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Making Art With Teens (PART 1)
In late 2010, it donned on me that the walls in my teen library were quite bare. My teen library, which reopened in April 2010 after a $7.3 million dollar renovation, had all the wonderful elements...
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Making Art With Teens (PART 2)
We’re now a few weeks into the project with the teens and our MECA intern and everything is running smoothly. Our intern Peter is meeting with our four teens weekly to discuss the project and create....
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Making Art With Teens (PART 3)
Last week I got a chance to sit down with Reesey, who is one of the teens participating in our Portland Public Library/Maine College of Art Teen Art Project to give us an update on her project and how...
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Making Art with Teens (THE GALLERY)
For the full gallery and behind the scenes pictures, click here. Perception by Claire Longcope Overdue by Keanan Fox Chocolate by Reesey Partlow Linoleum Prints by Paisley Williams Scribble Drawings by...
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#teenlibrarymakestuff program
Artwork by Portland Public Library Teen Aprille Marie One of my favorite things that happened this summer was the #teenlibrarymakestuff program that was a collaboration between my library and the...
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Thanks Maine Humanities Council and Maine Educators!
I was honored to present at the “Introduction to Visual Literacy: Strategies for “Reading” Art” program offered by the Maine Humanities Council today at Bowdoin College. You can find my slides below:...
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Internet Librarian 2012
I am extremely honored to be part of the 2012 Internet Librarian Conference this year! I will be part of two events, which you can read about below. I have also shared my slides as well. (There are...
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564 Days (or, the story of THE 2ND FLOOR thus far…)
The 2nd Floor of the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library has been in its current state, a place for ages 0-18 and their caregivers, for 564 days, or 1 year, 6 months, and 16 days as of today. If...
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THREE THINGS 2016.3
BOWIE I never met the dude in real life but his passing has really had an effect on me. I think it comes from one simple thing: the man created honest and pure art that genuinely brought happiness and...
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THREE THINGS 2016.4
I̢̠͔̼͇͓̅̍ͥͅ ̲̬̺̝͍͔̲̯̊́ͅą͚̖͔̗̲̞͆ͬ̑ṁ̷̺̯̖̺̭̪͙̮̟ͦ̅̋̀ ͓̘̃͑̾͌ͯ͊͟n̝̩͖̋ͭͭ͑͋̐͛ͩ͟ó̱̣͢ͅt̷͕͓̰͖ͯ̋͋̅ ̯̹̙̻̣̥̭̾̕ș̠̬̞͕͇ͯ̈́ͨ́͠ụ̵̱̫̤͕̎̌̔ͮͨͣ̈͡r̶̳̣͍̱͈̪̗̳̿ͫͦe͚̰͓͌̒ͤͣ͟ A glitch is a beautiful thing. I look at glitches...
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Fidelia Hall Spring 2016
Life at the Hoenke home aka Fidelia Hall is very good. Spring is very much in the air, the birds are out and chirping, the plants are growing, and everything just feels pretty darn great. Most of what...
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This is Happening
Community members entering Fidelia Hall at the ORCA event “Musicians in the Raw”. Photo Credit: ORCA The past few weeks have found Fidelia Hall buzzing with excitement and energy. This is exactly what...
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The Platform
The Nintendo Entertainment System is a video game system that you enter video game cartridges into in order to play a game on the individual cartridge. Sometimes these video games are made by Nintendo...
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Fidelia Hall (Winter/Spring 2017 Update)
Photo by Nadine Byers When we decided to buy a 144 year old church building and a house that’s most likely also over 100 years old, we knew that we would be looking at nonstop home repairs, upgrades,...
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A Series of Surprises
In May of 1967 Derek Taylor spoke of the fate of Smile in his press release. Smile “has been SCRAPPED. Not destroyed, but scrapped”. Could this mean that there was still some merit seen in the songs,...
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Why You Should Subscribe to IndiePicks
You know my shtick by now: I don’t write about things on this blog that I don’t care about. I don’t write about things on this blog because someone paid me to do so. What I do on this blog is try to...
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Recommended Read: “Why millennials are making memes about wanting to die” by...
I found the piece Why millennials are making memes about wanting to die by Deidre Olsen over at Salon to be a very worthwhile read. At first, I found the whole tide pod meme to be something so absurd...
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About a year ago I hung up a bizarre painting in my office at work. To me it was perfect and just familiar enough that I thought it warranted a place in my life. As a person who always thought it...
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“May 31, 1944,” by Isabella Leitner and illustrated by Gus Leiber at the...
In the month of May the Benson Memorial Library is proudly displaying the poem “May 31, 1944,” by Isabella Leitner and illustrated by Gus Leiber in the Wentz Reading Room at the Benson Memorial...
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Lean Into It
Over the past year we’ve been going through a lot of soul searching at the Hoenke house. What are we doing here in Titusville, PA? Do we want to live here? What should we do with Fidelia Hall?...
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