Featuring: Briony Morrow-Cribs
Today we are so pleased to welcome Briony Morrow-Cribs to the Library as Incubator Project. Her experience with libraries is one that many of us can relate to and one, I think, that librarians can learn from! ~ Laura Tell us a bit about yourself, and the type of creative work you do. If I was...
Featuring: Kim Thomson & Writing Britain: Writing Bristol
Today we are so pleased to welcome artist and arts educator Kim Thomson to the Library as Incubator Project. Kim’s work caught our attention when we came across a project she facilitated in conjunction with the British Library and the Bristol Libraries, “Writing Britain: Bristol Writing.” When it comes to national “umbrella” programs like Writing...
Featuring: Lisa Occhipinti
Today, we welcome book artist and writer Lisa Occhipinti to the site to share her astonishing book art and to talk about how important libraries have been to her artistic process. Her ideal library design– which envisions a reading room overlooking a waterfall– is not to be missed! Enjoy. ~Erinn So, tell us a little...
Featuring: V. Jones
Today we talk with library worker V. Jones, who discusses living the artistic life when you’re not a “professional” artist, and how routine library work can influence and inform creativity. V. poses some interesting and perhaps difficult questions: for whom does art exist? Why is the process of art-making enough for some, while for others process...
The Library Card Project at the American Craft Council
When posts about the Library Card Project, facilitated by the American Craft Council, started to crop up on Twitter we naturally couldn’t wait to reach out to ACC organizers and find out more about this ephemera inspired handmade project. Today we ask project organizers Elizabeth Ryan and Jessica Shaykett to talk about the American Craft...
Featuring: Trong Gia Nguyen
Today, we’re delighted to feature Trong Gia Nguyen, and his impressive “Library” project– an installation that bends the idea of what a book is by re-writing famous works word for word on rice grains. Don’t miss his fascinating concepts for the “ideal library”– zero gravity reading rooms? To-scale reproductions of paintings to check out and...
Featuring: Kate Morrell
Today we’re very pleased to welcome Kate Morrell to the site. Kate is a London-based book artist whose work frequently makes use of withdrawn or “overlooked” materials in libraries and archives. The work she shares with us today is a commissioned piece titled Alpine Spoilers, a project that engages with and highlights items from the collection...
Featuring: Coralie Bickford-Smith
Today’s featured artist is book cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Coralie is the talent and hard work behind Penguin’s revamped classics covers and we are really thrilled to talk with her about her relationship to libraries! ~ Laura Can you tell us a bit about yourself and the work you do? I am a pattern obsessed book...
The Romance of the Jefferson Market Library
We’re delighted to welcome back photographer Jamie Powell Shepard, whose artist feature captured our imagination back in July of 2012. In a new series of blogs, Jamie will guide us through her inspiration and artistic process for the works in The Libraries Project: how she falls in love with and photographs library spaces, from the iconic to the mundane,...
Featuring: Russ Woods
Today we are very pleased to welcome Russ Woods to the site. Russ is a librarian, artist, writer, and publisher based in Chicago. Tell us a little bit about yourself – where you work, the kind of work (professionally/as a hobby/etc.) that you do, how you became involved with libraries and with the arts. I...
“Brother Can You Spare a Stack” at the Center for Book Arts
Feature writer Rebecca Rubenstein recently visited an exciting new show at the Center for Book Arts in New York– a show that re-imagines the concept and purpose of a library, and turns libraries into works of art. Don’t miss the rest of Rebecca’s features on library-as-incubator happenings in NYC! ~Erinn Brother Can You Spare a...
Shadows! Demons! Dancers!: A Guest Blog by Anja Notanja Sieger
Today’s feature shares another glimpse into artist Anja Notanja Sieger’s creative process, this time with an exciting new series of papercut work that examines the shadow self of the artist. Don’t miss the other posts: Libraries Fuel Creativity, Everyone is a Library of Experiences, and In Which She Is Challenged to a Duel!. ~Erinn Shadows! Demons! Dancers! Shadows! Demons! ...
