Out of the Archives: Nappanee Public Library Fine Art Series
This article first appeared on the Library as Incubator Project on March 15, 2012. We’re delighted to host this essay about Nappanee Public Library’s Fine Art Series by Jessica Flores, the multi-talented Nappanee Communications Specialist who is also a professional artist working in watercolor and mixed media. Jessica often finds inspiration for her work at...
Featuring: Brooklyn Visual Heritage by Project CHART
by Laura Damon-Moore Brooklyn Visual Heritage is a new online resource developed by several cultural institutions working together to provide access to the city’s cultural history. This project is the result of three years of work funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Project CHART and is a collaborative effort of Pratt Institute’s School of...
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,...
The Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | Photography Month
Today we welcome Andre Costello to the Library as Incubator Project! Andre is a Mentor for The Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; in his first guest blog for us, he shares an exciting overview of the photography programming that happening at CLP throughout February. Don’t miss the other posts in our continuing coverage of...
Featuring: the Cigar Box Project (Part 2)
This is the second part of our series on the Cigar Box Project, a group exhibition of works that are all contained within cigar boxes. The subject matter? Libraries, books, reading. Today we talk with two of the exhibition’s artists, Jim Wright and Terry Evans. Jim Wright Tell us a bit about yourself and your...
Featuring: Isa Gagarin
Our friend Andy Sturdevant introduced us to Isa Gagarin in his wonderful article from The Stroll on the Minneapolis Central Library’s Picture Files, and we’re very pleased to share this interview with her here. Isa earned her BFA in Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design; her multi-media installations are accompanied by artist...
Featuring: Rune Guneriussen
We love it when members of our community bring artists whose work is library-incubated to our attention. Without Shawn Calhoun (@shawncalhoun), it would have taken us a lot longer to find the beautiful work by Norwegian photographer + installation artist, Rune Guneriussen. We are so pleased to bring you this interview about Rune’s work, and...
Cyanotype Workshops at Madison Public Library
by Erinn Batykefer In conjunction with Go Big Read, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s common reading program, Madison Public Library is presenting a series of three cyanotype workshops for adults and older children. The workshops explore the unique artistic process that artist and author Lauren Redniss used to create the illustrations in this year’s Go Big...
The Underground New York Public Library
by Christina Endres The Underground New York Public Library is a photography project by Ourit Ben-Haim, through which she documents the day to day acts of people reading while using public transportation. Ben-Haim travels the subways of New York City, snapping photos of riders reading. A young man reading Proust, a older gentlemen absorbed...
Linkubator Sunday Roundup | Week of August 20-26
This week on the site: A profile of Hennepin County Library’s Creative Writing Conference for Writers 50 and Better. A fantastic example of library programming that works outside the library. We love the photography by Irish artist Doreen Kennedy, and we think you will too: Featuring: “Portrait of a Library” Project. Guest blogger Brandon Monokian returns...
Featuring: “Portrait of a Library” by Doreen Kennedy
We’re loving the gorgeous photography by Irish artist Doreen Kennedy, and we’re confident that you will too. We were so pleased when Doreen wrote to us about her own library-incubated project, Portrait of a Library. Enjoy! ~ Laura Portrait of a Library by Doreen Kennedy I have being visiting local libraries since childhood. I am fascinated...
Featuring: Jamie Powell Sheppard
Today, we welcome Jamie Powell Sheppard to the Library as Incubator Project. Jamie is a fine art photographer with a penchant for vintage equipment and developing techniques. Her eye for beautiful, overlooked scenes is especially poignant in the collection of work we feature here, from her Libraries Project. If you would like to get in touch...
