Follow Stay Home Gallery on Instagram

One of the bright spots of living through this pandemic is being able to see all the innovations that arise as people grapple with staying home for such an extended amount of time. Just as the COVID-19 pandemic began to change reality in America, artist-curators Pam Marlene Taylor and Kaylan Buteyn started a series of Instagram posts under the rubric Stay Home Gallery. The series took off, and after amassing a few thousand followers and a grant from Metro Arts, they opened an additional artist residency in bucolic Paris, Tenn., and have published a book that chronicles the artwork that’s been exhibited so far. If you haven’t been following Stay Home Gallery since the account popped up in early March, I recommend starting immediately, and then scrolling through the early posts on the virtual gallery’s grid. Stay Home began with weekly Instagram exhibitions, like Fidgeting, which featured work by exceptional artists Andrea Joyce Heimer and Annie Brito Hodgin, to name two. The concept is innovative, the timing is perfect, and the work is solid and often extremely affordable. Follow at@stayhomegallery on Instagram — and pay attention to whatever Taylor and Buteyn do next. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER