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...
Featuring: Kim Thomson & Writing Britain: Writing Bristol
Today we are so pleased to welcome artist and arts educator Kim Thomson to the Library as Incubator Project. Kim’s work caught our attention when we came across a project she facilitated in conjunction with the British Library and the Bristol Libraries, “Writing Britain: Bristol Writing.” When it comes to national “umbrella” programs like Writing...
Featuring: Line Assembly
Earlier this month we featured a new program kit created for us by the members of Line Assembly, a touring group of young poets whose goal is to bring poetry (and poetry making which is SO cool) to the masses utilizing bookshops, coffee shops, and libraries all over the country. Today we talk more in depth...
Featuring: Line Assembly (Part 2)
This is the second part of our interview with the six members of the poetry group Line Assembly (click here to read part 1). As an artist, what would your ideal library look or be like? Oh boy, what a great question! I’ve been lucky to have seen some really fantastic libraries lately, which is why the...
Kit: Video Game Making Workshop
The newest addition to our program kit library comes courtesy of yours truly (although a lot of credit is due to the good folks at UW’s Division of Information Technology, who presented on Sploder to my Young Adult Literature class last year). ~ Laura Video Game Making Workshop I’ve offered this workshop at two libraries now,...
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...
Checking in with: The Creative Class at DCPL
Last winter we featured a post about The Creative Class, a series of hands-on craft and art making workshops at the Washington, D.C. Public Library. This spring we checked in with Jamila Felton, coordinator of the series, to learn about the progress of the program, lessons learned, challenges addressed, etc. For those of you thinking...
“Cut It Out” workshop from King County Library System
We always love hearing about successful library + art programs, and it’s fun to feature a program that just happened last week! The King County Library System (KCLS) hosted a workshop called “Cut It Out” for adults that tapped a local institution and a local business as partners. The workshop (an “evening of artmaking” with an “emphasis...
Teaching artists technology in the library
by Laura Damon-Moore In addition to serving as places of inspiration and a venue for artists to showcase their creative work, libraries can also offer artists opportunities for professional development. In the creative community, professional development might mean workshops on website creation, business management, social media, and more (see our writeup on Hennepin County Library’s...
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...
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...
The Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | Life After the Launch, Part Two: The Labs as a Recording Studio (and More!)
Last week, we shared an exciting update from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh which focused on filmmaking programs for teens at their digital, multi-site makerspace, The Labs @ CLP. Today, Labs mentor Molly Dickerson is back to share more on CLP’s successful maker programs. You can catch up on the previous post here: “Life After the Launch, Part One: Filmmaking in The...
