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April 27, 2015
SDPL Labs: Arduino Aplenty
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 the cool intergenerational programs. Enjoy! ~Erinn
3.14.15 was the most perfect Pi Day of our lifetime so we had a class on how to program a Raspberry Pi.
by Uyen Tran
We did a lot of computer programming workshops at our San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common in February and March. In addition to our monthly Ard...
April 24, 2015
Friday Linkubator Roundup | April 17 – 23
Tim Youd performing William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”, at Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, June 2014
Another week, another amazing roundup of links. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
New features:
The new installment of our series on The Labs @CLP pushes a digital makerspace to be real with social issues and the lives of its teens. We loved our visit to the Corning Museum of Glass, and we’re happy to share how they’re embracing the library-museum connection with artists. All...April 23, 2015
Tim Youd and the 100 Novels Project
Today we present a conversation with Tim Youd, a visual and performance artist who is currently working on a fascinating project to retype 100 novels–obviously a performance piece that is very intriguing to literature lovers! Read on to hear more about the 100 Novels project and Tim’s relationship to libraries in the past and today. ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Please introduce yourself to our community–who are you, and what sort of creative work do you do?
Tim Youd (TY): I’m a...
April 22, 2015
Mel Kolstad’s “Homage to Libraries” Project
Today we welcome back a dear friend of the Library as Incubator Project, multimedia and collage artist (and library gallery curator) Melissa Kolstad! Today Mel tells us about a project-based class she led recently that’s all about personal connection to libraries – and includes the how-to in case you’re game to try this out yourself. Read on! ~Laura
by Melissa Kolstad
In the last two years, I’ve done more work with our library (the Fond du Lac Public Library) than ever before – I became a mem...
April 21, 2015
The library-museum connection: Glass books and books about glass
We’re excited to welcome Rebecca Hopman to the site today for her first post in a new series on the incredible #libasincubator work at the Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass. The CMOG is a special place where librarians, curators, artists, and educators all work together to share the history and craft of glass making. Enjoy! ~Erinn
Jenni Kemarre Martiniello; “The 5 Principles,” 2014; Kiln-formed glass, copper, leather, bonded
by Rebecca Hopman
The Rakow Research Library of...
April 20, 2015
The Labs Goes Teen: Exploring our Social Identity
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 looking to take over the entire library! Check out the wholeseries on The Labs @ CLP. Enjoy! ~Erinn
byAmalia Kalisz Tonsor, Labs Mentor
The latest chapters in The Labs @ CLP blog saga have marked a shift from an inward focus on building capacity to an outward goal of partnership and new connections. A platform has been firml...
Poem in Your Pocket Day at Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System
This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in 2013. Poem in Your Pocket Day is onApril 24th.
Welcome to National Poem in your Pocket Day! We’re delighted to welcome Wendy Saz to the site as part of our National Poetry Month line-up. Wendy is the Branch Manager for Crozet Library in the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Systemin Charlottesville, where she launched a Poem in Your Pocket program that has become a huge outreach and PR initiative for the library– in additio...
April 17, 2015
Friday Linkubator Roundup | April 10 – 16
Happy National Libraries Week! Where to even start?? There was SO MUCH library, art, and human goodness on the web– so let’s jump right in!
New features:
Book sculpture is one of our favorite things, so we just had to talk to artist Isobelle Ouzman about her work! We think you’ll love it too. We’ve got more from Rachel Karasick on the “Framing Fraktur” exhibit at the Free Library of Philadelphia – what an amazing way to showcase an old artform! Edith Abeyta brings us the next installment on...April 16, 2015
Artist Residency at CLP Hazelwood Branch: Resident Determined Public Art
This article is the fourth in a series brought to us by Edith Abeyta, who is currently participating in a yearlong artist residency at the Hazelwood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
by Edith Abeyta
It’s not unusual for artists to work in the public sphere but it is not so common for artists to connect with residents in a neighborhood for them to determine the public art. The artist in residency program at CLP-Hazelwood has this as its focus. Initiated by the Office of Public Art...
April 15, 2015
Framing Fraktur: An Expanding Celebration of Art and Culture
Today we welcome back Rachel Karasick, who wrote the preview post for the Framing Fraktur exhibition at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Rachel fills us in on the exhibition and larger fraktur celebration since it opened in early March. Enjoy! ~Laura
by Rachel Karasick
Framing Fraktur opened at the Free Library on March 2nd, and it has become a part of a gigantic regional celebration of fraktur, an ornately illustrated, manuscript-based folk-art that you can read more about in my last post t...
