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January 19, 2017
The Story Center at Mid-Continent Public Library
We’ve chatted with the crew at Mid-Continent Public Library before, particularly for a series about their serial fiction project, “The Timely Adventures of Rachel Evans”. Today we’re talking with Andie Paloutzian, Story Center Program Manager, who fills us in on the fantastic suite of resources and programs for writers known as the Story Center. Thank you to Emily Brown, Public Relations Coordinator, for organizing this feature for us!
From the Story Center website:
The Story Center will offe...
January 18, 2017
Detour by Anne Wu at Mid-Manhattan Library
Today’s feature comes to us from visual artist Anne Wu, whose work titled Detour is installed in The Corner Room at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library. Thanks to Curator and Art Librarian Arezoo Moseni for her help in assembling this feature. ~Laura
by Anne Wu
Situated in the street-level vitrines flanking the main entrance to the Mid-Manhattan Library, my installation, Detour, is comprised of two sets of plaster sculptures. In each window, five freestanding panels are placed one in front of th...
January 17, 2017
Featuring Book Artist Ioulia Akhmadeeva
“Bukvar/ Essay of a protest.” Laser print from author’s first elementary school book (1978, DDR, URSS), historical images printed in laser on mylar plate.
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.
Ioulia Akhmadeeva (IA):I was born in 1971 in Krasnodar, Russia. Now I live and work in Mexico as a visual artist, working in printmaking and artist’s books. My artistic production consists in 95 group exhibitions and 10 single shows. At the moment I’m a...
January 14, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of January 8, 2017
Top Features Get your boogie on in Storytime! This week’s Book to Boogie features Little Cloud. We fell in LOVE with Katie Hudnall’s work for the Public Collection. Think large-scale, sculptural Little Free Library. Virtual reality certainly has great entertainment value, but its educational accessibility offers an even greater advantage for eager, experimenting minds. Check out what the folks at the University are doing with it: VR For All Seasons
Around the Web In Melbourne, ENESS desi...
January 12, 2017
Featuring: The Public Collection & Katie Hudnall
Today we have the pleasure of speaking with artist and educator Katie Hudnall, whose work caught my eye when I was exploring the designs that make up the Public Collection, a series of public art pieces (think large-scale Little Free Libraries) in Indianapolis. We spoke with Katie about her work and her relationship to libraries. Enjoy! ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.
Katie Hudnall (KH): I teach Furniture Design & Woodworki...
January 11, 2017
Book to Boogie: Little Cloud
Book to Boogie is a monthly series that pairs picture books with dance and movement activities for preschool story time. The series is curated by Kerry Aradhya of Picture Books & Pirouettes and written by a different guest writer each month. We hope that children’s librarians, as well as classroom teachers and dance educators, will find these activities useful and fun!
by Jill Randall
The theme of clouds is a playful starting point for exploring light/heavy, high/low, and actions such as floa...
January 10, 2017
VR FOR ALL SEASONS!
byAyra Sundbom and Ian Boucher
Virtual reality (VR) certainly has great entertainment value, but its educational accessibility offers an even greater advantage for eager, experimenting minds. VR can enhance and deepen the learner’s experience by taking students on journeys to impossible places, like the Moon, the respiratory system, or the inside of a cell. Libraries, in turn, can open that gateway and offer a series of unique community inspirations like no other institution.
As with any new...
January 6, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of January 2, 2017
Happy New Year! We’re glad to be ushering in 2017, not least because we have an important call for content on the website for this year. We want to fill up this year’s Incubator with stories of libraries making space and building support for the marginalized in their communities– particularly people of color– through art and creativity. If you have a story like that, we want to hear from you–please submit!
This week we got back into the swing of things after a much-needed break, sharing some...
December 29, 2016
State Library of Queensland: Sing Me a Library
This year we have the distinct pleasure of hosting updates from Dr. Matt Finch, with whom we’ve worked on a number of LAIP features, as he serves as Creative in Residence at the State Library of Queensland, Australia. Today Matt fills us in on a number of music-focused, library-incubated projects and explores ways that libraries of different types can support the work and creative life of musicians and audio artists.
by Matt Finch
Take those pieces of information you store, those cultural art...
December 28, 2016
New Year’s Resolution: Submit your stories of “Inclusive Creativity” to the 2017 Library as Incubator Project
image via museumofeverydaylife.org
Since we launched in 2011,the Library as Incubator Project has worked to share inspiring stories of how libraries can bring communities together around the shared experience and practice of creativity– whether through formal arts or craft programs, makerspaces, or free exhibitions and performances. We put no limits on who may connect or what they may create together when we seek these stories; in fac...We at believe libraries are a place to connect and create.
