When we started the Library as Incubator Project back in 2011, our focus was on how artists use libraries in their work. We were especially interested in how visual artists and performing artists use libraries, since there didn’t seem to be a lot of information out there on that particular topic. Eventually we expanded the project...
About a year ago, the LaIP co-founders got together with Trent Miller and Jesse Vieau for a talk about an idea for a new Madison Public Library initiative that would offer workshops and programs based on partnerships with community organizations and Madison locals. Their idea blossomed into The Bubbler, a programming model that turns the...
This article originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project on May 24, 2012. We’re excited to feature this partnership between an academic library and the innovative Recology Artist-in-Residence program. Many thanks to Shawn Calhoun, Head of Access Services, Library Outreach, and Assessment at the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library, for sharing this wonderful project....
by Laura Damon-Moore Last week I took advantage of my day off to walk through the Olbrich Botanical Gardens here in Madison. I brought my little travel paint set with me and spent some time sketching the daffodils and tulips found in this “living library.” I’m really drawn to botanical charts and illustrations, especially as...
Happy Sunday, dear readers! Believe it or not, we find we’re running a bit dry for feature articles in the next few months. Could you help us out and submit your work? Library arts programming, artists using libraries, unique ways that libraries and the arts interact – we want to see it all! Click here...
Something that happens to me on a regular basis with this project is that I hear about program ideas and immediately think, oh my goodness, I have to replicate that or do something similar at my library/in my art-making practice/etc. When our friend Matt Finch (you remember him, from the Zombies in the Library storytelling event) put...
Hello hello, dear friends! ’Tis the season for everyone to be hard at work, and here at the LaIP, we’re in the same boat! Here are some of our best and favorite links of the week, from us and others. New on the website this week: We’ve been doing a little housekeeping this week. Laura...
Exciting things are happening at the crossroads of self-publishing and libraries lately! We’re fascinated with the ways that libraries are working to help their communities create content, not just consume it– and how they’re collecting that content, too! This week, we chatted with Matt Clark, Director of Marketing and Program Development at Provincetown Public Library...
It is my pleasure to announce that the Library as Incubator Project is expanding to include Ryan Claringbole, who joins the team as a feature writer/future @IArtLibraries social media handler. We first connected with Ryan on Twitter (catch him @LibrarianRy) last year and it’s great to be able to work with him in person now...
Thanks for joining us this year for National Poetry Month! All April, we shared wonderful stories from poets, libraries, and arts organizations about the power and meaning of the written word, and the ways in which it can connect communities and enrich our lives. You don’t have to be a poet or even a literature...
In case you missed our big news post at the end of March, the Library as Incubator Project team is hard at work on a book! We’re teaming up with Coffee House Press (a lovely little publishing house in Minneapolis) to bring you The Library as Incubator Project’s Guide to the Artist’s Library: A workbook for creative...
Well, I daresay that spring is actually on its way! Apologies to you loyal followers in the Southern Hemisphere – it’s been a loooooong winter, and we just can’t keep silent! New on the website this week: Westport Public Library hosted a Mini Maker Faire this past weekend, but we got the inside scoop...
