THE GNOME PROJECT
About the Gnome Project
The Gnome Project is a community art project rooted in the belief that the chance encounters we have in our everyday lives can affect the world in ways we may never fully understand. The anonymous act of moving a gnome along for someone else to find is its own reward.
It is part discovery, part connection, and part letting go.
The project has its heart in Eglon, a small community in Kitsap County, Washington, and from here, gnomes have been released into the wild since 2024. More than 150 have been released so far, with their travels taking them from the shores of Puget Sound across the country, into Europe, down to Mexico, and across the Pacific to Hawaii.
If you have found one, please pass it on. The next person who finds it will have you to thank for it.
The People Who Move Them
These are some of the people who have found the gnomes and carried them along. Their photographs and shared encounters have become part of the project’s history.
