The last few months have been extra inspiring for Mead Public Library's Book to Art Club. We read The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway and reenacted our own war by shooting watercolors out of squirt guns at our papered target. We then used the stained papers to build a city together, and other elements from the story, as we considered the reading.
Monsters were drawn while we discussed The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel by Keith Donohue. Magazine people were unwound and reassembled as we dissected Unwind by Neal Shusterman, and stuffed animal warriors were created as we explored the post-apocalyptic Mort(e) by Robert Repino.
We also had the wonderful opportunity to tour John Michael Kohler Arts Center's exhibit Out, Out, Phosphene Candle by Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck with its nautical elements before we discussed Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and designed our own Nautilus submarines and sea creatures. And, we created paper floral wrist corsages and moon garlands as we deliberated over Anna-Marie McLemore's When the Moon Was Ours.
It has been a busy few wintry months and we are having a blast!
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore