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August 5, 2015
Book to Boogie: “The Bus is for Us”
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!
Book to Boogie: The Bus is for Us
by Amy Seto Forrester
This month I’d like to share one of my new favorite story time books...
August 4, 2015
Featuring: Tom Bevan
This post was originally published on August 2, 2013.
We’re excited to share the work of Tom Bevan on the site today– a new addition to our growing catalog of library workers who double as artists, and who use the library as direct inspiration to their work. Tom’s most recent piece scrutinizes the digital shift taking place in many levels of library service, but everything he makes is beautifully wrought. Enjoy! ~Erinn
Red Riding Hood, by Tom Bevan
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us...
August 3, 2015
Upstream Arts presents “Ready for Work” programs at Hennepin County Libraries
This post was originally published on August 30, 2012.
The mission of Upstream Arts is to enhance the lives of adults and youth with disabilities by fostering creative communication and social independence through the power of arts education.
Upstream Arts was founded in 2006 by a professional theatre artist and an educator who successfully used the communicative tools of theater and dance–movements, body language, and facial expressions– to engage their son, who was born with Cornelia de Lan...
July 30, 2015
“Stop, Look, Art” at Hennepin County Library
Today we have the pleasure of talking with Christy Mulligan, Coordinating Librarian, Community Connections, at Hennepin County Library in Minnesota. She tells us about the fabulous Stop, Look, Art project at Hennepin County Library, which takes “art in the library” a step further by carefully documenting the art and artists, in partnership with community institutions. Read on! ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): How did the Stop, Look, Art project come to be? Where and how did the id...
July 29, 2015
Exploring Public Art at the Forest Park Public Library
Today’s story (and project kit) comes to us from Elaine Luther, an artist whose work with libraries we’ve featured on the LAIP before, and Alicia Hammond, Community Engagement Librarian at the Forest Park Public Library in Illinois. Elaine and Alicia give us the scoop on the process of installation a major public art piece at a library. Enjoy! ~Laura
The finished EXPLORE installation at Forest Park Public Library. Photo by Ralph Romero.
by Elaine Luther and Alicia Hammond
Interactive public a...
July 28, 2015
“Unbinding the Library” at NYC’s Elastic City
This post was originally published July 30, 2013.
Elastic City is a Brooklyn-based non-profit arts organization that commissions emerging and established artists to create participatory walks throughout New York and around the world. These walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening awareness, exploring senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space.
As part of its educational program, Elastic City now offers “ways”. “Ways” are experien...
July 27, 2015
Figure/Ground at the Cleveland Public Library
This post was originally published July 2012.
by Erinn Batykefer
Cleveland Public Library’s See Also program is an innovative partnership with LAND Studiothat brings a rotating suite of contemporary art installations to the library’s Eastman Reading Garden. See Alsois a clever pun that plays on a reference cataloging term; if you find it on a digital book record (or on a card-catalog card, if your library is old school), it means “check out these terms too; they’re related to what you’re loo...
July 24, 2015
Friday Linkubator Roundup | July 17 – 23
So how’s everybody doing out there?It’s hotter’n’heck where I’m sitting, but at least there are books and the ever-interesting interwebs. And things were certainly hopping out there! Enjoy this week’s best links and frivolities.
A screenshot of WMTV’s coverage of “Don’t Shoot.”
New features:
Madison Public Library, one of our strongest library connections, was the center of a public art controversy, and we got the inside scoop. LAIP co-founder Laura shared her teen program for blacklight art...Friday Linkubator Roundup | 17 – 23
So how’s everybody doing out there?It’s hotter’n’heck where I’m sitting, but at least there are books and the ever-interesting interwebs. And things were certainly hopping out there! Enjoy this week’s best links and frivolities.
A screenshot of WMTV’s coverage of “Don’t Shoot.”
New features:
Madison Public Library, one of our strongest library connections, was the center of a public art controversy, and we got the inside scoop. LAIP co-founder Laura shared her teen program for blacklight art...July 23, 2015
Update: The Book to Art Club
Today we’re giving a quick update about the Book to Art Club, a sister project to the Library as Incubator Project that combines art-making with the tried-and-true library book discussion group.
Since the Book to Art Club started in 2014, we’ve had 11 chapters (and counting!) spring up at public, school, and academic libraries all over the country. People are reading and making art based on some fantastic books, likeWhere’d You Go, Bernadetteby Maria Semple andThe Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsa...
