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...
Big news: the Library as Incubator Project Book!
We are thrilled to share some fantastic news with you all. Get out your crayons, your colored pencils, your piles of scratch paper – because we’re working with the wonderful Coffee House Press in Minneapolis to publish a book! The book is tentatively titled The Library as Incubator Project’s Guide to the Artist’s Library: a workbook...
The LAIP at work: how do you use this website/project?
Hello, lovely readers – librarians, artists, and interested folks! We’re doing a bit of housekeeping this month and I’d like to pose a question today to all of you. How do you use the Library as Incubator Project? We’d really like to hear from you if you’ve: Discovered a new collection here that is of...
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! ...
In Which She is Challenged to a Duel: A Guest Blog by Anja Notanja Sieger
Today, we’re pleased to share another glimpse into artist Anja Notanja Sieger’s creative process! This installment of her guest blog series examines how libraries and library materials influence her art, and confronts the question: will people read books in 10 years? Don’t miss the other posts: Libraries Fuel Creativity, and Everyone is a Library of Experiences. ~Erinn In...
Pages to Projects: Winter Fun
Our good friend Rebecca Dunn is back on the Library as Incubator Project blog 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...
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...
Year in Review: 2012
I have the great privilege of writing up the first “Year in Review” post for the first full year of the Library as Incubator Project! And what a year it was. We published 336 posts last year, including 63 features on Artists (including visual artists, photographers, multimedia artists, and installation artists); 38 posts in our...
A { very } merry Christmas Eve
The LaIP team is off celebrating a week of holiday happenings (and taking a much-needed break) so we thought we’d hearken back to last year’s Christmas Eve post and bring you a couple of snapshots from our lives as they are today. Forgive us if things are quiet around Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest in the...
Recycled Holiday Crafts at North Park University’s Brandel Library
by Andy Meyer Students and staff at North Park University’s Brandel Library decided to get in the holiday spirit this year by hosting a crafting event that used discarded library materials to create decorations for the library’s annual Christmas party. With some inspiration from Pinterest (see our board HERE) and with the creativity of some...
Everyone is a Library of Experiences: A Guest Blog by Anja Notanja Sieger
Today, we’re pleased to roll out the next installment of Anja Notanja Sieger’s a new blog series on how libraries and library materials influence her art. Don’t miss the first blog in the series, Libraries Fuel Creativity, and check out her original artist interview on the Library as Incubator Project, where she shares her unique vision of the ideal library....
Indiegogo Week 5: We came to the end
Six weeks, 80+ funders, $7,000+ raised, hundreds of shares on Twitter and Facebook…we are absolutely blown away by the response to our first-ever Indiegogo campaign! A thousand thank-yous to everyone who donated, shared, and championed our cause during the last six weeks. We are incredibly humbled by the support we’ve received from all over the...
