Tuesday, May 20, 2025 -4:00pm to 5:00pm + Storytime Room, Children's Room World Club is on the third Tuesday of every month! Each time we will discover a new world culture through engaging stories, games, crafts, activities, and even delicious food. Join us for a fun celebration of Japanese culture! In Japan, cherry blossoms (sakura) symbolize beauty...
Phil Dorothy Drawing Studio 22 May 2025 | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Lower Level | 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA Connect with fellow artists at our Thursday night life drawing group, a gathering held in memory of our dear friend Phil Dorothy. Please bring your own drawing supplies, such as graphite, charcoal,...
Sunday, May 25, 2025 -2:00pm to 4:00pm + Storytime Room Create a colorful rainbow using cereal and cotton balls! Let your creativity run wild as you mix colors and add fluffy clouds to finish your masterpiece. ¡Crea un arcoíris colorido usando cereal y bolitas de algodón! Deja que tu creatividad vuele mientras mezclas colores y añades nubes...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 -4:00pm to 5:00pm + Storytime Room Book to Art Club is the fourth Tuesday of every month for school age children. Each month we will read a picture book and create custom art inspired by the story! For our last Book to Art Club of the school year, we are getting ready for...
Summer Reading kick-off for adults and teens We're bringing browsing back! Pick out books to start your summer reading during our second annual Browsing Party. Spend some time flipping through fiction and nonfiction books with refreshments, music, and extra librarians on hand to offer recommendations. We'll have some interactive ways for you to share your favorites...
Body Parts 31 May 2025 | 10 am – noon Lower Level | 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA Drawing on her vast experience from countless portraits and figure studies, Beppie Weiss will guide participants in understanding the intricacies of the human body to enhance drawing accuracy, with assigned homework to reinforce learning. Artists...
Use Delicas in flat peyote stitch to make this lovely bracelet. In this class you will learn how to do beaded color grading in a simple, yet efficient manner. Then you will learn to finish the edges of this bracelet with a picot technique. Finally, learn to add a clasp with a loop closure. That's...
Sunday, June 1, 2025 -12:30pm to 3:30pm + Digital Media Lab Register7 of 20 registered For this 4-part series of workshops, we will explore tabletop game design! These are no-experience-required workshops that introduce attendees to making games with cards, dice, tokens, boards, or in the mind with plenty of rules! Part 1: Brainstorming Game Design! First in this series...
Sunday, June 1, 2025 -2:00pm to 4:00pm Storytime Room Create a colorful trailing kite using paper sacks! Let your creativity run wild and decorate your masterpiece. If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library. This event is open to the public.
Monday, June 2, 2025 -6:30pm to 7:30pm + Digital Media Lab Register11 of 15 registered Your library has a Cricut Maker 3! Anyone interested in using the Cricut to create paper cut-outs, vinyl decals, iron-on designs, or other creations is invited to this introductory session. Stacey will walk us through the following: What you can make with a...
3 June 2025 | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Lower Level | 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA This is a long-pose, uninstructed open session for drawing portraits from life. Anyone is welcome of any ability level and you can work in any non-toxic medium you choose. The model will sit clothed in one...
05 June 2025 | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Lower Level | 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA Practice your figure drawing skills with fellow artists at our Thursday night group, a gathering dedicated to the memory of Phil Dorothy. The model will explore diverse poses throughout the session. These sessions include drawing from...
