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Coloring for Grown-Ups Programs in the Library

In case you haven’t heard, coloring programs for grown-ups are taking off at libraries! If you’re looking for an easy and accessible way for your library to host a creative program for adults, coloring might just be the way to go. Many libraries have hosted these programs as one-off events, but others are making them a regular part of their adult programming, not so different from a book club!

Experts in a recent article from The Guardian caution against equating coloring with “art therapy”...

SDPL Labs: Partnering with Fab Lab for Fabulous Maker Programs

Our friends Monnee Tong andUyen Tran at San Diego Public Library are the fearless teen (and tech!) advocates behind our series on the SDPL IDEA Lab. Today, Uyenshares their partnership with Fab Lab & how you can get involved. Enjoy! ~Erinn

SDPL Labs: Partnering with Fab Lab for Fabulous Maker Programs

by Uyen Tran

When we first started our Maker Lab at San Diego Public Library, we learned very quickly that to have a successful makerspace, you really need to have a community. Luckily for us, w...

Pages to Projects: Yarn Magic

This post was originally published August 23, 2013.

Our good friendRebecca Dunnis back on the Library as Incubator Project with another great post in her popularPages to Projectsseries! She shares how to incorporate elements of arteducationand appreciation into storytime; if you’ve been inspired by Rebecca’s projects or have used her storytime plans at your library, we’d love to hear about it! Share your experience in the comments. ~Erinn

by Rebecca Dunn

Are you familiar with yarn bombing? I...

Friday Linkubator Roundup | August 7 – 13

Calder’s Revolvers perform at the Anythink Backyard Concert Series on July 10, 2015. (Photo by Kent Mereis/Anythink Libraries)

Hello art & library lovers! It’s been an amazing week, full of surprises and delights, both online and off. We’re excited to share our favorite things with you, and we hope you do the same! Let us know what’s making you happy.

New features:

How cana successful teen makerspace be made to work for adults too? The Labs @ CLP are in the process. Anythink Libraries in Col...

Langdon Divers Gallery at FDLPL: WRAP Exhibit

Melissa Kolstad is the curator for the Langdon Divers Gallery at the Fond du Lac Public Library in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. For her new quarterly series with the Library as Incubator Project, Mel talks about exhibitions and displays in the library’s gallery.

by Melissa Kolstad

It’s August, and for many non-professional artists around Wisconsin that means it’s time for the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program, or WRAP!

This wonderful program is celebrating 75 years this year and it’s bigger than eve...

Backyard Concert Series at Anythink

We’re thrilled to present a conversation with Stacie Ledden, Director of Innovations and Brand Strategy at Anythink Libraries. In today’s post she talks about the library’s Backyard Concert Series, which brings the community together at the library to celebrate music during the summer. Special thanks to Erica Grossman at Anythink for coordinating today’s interview! ~Laura

Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Can you give us a quick overview of the Backyard Concert Series?

Stacie Ledden (SL):...

The Labs for adults: is the change all in our heads?

We’ve been documenting the evolution of The Labs at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh since 2012, when the project had just secured a pilot grant. It’s all grown up now, and has evolvedinto a thoughtful and responsive makerspace model that adds real value to to the conversation. Check out the whole series on The Labs @ CLP. Enjoy! ~Erinn

byDan Hensley

Perhaps we’ve been a makerspace all along and just haven’t quite realized it.

The Labs has, from its very early days, been closely monitored by m...

Featuring: The Reading Nest by Mark Reigelman

This post was originally published on August 7, 2013.

As someone who loves both reading and climbing trees, I was thrilled to come across The Reading Nest by Mark Reigelman, an installation piece at theCleveland Public Librarywhich was inspired by mythical objects and symbols of knowledge. Today, Mark shares his inspiration and process. -Holly

Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little about your background and you as an artist. What inspires your work?

Mark Reigelman (MR):My back...

Friday Linkubator Roundup | July 24 – August 6

This is a special TWO WEEK edition of the Linkubator Roundup… only because I was away from my computer last week. But still! It’s special, I tell you!

New features:

This isn’t just a feature on a public art piece, it’s also a tutorial! Artist Elaine Luther shows us what she did at the Forest Park Public Library and how you can do it too! Hennepin County Library wanted to draw attention to all the publicly-accessible art at its many locations across the Twin Cities, so they created an online...

Library Takeover: laying the foundation for YA-led cultural library programming

Today we are so pleased to present this article (the first of two) on the Library Takeover program, organized by Apples and Snakes, a performance poetry group based in the UK (check out their awesome library-based SPINE Festival work in our previous series). This program pairs youth who are interested in producing events at libraries with creative professional mentors who work in arts administration and production to organize large-scale cultural programs in libraries. Enjoy! ~Laura

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