The Library Project by Temporary Services
It is with great pleasure today that we host Temporary Services, a public art group based in Chicago, Copenhagen, and Philadelphia. They talk with us about The Library Project, a fascinating public exhibition whose covert playground is on the shelves of Chicago’s Harold Washington Library. In his essay about The Library Project, Marc Fischer of...
The Brooklyn Art Library | An Interview with the Head Librarian
We’re delighted to have Rebecca Rubenstein on board as a Feature Writer at large for the Library as Incubator Project! This interview was conducted with Chris Heuberger, Head Librarian of Brooklyn Art Library in November 2012. A portion of the discussion can be seen in Rebecca’s feature on the Sketchbook Project. Enjoy! ~Erinn . The Brooklyn Art...
The Sketchbook Project at Brooklyn Art Library
We’re delighted to have Rebecca Rubenstein on board as a Feature Writer at large for the Library as Incubator Project, especially because she is both a librarian and a visual artist! She lives and works in New York City, and we’re very happy to have her keen eye looking out for the best arts-incubating libraries...
The “My Downtown” exhibit by Melissa Kolstad
We’re pleased to welcome back to the Library as Incubator Project our friend and guest blogger Melissa Kolstad, who brings you an update about her fabulous new show at the Fond du Lac (WI) Public Library. In May of 2011, I had an idea for a collage exhibit – enough of an idea to request...
IncubaTOUR: “Fallout” exhibition at Ebling Library
Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the opening of a new exhibition on at UW-Madison’s Ebling Library for the Health Sciences. “Fallout: The Mixed Blessing of Radiation and the Public Health,” is presented by librarian and curator Micaela Sullivan-Fowler. The exhibition is open to the public through April 1, 2013. The exhibition is organized...
“To Arrive Where We Started” at the Redwood Library
And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time… –Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot To Arrive Where We Started, a new exhibition at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, RI, explores this theme composed by Eliot. Designed and installed by artist Peter...
Pressed Letters: a gallery + library partnership
Today we’re pleased to feature an interview with Peter Vangioni, curator for the Christchurch Art Gallery in New Zealand. Peter shares some beautiful visuals and answers our questions about a partnership between the gallery and the Central Library in Peterborough. The result is “Pressed Letters,” an exhibition that highlights New Zealand’s letterpress work from 1975...
Wisconsin Quilt Expo & A Call for Library-Incubated Quilters!
I lived in Lewisburg Pennsylvania for two years when I was the Stadler Poetry Fellow at Bucknell University– smack in the heart of Pennsylvania quilt country. I saw quilts hanging on clotheslines when I walked to Market Street and when I drove to the grocery store; I found old ones piled in every antique shop...
Music History: The Chuck Brown /Go-Go Archive at DC Public Library
by Erinn Batykefer As any music buff knows, a light went out this past May when Chuck Brown, the “godfather of Go-go,” died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of 75. Go-go is something of a DC phenomenon; the genre developed in the 70s and has evolved into a hip-shaking blend of funk, R&B,...
Art Exhibition Pathfinders at the NYPL Mulberry Street Branch
We’re delighted to share this interview with some of the folks at NYPL’s Mulberry Street Branch and to showcase a new service launched as a practicum project by Rebecca Rubenstein, an artist and library school student at Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University. Read on to learn more about Mulberry Street’s art...
Minneapolis Central Library’s picture files, where past & present coexist
by Andy Sturdevant. Originally published on August 1, 2012 in the MinnPost weekly arts column, The Stroll. Up on the third floor of the Minneapolis Central Library, past the racks of CDs and near the drawers of sheet music, there are several rows of file cabinets, each nearly 5 feet high, containing hundreds of thousands...
Figure/Ground at the Cleveland Public Library
by Erinn Batykefer Cleveland Public Library’s See Also program is an innovative partnership with LAND Studio that brings a rotating suite of contemporary art installations to the library’s Eastman Reading Garden. See Also is a clever pun that plays on a reference cataloging term; if you find it on a digital book record (or on a card-catalog...
