Featuring: Vickie Moore
Today’s feature is a real treat– re-purposed library catalog cards turned into topical works of art! Artist Vickie Moore lets each card’s topic inform her illustration, and she’s always looking for more. Check the links below to find out how to send her your cast-off cards & give them new life! ~Erinn Library as Incubator...
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...
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! ...
Exploring Coverbrowser.com
Our feature articles on libraries and artists have been going positively gangbusters this winter (which I love, don’t get me wrong) so I thought it might be nice to highlight one of the many eye candy-heavy (not to mention ridiculously valuable to students and lovers of history and literature) sites that the Incubators have come across...
Featuring: Lisa Congdon
Here at the Incubator, we’re big fans of illustration; to us, pictures are the most important part of every story, and we love tracking down the artist behind our favorites. I fell in love with Lisa Congdon’s work recently, and was delighted to learn more about her passion for libraries, and how library research influences...
Featuring: Wendy MacNaughton
It’s a real thrill today for us to share this interview with Wendy MacNaughton, illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Wendy’s series “Meanwhile” chronicles places, people, and moments in that city. Today’s feature is about a project she did called “San Francisco Public Library in Its Own Words” (originally published on The Rumpus in...
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...
Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters at The Morgan Library & Museum
by Rebecca Rubenstein Beatrix Potter’s personality shines through in the exhibition, “Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters” at The Morgan Library & Museum. The work is gathered from materials in the Morgan’s collection, the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and holdings from private collections. Visitors are taken on the journeys...
Cleveland Public Library card celebrates Harvey Pekar
This fall, the Cleveland Public Library introduced a highly functional momento for their library users: library cards that celebrate Cleveland landmarks. The cards, dubbed the Cleveland Landmark Series, debuted with a highly appropriate landmark: the library, and with it, a local creative treasure. The library recently purchased an illustration from Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland (artwork by Joseph...
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....
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...
