8:30 - 10 am
LLAMA BES
Integrating the Arts Successfully Into Your Library
This was one of my favorite sessions! Tony Tallent is someone I believe Michelle and others know from Denver I think, who is now with the very well known Richland Library in South Carolina - http://www.richlandlibrary.com/. There were some other speakers, however Tony was the real show stopper (Carmen and Cara attended as well and can tell you)!
We are already doing a great job integrating arts with our Cultural Arts Nights and this session seemed like it had a few more great ideas we could incorporate - working with local artists for rotating art displays (perhaps even creating your carpet pattern), working with local authors to put on an author festival, working with local music groups to put on a concert.
One of my favorite ideas was they rolled out *A LOT* of astroturf to cover their entire parking lot and turn it into a green space for an event. I think something like that could be great for Archibald!
If this sounds like something you're interested in - check out my blogged notes from below ...
Notes blogged during session:
Experiential Learning environment is library of the future. Examples for takeaway of design process.
Tony Tallent - Director of Literacy and Learning in Colombia, SC
Nicholas G. Meriwether - Grateful Dead Archivist, UCSC
Margaret Sullivan
Kelly Bruebaker
Tony Tallent -
"I've got a blank space" Taylor Swift song - think of your library space, blank space. Art doesn't have to be in a frame (framing is expensive).
The artful library, using that phrase, help you talk about what you're moving towards. Open and free does not read as quality, amazing for library, need to present that we are high quality and can have an experience without a ticket.
Colombia city ballet, premiere, 400 people at show, brief, at the library. Create partnership with ballet. Want to do audaciously beautiful, want to perform out in the stacks. Hashtag - cause a commotion with ballerinas on the escalator. Parade ballerinas throughout the facility before the show. Brought in a temporary floor, layered in a literacy element, abbreviated ballet, if bring library card to ballet you get $5 off your ticket.
Hashtag 3 things,
1) announce it (literally and figuratively our spaces and gray matter are open to artful experiences) he made a mini commercial (youtube) on announce it
2) have a beautiful opening (take down the lights to the lowest level, intimate setting) show for artist Alejandro Limas (check spelling), opening burst into spontaneous tango. Large atrium with skylights has open red umbrellas dangling like a mobile. Suspended about a dozen umbrellas from the cupola. State newspaper named it an image for the year. Artist Diane Hughes works with dead plants. They hung dead magnolia trees upside down for four months, do something unusual to announce the show.
3) take it outside your building. Transformed the backlot parking lot, by unrolling *tons* of astroturf! Creating a green space
3) Tag it
Hashtag relationships, rethink the way you work with local artists.
1) Collection development snubbed it's nose at local writers. Have to have two reviews in a quality journal. Changed it's views, embracing self published authors, doing a local author showcase, authors - 125 show up for 5 hours on a Saturday.
2) Equal partner in creating a literary journal - Fall Lines, in 30 days unveiling the second year of fall lines. Filling a niche, putting library on forefront of being a literary supporter.
3) Different types of artists. Brandon Reese, digital artist, willing to work with different ideas (make larger, smaller, put on canvas.
4) Brenda Wong Aoki - won a lifetime achievement award, came to Carolinas from SF, did a storytelling festival. Made a huge deal. How to use Japanese theater in your every day life. Billed it like it was a concert.
5) Biggest band in the kindie music scene - indie rock music for kids that doesn't make ears bleed, Lunch Money, debuts their CDs at the library. They wrote a song about the library and put on their cd.
6) An egg a day by Phil Burns, 86 used to work in early television, dealing with chronic pain, would draw from inspiration, Paolo ___ (spelling), similar to Dali. Artist told him to draw an egg a day, that would be his discipline. Amassed over 3,000 pieces of art work, they were going to be put in a dumpster. Library rescues the art, from CA to NC. Wall of 100, different themes of eggs (egg at home), worked with a grad student. Out of 3,500 chose 350 to show, Anna researched that in Yale Library there are letters between Paul Burns and Paolo ______ and the library got copies of the letters to display.
7) Make music - Solstice, June 21 every year is make music day, they have make music Columbia day. Open self up to say we are open for artful music.
8) Indie Grits - film, art, animation, computers. Art hung on the outside of the building. Hired window washers to apply this. Piece becomes performance art as it peels off building.
9) Partner with theater, offer their editing equipment.
10) Local collaborative, post echo, created first graphic novel and soundtrack (hashtag extroversion), project retro rewind, pipe and drape, backlit, they brought the artists, they brought the 21 and up only crowd.
Artful happenings = artful results
1% - the other 1% for art
The board approved 1% for art and artful experiences
One Columbia for arts and history is the equivilant of the arts council, he got on the board, the friends have helped to support this.
Kirkland Smith uses found objects to create art. Marilyn. The art is so heavy hung by cables.
Artful scavenger hunts, every major show
email - ttallent@richlandlibrary.com
@yes to know
Exhibiting the dead - Nicholas Meriwhether, UC Santa Cruz
Library pledged a dedicated space would be made, the exhibition was promised to be open to be public view. The library had rooms, classroom lecture space, adaptation for space. Challenges - retrofitting space.
1) learn to be a shapeshifter.
Many stakeholders at the table. Difference between power and authority. Curator - public space. Visitor - speak for public. Think about compromises. Assume not a shared goal. Know when to be client, when curator, and when good staff member.
2) collaboration fosters creativity.
3) strengths can be weaknesses
Light through windows - heat affected the heat and posed a danger to artifacts. The special materials made it cost more.
4) Custom is complicated
Minimize costs, maximize flexibility. Can be great - bands conference table morphed into a display case.
5) Values of collections
Teaching and learning. How Academic libraries can support. How art can be successfully integrated into spaces.
Kelly / architects / designers
* Share / create / learn
- Part of a design team to renovate the downtown main Richland Main Library
- Renovation for 180,000 main library, great building, budget is $50 million, squeezing blood from a turnip, 10 additional libraries also renovating
- Need spirit and attitude in design - Library as studio
- 21st century experiential library is a cycle of share, create, learn
- Ideas explored, problems solves, passions uncovered, talents practiced (Carmen photo?)
- Experiencing library as meaningful areas of focus - places and space, as well as concepts, programs and services
1) education / grow 2) arts / lit 3) media /tech 4) business & career 5) garden 6) teens
- 4 floors
- first floor - main / arts
- Youth and teen services, spaces for teachers on 2nd level, garden
- third level - bus / career
- Plastered studio walls with art we like (Sarah Morris, Enid Williams) -
- Humanize building with scale and proportion, bring in vibrant color (vibrancy in programs)
- Milliken (?) - customizable pattern, experimenting with inverse, color
- Enid won a Pollet ___ award (spelling) only SC artist to win, reached out to Seattle artist to figure out contract, and local artist enid agreed to help create the carpet (super cool carpet!) (wow!)
- took idea from places like in New York, every 6 months create vinyl artwork for wall, work with local vendors to be the cafe vendor (rotate)
- Flexible space
- Garden level - large mural of where wild things are (think twice before paint a mural) takes over and defines the space, becomes the icon you may have never wished for. Selecting a color pallete that plays off of the mural, acknowledging, integrating into the library.Kimme will be an artist in residence. A puppet shadow in residence. Creating a tunnel from story theater to collection space (she needed to have projections and puppets).
- (Laser cuter - Moiret (french sounds like moray) pattern creates beautiful movement when opening) Series of holes cut in panel (wood? steel?). Not actual panels sample of image
Kelly - Art = expression, experience, engagement
- What is art? Always gives us an emotion
- Art comes in all sizes, permanent vs. rotating experiences, installations - sculprtual, new media art
Digital Art, time based media, special collections, sculpture, applied arts
- Electrical, acoustic, structural, engineers, artist, donor, grant, all need to be involved
- Art is architecture - metal screen to delineate space, vizwall - student art displayed on digital screen, research collections, Hopkins (Mark Dion - curiosity cabinets) to tell the story of the university (found 700+ objects)
- Art as experience - Austin public library (bats and blackbirds n area) huge cuckoo clock based on birds by Christen ___, partner with artists in local community
- Art as engagement - Virginia commonwealth top sculpture program in nation, #1 art school, art is put in throughout the space, Bubbler - sculpture - seated walls, mesh screen (allows light/air) but also shows art or tv! (wow! cool!)
1) 10 create a vision
2) set the stage (do you want a red wall?)
3) define your budget
4) identify art advocates
5) build a collaboration (right players, stakeholders at the table)
6) look around you (resources, artists in the community)
7) have a maintenance plan
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