Sharing the work at your arts-incubating library (Part 1)
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...
Pages to Projects: Food and Art
Our good friend Rebecca Dunn is back on the Library as Incubator Project with another great post in her popular Pages to Projects series! She shares how to incorporate elements of art education and appreciation into storytime; if you’ve been inspired by Rebecca’s projects or have used her storytime plans at your library, share your experience in the comments!~Erinn...
National Poetry Month Crafts with Teen Librarian’s Toolbox
We’re excited to welcome our friend Karen Jensen of Teen Librarian’s Toolbox back to the site today to contribute to our National Poetry Month Lineup this year! This time around, she’s sharing some creative ideas for how to engage teens and tweens with poetry through fun, interactive crafts. Enjoy! ~Erinn by Karen Jensen Like a...
Kit: Video Game Making Workshop
The newest addition to our program kit library comes courtesy of yours truly (although a lot of credit is due to the good folks at UW’s Division of Information Technology, who presented on Sploder to my Young Adult Literature class last year). ~ Laura Video Game Making Workshop I’ve offered this workshop at two libraries now,...
Kit: Poetry Scavenger Hunt
What better way to kick off the first week of National Poetry Month than with a wonderful new addition to our program kit collection? We’re thrilled to present this original program kit created for us – and you! – by a group of poets and literary educators known as Line Assembly. We’ll be featuring a...
National Craft Month: Peel Away Book Quote Art
by Erinn Batykefer Whew! National Craft Month is drawing to a close, and I’m a little sad, frankly. As I said in my last post about Story Terrariums, I’ve really enjoyed test-driving craft ideas for this year’s Beneath the Surface theme for the Teen Summer Reading Program– there are just SO MANY good YA books...
“I Art Families” at the St. Paul Public Library
Libraries are an important place for families. It is a constant goal for librarians that their collection reflect families of all kinds, and it is terrific when library programming can do the same. That’s why we were so excited about the “I Art Families” program organized by Rainbow Rumpus for the St. Paul Public Library...
National Craft Month: Instagram Crafts
We’re delighted to welcome our friend Karen Jensen, the genius behind Teen Librarian’s Toolbox, to the Library as Incubator Project today to share an excellent “Beneath the Surface” craft for our National Craft Month line-up. Kick-start your Teen Summer Reading Program with us–share your own program plans in the comments, and be sure to visit...
National Craft Month: Story Terrariums
by Erinn Batykefer “Beneath the Surface” is such an evocative theme. Some of the most captivating YA literature I’ve read in the past few years delves into the idea of everyday reality concealing a mysterious other world–a world that is just barely hidden beneath the surface. Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone has become...
Out of the Archives: NYPL’s Design by the Book
This post originally appeared on February 29, 2012. This feature is written by Jessica Pigza about the New York Public Library’s “Design by the Book” film series. To learn about Jessica’s Handmade Crafternoon program at the NYPL, check out her first feature on the Library as Incubator Project. - Laura Four years ago, I was...
New on Pinterest: Books for Quilters
This past fall, we put a call out for library-incubated quilters, and it proved one of the most successful calls we’ve ever done! We heard from tons of librarians who are quilters, and from libraries around the country that host quilting groups, show quilts in gallery spaces, and hold charity quilt auctions to support their...
MetPublications Online
by Erinn Batykefer If you enjoyed last year’s article, 65 Guggenheim Exhibition Catalogs Online, you’re in for a treat! MetPublications is a portal to the publishing program of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since the museum was founded in 1870, the Met has published collection guides and catalogues that explore the works in the museum’s...
