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The Mini Formats — Art at Hand Size in a Town Without Walls to Hang It

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Small-format art in this town lives where small towns keep it: school shows, church and fair tables, and the park festival. No miniature-art society, dollhouse or model circle, or small-format exhibition under the town's name appears in the exempt register or the club and society directories reached — the St. Joseph County Public Library's Clubs, Societies, and Organizations collection, whose inventory runs from the 1890s to 2015, is the county's settler for such bodies, and no Lakeville mini-format body is named in the material reached. What is documented is the practice at its ordinary size: student art shown through the schools and Art in the Park's outdoor showing. The item closes at that true size — a practice visible, an institution absent, and the absence searched rather than assumed.

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Source: The Mini Formats — Art at Hand Size in a Town Without Walls to Hang It, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/arts/mini-formats-art-at-hand-size-in-a-town/