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: 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...
Featuring: Kate Morrell
Today we’re very pleased to welcome Kate Morrell to the site. Kate is a London-based book artist whose work frequently makes use of withdrawn or “overlooked” materials in libraries and archives. The work she shares with us today is a commissioned piece titled Alpine Spoilers, a project that engages with and highlights items from the collection...
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,...
Out of the Archives: NYPL’s Design by the Book
This post originally appeared on February 29, 2012. This feature is written by Jessica Pigza about the New York Public Library’s “Design by the Book” film series. To learn about Jessica’s Handmade Crafternoon program at the NYPL, check out her first feature on the Library as Incubator Project. - Laura Four years ago, I was...
Featuring: St. Bride Library
It’s no secret that the team at the Library as Incubator Project are huge fans of printing and print history – which is why we’re super thrilled to feature the St. Bride Library, the UK’s largest library for print, publishing, and graphic arts located in London’s Fleet Street district. Bob Richardson from St. Bride kindly...
Learning Resources at the British Library
As you know if you’ve followed the Library as Incubator Project for some time, artists and writers use the library for any number of things that contribute to their creative work. Sometimes it’s a moment of inspiration that strikes because of the right book on the right shelf at the right time, but very frequently,...
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...
MetPublications Online
by Erinn Batykefer If you enjoyed last year’s article, 65 Guggenheim Exhibition Catalogs Online, you’re in for a treat! MetPublications is a portal to the publishing program of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since the museum was founded in 1870, the Met has published collection guides and catalogues that explore the works in the museum’s...
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....
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...
