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Crochet a Rosebud Bookmark
Monday January 29th, 10:30-12:30 Adults and teens welcome!
A fun little project that can use up leftover and scrap yarns.
Make a valentine for someone special who loves to read!
Materials will be provided.
Sign up at the front desk, or by calling 518-523-3200
Ask A Genealogist
Wednesday, January 10th 11:00-1:00
- Do you have a genealogical question that’s been weighing on your mind?
- Have you run into a ‘brick wall’ in your family tree and don’t know what to do next?
- Or, maybe you want to know more about an ancestor. You have their vital records (birth, marriage, death) and census data, but you want to know MORE. Where should you search?
Sign up for a free consultation with professional genealogist Judith Harper by visiting the front desk or calling the Lake Placid Public library at 518-523-3200.
Watercolor Workshop: Holiday Wreaths
Monday, Nov. 27th 10:30-12:30
Come and learn some basic botanical techniques and make a holiday wreath painting! Adults and teens welcome.
Materials will be provided, but you can bring your own if you like.
Sign up at the front desk or by calling 518-523-3200.
Coiled Baskets: The Basics
Monday, Oct. 30th, 10:30-12:30
Learn how to make your own coiled basket using cotton rope and yarn. Unless you are very speedy, this will be a project you will start at the library, then finish at home. It’s a great way to use up your leftover and odd balls of yarn!
Adults and teens welcome.
We will provide materials, but if you wanted to bring in your own yarns to use, that is also good.
Sign up at the front desk or by calling 518-523-3200
Watercolor workshop
Monday, Sept. 25th 10:30-12:30 repeating Tuesday, Sept. 26th 3:00 – 5:00
Adults and teens welcome!
Learn some of the basics of watercolor, and try your hand at a landscape painting!
Materials will be available to use at the event, or you are welcome to bring your own.
Sign up at the front desk
or by calling 518-523-3200.
These paintings are by Erin Johnson, who will be leading the class.
NEW DATES ADDED Watercolor Workshop—Come paint at the library!
Monday Aug. 28th, 10:30-12:30 repeating Tuesday, Aug. 29th 3:00 – 5:00. Adults and teens welcome.
Learn some of the basics of watercolor, and try your hand at a landscape painting! Materials will be available to use at the event, or you are welcome to bring your own.
Sign up at the front desk or by calling 518-523-3200.
Paintings by Erin Johnson, who will be leading the workshop.
Author & pop artist Michael Albert will lead a hands-on workshop at the library
July 11 3:00 Children & Families, 5:00 Adults
New York-based pop artist and author Michael Albert will offer a Pop Art Collage workshop at the Lake Placid Public Library. Beginning with an artist presentation, the event continues with a hands-on workshop where attendees will make their own pop art collage, and will finish with a free poster giveaway and signing for all. This event will run twice; 3:00 will be geared toward children and families, and 5:00 will be for adults.
Albert is nationally known for making art from cereal boxes and other printed cardboard consumer brand packages. Since the publishing of his book, an artist’s autobiography titled, “An Artist’s America” by Henry Holt in 2008, Albert has developed a traveling Pop Art Enrichment Program & Hands-On Collage Workshop for kids (school age & up), teens, adults & as a multi-generational event called the “Modern Pop Art Experience” which he has brought to more than 1,000 schools, libraries, museums, art festivals & special events in most of the United States & in Europe.
His artwork will be on display in the Guy Brewster Hughes Gallery for the month of July.
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