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Janet moved, fortuitously and unknowingly, into a live/work storefront in July of 2006 and opened it up as an art space, music venue, community center September 16th, 2006. The space was lit by Christmas lights, and Ariel's sketches were posted on the wall by pins. Andrew Arduini, Matt Fishbeck, and others also shared their artwork. The opening was celebrated with a few people, with Matt performing as Holy Shit in 3 in the morning. Everyone then sat in a circle and read from Andrew's God's Masseuse until the sun came up. Tiny Creatures was orginally intended for friends to have a space to share art and music outside of their bedrooms and to encourage a public showing of their work. However, Tiny Creatures grew more than Janet expected, and somehow, Tiny Creatures has ended up in Art Forum, and other such magazines. Janet has organized more than 10 major art openings and closings, music shows, movie screenings, art talks, crafts and arts nights, and so on, of course with the help of other Tiny Creatures. She is proud to host artists such as Tall Paul, Matt Fishbeck, Ariel Pink, Rachel Detroit, and Andrew Arduini, and to host events curated by No Age, Family Bookstore, and the Smell. Tiny Creatures Mission Statement: tiny creatures is a desire to find a way to live our own way, to have a sense of community, to see each other while on earth, to share our lives, our pain, our talents, our thoughts, to capture a moment in time that will be lost or forgotten, and to package it with beauty, love, pain and all that we can feel as humans. with tiny creatures, we are making this small community of los angeles artists available to the wider world, or perhaps, the wider world available to us. The future of Tiny Creatures is just as dubious as its beginnings. Tiny Creatures opened its doors as a music school January of 2008 and since then has taught (and continues to teach) about 25 adults how to play basic piano. It has been fun. Tiny Creatures plans to take its art shows to Mexicali and Paris, and in the future to London and Tokyo. Tiny Creatures hopes to continue to inspire exciting art and music, to create a way for tiny creatures to live the lives they desire to live, and to live it beautifully and creatively, with every sorrow and pain that is meant to come in tiny creatures' way. Tiny Creatures was named after a Shadow Ring 7 inch. About Janet Janet knows nothing about art more than the average person. She perhaps has an unusual mind, but that which is somewhat discerning. She feels very idealistic about things, but realistic as well. Her immigrant upbringing and half-aristocratic roots is very telling of who she is. She feels very poor and very rich at the same time all the time. She tends to know a lot about music and teaches it to anyone willing to learn for very affordable prices at tiny creatures. She also performs as an Eggy with her partner Ben in an art-pop-rock group called Softboiled Eggies. She has been a musician all her life, has played piano since she was born, and feels that Softboiled Eggies is a culmination of her musical and poetic life as of yet. So oblige her and listen to it if you feel like it. Also please support Tiny Creatures somehow. You can pay pal money, come join our email list, or just come to our events and buy art. Thank you. |