Blog Sunset on the Library as Incubator Project If you haven’t heard via social media already, the Library as Incubator Project team has bittersweet news to share: it is time to sunset the LAIP. We’ve had an amazing time working with many contributors to keep this community relevant and meaningful, but the time has come to make space for new and different projects....

Artists #IArtLibraries | Featuring: Ellen Ziegler This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in September 2016. Ellen Ziegler’s extraordinary book art was what made us reach out, but her wonderful collaborative projects truly embody the library-as-incubator philosophy. Enjoy! ~Erinn Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. Ellen Ziegler (EZ): I went...

Artists Mel Kolstad in Residence at Appleton Public Library It’s our pleasure to welcome back Mel Kolstad to the Library as Incubator Project. Today Mel fills us in on what she’s been up to during her artist residency at the Appleton Public Library in Appleton, Wisconsin. We love that Mel’s work continues to be deeply inspired by libraries and the “detritus” that comes into...

Artists #IArtLibraries | The Library Card Project at the American Craft Council This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in April 2013. 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...

Artists #IArtLibraries | Featuring: Coralie Bickford-Smith This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in March 2013. Today’s featured artist is book cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Coralie is the talent and hard work behind Penguin’s revamped classics covers and we are really thrilled to talk with her about her relationship to libraries! ~ Laura Can you tell us a bit...

Artists / Writers #IArtLibraries | Featuring: Erico Ortiz and “Making It Speak: Poets & Artists in Cahoots!” This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in March 2015. Today we’re thrilled to present an interview with Erico Ortiz, a creative artist in Wisconsin, who tells us today about his relationship to libraries and a wonderful poetry + visual art project he produced with other poets and artists last year. Enjoy! ~...

Artists #IArtLibraries | Featuring: Kevin Weir This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in October 2014. A vaguely creepy project by Kevin Weir, Flux Machine, came across my social media feeds a few weeks ago. The gifs that Kevin creates from historic photos from the Library of Congress put me in mind of Terry Gilliam’s work for Monty Python,...

Artists #IArtLibraries | Featuring: Patricia Dahlman and “Big Open Book” This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in April, 2015. Today I’m pleased to welcome artist Patricia Dahlman to the Library as Incubator Project. Patricia is the creator of a new site-specific sculpture that is on exhibit at the Mid-Manhattan Library in New York City. Today she tells us a bit about...

Artists Featuring: Katie Herzog Today we are pleased to feature a recent exhibition by visual artist Katie Herzog. Katie is also the director of the Molesworth Institute, a special library devoted to the playful side of libraries and archives. Enjoy this write-up of Katie’s recent project, from the KLOWDEN MANN gallery. “There is no way to perform architecture in...

Blog / Performing Arts #IArtLibraries | In Motion: American Sign Language Poetry This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in April 2012. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re celebrating National Poetry Month in a big way here at the Library as Incubator Project. Throughout the month of April we’ll be posting a couple of times a week about innovative, interesting, and inspiring poetry projects....

Artists #IArtLibraries | Featuring: Bobby Sayers This post originally appeared on the Library as Incubator Project in January 2015. Today it’s my pleasure to welcome Bobby Sayers to the Library as Incubator Project. Bobby’s “We Make New” sculpture created for the Artworks in Libraries program for Scottish Book Week caught my eye and I knew he’d have some interesting perspectives to...