Tacoma's Telephone Room Gallery on KPLU

Did you catch the little piece on one of Tacoma’s littlest galleries on KPLU yesterday?

The tiny alternative art space known as the Telephone Room Gallery is located in a private home in North Tacoma – in the room that was built as a private place to take phone calls, and which houses an old, still functioning rotary telephone.

According to the KPLU story, Ellen Ito, artist and co-curator of the space wants people to start thinking of the Telephone Room “less as a space and more as a concept.” The Telephone room is beginning to expand its vision, with events like the “I Am,” this year at the Tacoma Art Museum, and other possibilities still in the works.

After visiting the Telephone Room last year, Exit133’s Arts in Review wrote about the gallery’s mission “to house artist-driven exhibits and programming. Big ideas in an intimate space.” We think the opportunity the Telephone Room offers for personal, up close experiences and interaction with art and artists is pretty unique, and we’re glad to hear that it’s going strong, and growing. We look forward to seeing the intimacy and creativity of that little space expand.

The Telephone Room is pretty small as galleries go, but it’s not the world’s smallest gallery, it’s not even Tacoma’s smallest gallery. According to the Telephone Room blog “The Tollbooth Gallery, coincidentally also in Tacoma, is the world’s smallest gallery

Listen to the full story of the from KPLU, and visit the Telephone Room blog for more on the little gallery with the big ideas.