Completed outdoor installation of the handmade Giving Gallery

The Giving Gallery

The world’s smallest free gallery.

All Art Is Free
Take a work, leave a work, or sign the guestbook.

One practice. Two projects.

The Giving Gallery cabinet with its “All Art Is Free” message

The Giving Gallery

A handmade wooden gallery where Stein places artworks for visitors to encounter. The gallery itself is the work: small in scale, public in purpose, and built around access rather than transaction.

Red and green Art Drops panel works arranged in the studio

Art Drops

A separate, ongoing project in which Stein gift-wraps artworks and leaves them in public locations for unknown recipients. Each drop is documented with images, date, time, geographic location, and the work placed.


Both projects grow from five years of The Giving Project and Stein’s MFA work in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts.