & Ruth Martin Memorial Gallery
Bio John enjoys creating things in all media but specifically gravitates towards pen, paper, acrylic paints and woodworking. John loves catch and release fishing, something he did with his grandpa as a child. “When I started I really enjoyed collecting the pretty lures whether vintage or current, I quickly learned how to build my own. Only a few of my lures have actually caught a fish but there is little as rewarding for me as spending a few days cutting, glueing, carving, sanding, painting, and hanging hooks and watching one of my lures swim and present like a fish. It’s a sort of a perfect union of my day job skills and leisure time hobbies”.