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Welcome to the Egan Street Gallery

a virtual gallery featuring traditional fridge art

If you think a fridge-art gallery sounds crazy, you clearly have children. It's safe to say your fridge either is or has been overrun with brightly colored abstracts from your child's fecund hands. Not every fridge enjoys regular updates from future Pollocks and Picassos, though. While parents struggle with the sometimes staggering volume of art bursting forth from art rooms and play tables, fridges in childless homes suffer under the weight of a few lonely magnets, a grocery list, and the unbearable blankness of the fridge front. It's a sad state, which is why we decided to remedy our plight by actively soliciting fridge art from friends with children. 

Over the years, our fridge has sported the vibrant creations crafted by various children in our lives. The colors, the imagination, the recklessness, and the glorious audacity that goes into a kid's artwork make them all real treats for us.

After a while, it seemed hardly fair to keep them to ourselves, so we asked around to make sure it was okay with the young artists and their parents if we post them in an online gallery. Everyone whose art appears on this blog gave us her/his blessing.

While the Egan Street Gallery primarily serves to exhibit received pieces, we hope it also inspires young artists to go to their drawing pads and share their newest visions with us (and our fridge). Rest assured, young artists will find our jury process generous and the jury grateful. It is our hope that we can occasionally host artists and their parents for an installation of new works of art (we supply the fridge magnets, obviously). We just have to work out what red wine goes best with homemade chocolate chip cookies....

So don't be shy. Submit your pieces for consideration, and our giddy gallery curators will send a formal letter of gratitude in reply.

Or just poke around our current and past exhibits where you will find the joyful and imaginative offerings of our young friends. 

Thank you for checking in on us!

Cheers,

msn

Curator and Jury Member

of Egan Street Gallery

(a.k.a.: Auntie M.)