Recipe for a Thriving Performing Arts Series: Part 1
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Demske back to the Library as Incubator Project for the next installment in his series of posts focusing on process and strategy librarians can use to implement excellent performing arts programs for their communities using a principle we call “Programming as Collection Development.” Nick’s work at Racine Public Library is...
Featuring: Provincetown Public Press
Exciting things are happening at the crossroads of self-publishing and libraries lately! We’re fascinated with the ways that libraries are working to help their communities create content, not just consume it– and how they’re collecting that content, too! This week, we chatted with Matt Clark, Director of Marketing and Program Development at Provincetown Public Library...
National Poetry Month 2013 Wrap-up
Thanks for joining us this year for National Poetry Month! All April, we shared wonderful stories from poets, libraries, and arts organizations about the power and meaning of the written word, and the ways in which it can connect communities and enrich our lives. You don’t have to be a poet or even a literature...
Poem in Your Pocket Day at Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System
Welcome to National Poem in your Pocket Day! We’re delighted to welcome Wendy Saz to the site as part of our National Poetry Month line-up. Wendy is the Branch Manager for Crozet Library in the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System in Charlottesville, where she launched a Poem in Your Pocket program that has become a huge outreach...
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...
Librarians and community involvement as a professional competence
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Demske back to the Library as Incubator Project for the first in a series of posts focusing on process and strategy librarians can use to implement excellent performing arts programs for their communities using a principle we call “Programming as Collection Development.” Nick’s work at Racine Public Library is an...
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...
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...
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...
Bridging the Arts at Chicago Public Library
Our newest volunteer at the LAIP presents a fascinating overview of the Chicago Public Library’s arts-incubating partnerships in today’s feature. Read on to learn how reaching out has helped the CPL foster a sense of community and a greater appreciation of artistic expression in their city!~Erinn Bridging the Arts at Chicago Public Library Actors transform...
