Little Free Art Box Project

05/30/2026

The weather is beautiful and summer is right around the corner! Our June event calendar is here, and we're excited for a great month ahead of us!

Here's the happenings this month:
🌈 June 5th ~ Create-Your-Own Bookmarks at Ari's Art Exchange
🌈 June 12th-15th ~ June Jam Festival at Playa Ponderosa
🌈 June 27th ~ Farm Addiction Market at C-A-L Ranch

We also have our semi-permanent Art Box locations for June:
🌈 Trash Panda Thrift and Community Support Center
🌈 Ari's Art Exchange
🌈 Velvet Sol Market

Come to an event or visit an Art Box at one of their locations! You never know what you might find inside, or what you might create at an event!

05/29/2026

✨✨ATTENTION JUNE JAMMERS! ✨✨

We're seeking donations of fun and tradeable festival items for the Little Free Art Box Project! We will be out at June Jam with THREE Art Boxes this year! We can't wait to spread smiles, but we're asking for some help!

We're looking for things like small pieces of art (12" and smaller); kandi; stickers; perlers; mini figurines; keychains; magnets; zines; trinkets and treasures!! Basically, anything that's got a fun vibe that you might like to stumble across at a festival!!

If you have a bunch of items that you'd like to donate to the Project, please reach out to us on Instagram to coordinate a donation drop before or during the event!! We will stock the Art Boxes with your goodies, so you don't have to worry about it! If you've got just a few things that you'd like to contribute, please visit the Art Boxes across Playa!!

This Project is about community gifting. It's about treasure trading! We want people to find something special that speaks out to them, but also leave something magical behind for someone else to discover!! We know that festival-goers get this philosophy, which is why the Art Boxes are so successful at events like June Jam. There's such a great sense of community, fun, and curiosity. That's right up our alley!!

Come check out the festival!! Weekend passes are still available, as well as 2-day and single-day passes!! Head to JuneJamFestival.com to grab your passes, tell a friend, and come dance under the stars!!

05/25/2026

We have our first official Lost and Found item! If you stopped by the Little Free Art Box tent on Saturday's Farm Addiction Market!! Please contact us if this water bottle is yours!

05/24/2026

We had fun today at the !! Thank you so much for having us, and thank you to all who created with us!!

05/20/2026

05/19/2026

✨✨ Once upon a time... there was magic to be found between the pages of a beautiful story. ✨✨

Stories and creativity collide at our next interactive First Friday workshop where we’ll be creating our own bookmarks - small, meaningful pieces that hold our places in the stories we love, and the ones we’re still writing. 📖🔖

Come create, connect, and leave with a little piece of magic to mark your place in your favorite story. It’s simple, it’s creative, and it’s a chance to slow down and make something with your hands alongside others. 🎨

🗓 Friday, June 5th
🕒 5–8pm
📍 13 N San Francisco st. (downstairs)
🌟Free, All Ages Event

05/17/2026

We had a great time yesterday! We took an Art Box from Flagstaff, AZ to Ash Fork, AZ for the Route 66 Heritage Day at ! Our coloring table was a great success! Thank you for having us! ✨️

05/17/2026

WE HAVE A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣📣

WE’RE HEADED BACK TO PLAYA PONDEROSA IN JUST 3 SHORT WEEKS!! 🌲

The Little Free Art Boxes are officially returning to June Jam and our hearts are so full. ✨️

If you’ve been, you know… four days in the pines, music drifting through the forest, art tucked into every corner, strangers becoming friends, and the kind of magic you can’t quite put into words.

Getting to bring the Art Boxes back into that space feels so special.

We’ll be out there again - inviting you to create something, leave something, take something… little pieces of connection scattered throughout the forest.

This festival is all about what we build together, and we’re so excited to add to it with you.

Let’s make art in the woods, wander, connect, and dance under the stars 🕺💫

See you in the pines - June 12-15 🌲💖

05/08/2026

We’re gearing up to bring the Art Box out on the road to Ash Fork's Route 66 Heritage Day!! ✨

Join us on Saturday, May 16th from 10am–3pm for a community craft table full of creativity as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Historic Route 66!🛣️

We’ll have Route 66–themed coloring pages and our Create-Your-Own Card station --> perfect for sending a little piece of your journey home. Alongside it, you’ll find an Art Box.. a tiny roadside stop filled with creative surprises, where something unexpected might be waiting to be discovered! 🎨

Whether you’re passing through or staying awhile, come pull over, take a creative break, and be part of this once-in-a-century celebration.

Want to support more free art in the community? Scan our Venmo QR at the table to donate.💛