Forget Tiny Houses—It's Time for Tiny Artist Studios

The little building with corrugated tin siding and brown wood accents sits on a trailer hitch in the shadow of the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, right near the magnificent World’s Fair Unisphere. The door is open, revealing a tidy, welcoming space filled with screen-printed textiles and photographs. It’s a hot and humid day, but the interior is cool and inviting thanks to an air conditioner that only has to run a few minutes at a time, because the little structure is so well-insulated.

In the doorway, broom in hand, is Esther Robinson, one of the people responsible for this appealing structure. “Come on in,” she says. “We’re just sweeping.” It’s an impossible invitation to resist. And that is part of the point.