 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today, and it will be posted to our website for you to watch later at your convenience. I will show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. For anyone who's not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries, so we provide services, training, resources to all types of libraries in the state, so we will have shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12 schools, colleges, universities, corrections, museums, archives, all sorts of things. Really our only criteria is that something to do with libraries, something cool libraries are doing, something we want to share, we do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We sometimes have shows with Nebraska Library Commission staff who come on and present about services and resources and things we're offering through the commission, but we also bring on guest speakers, which we have today. With us we have a trio of presenters from in Chadron, western Nebraska, joining us this morning to talk about the art show program that they did at the public library out there. This was a presentation I will clarify to everyone. We do also here through the Library Commission I do an annual conference, a big talk from small libraries, but we have presentations from libraries that are all from libraries with a FTE of 10,000 or less. And this was a proposal sent into that conference, but we received too many presentation proposals for a one day conference. So I, I'm lucky I have this show where I can say hey I can't fit you in there because it's only one day, but I can have an encompass live and this is one of those that we are we're happy to bring here. So, Susan Whitney and Tony, I will hand over to you to let you all introduce yourself and tell us about what you did with this awesome program. Great. Thank you, Krista. I am going to pull up my next slide should be able to just click on it and it should pop ahead. Okay. Super. So I thought this would be a great way for us to introduce ourselves. My name is Susan Wolfsmeyer I'm the first person in the picture there I work at Shadron Public Library in Shadron, Nebraska, as assistant director and I have an interest in connecting people with science and now I'd like to introduce Whitney Tawahate. Right. I'm Whitney Tawahate. I am the K8 art teacher at Shadron Public Schools, and I was super excited when Susan and Tony brought up the idea of doing a science art related art show and to bring the community together so it was great to be part of this event. And I'm Tony Tibbets I'm an associate professor over at Shadron State College in geoscience, and I just got lucky to get to connect with Susan and Whitney to throw some cool events in the last year and a half. So libraries are great places for informal science education. There's research to back this up. So the slide I'm showing now has a screenshot from the Star Library Network Shadron Public Library got involved with the Space Science Institute and the Star Net Library Network back in 2017. During the eclipse. We applied for and received a grant from the NASA at my library program, and we were a part of that for two years and I've gone on to be a mentor in that NASA at my library program but one of the ideas is that libraries offer a low pressure environment for learning science. And you don't have to be an expert in science to offer science programming to your patron, you can be a guide on the side and so I will post a list of Star Net links to make those available at the end of the presentation. But I just want to point out that libraries are a great place to bring science to your patrons, and there's so many fun ways to do that kind of like how we did by bringing together art and science with an art show. And Tony I'm going to go ahead and pass this over to you. Hey, well, I was really excited I first started working with Susan during some summer night sky events that we were holding the area out here really loves astronomy which has really been fascinating and so we were doing some star parties. And Susan helped me throw a couple we did one out at a local state park and then one at agate national monument. And from that I got on the NASA lists serve and they were, we were excited about the James Webb Space Telescope launch. And so when the call came out to do event, I emailed Susan, so that we could celebrate and collaborate with the James Webb Space Telescope launch. It was just grown from there, which was really awesome. We registered through NASA, and they supported us with a bunch of subject matter experts, one of whom zoomed in, and we had a recorded talk. One of my I had a friend who actually was at JPL as a postdoc and he came in and talked to us so a couple of speakers. I sent us a bunch of papers, bookmarks stickers event ideas activity plans backgrounds and some we had webinars and Q&A session so that they could train us, we could attend those and we can learn a little bit more about the James Webb Space Telescope about the launch process about the unfolding and the origami of the James Webb Space Telescope. We had a lot of support through them, and then Susan made up this amazing flyer you can see here. We had a whole series of events we started off with some family themed activities and they threw at the library with Susan. We did a kids story time at the library with Oh No Astro. And then we started with our community art show unfold the universe. And then we final we ended that up with our celebration. So, all of this was made possible through our collaboration without the support of the public library the public schools and the college. I think that this would have made such an impact on the community it was really a truly cool experience I really enjoyed it. So, through the three of us, we were able to collaborate and get new ideas and figure out how we can make this art show work for not just kids but for the whole community for families for groups of people. It allowed us to do a lot more than we could have if it was just the college or just the library or just the schools trying to throw these events with NASA. And it has led us to work together again, we have successfully done two art shows now. So, kind of spoiling the rest of the show here but we also had a ton of fun doing it we got to see some really cool art, not only from like our Susan or other students at the art in the art program, but also from the community coming together and really making it a truly interesting event. So, when we were focusing on the James Webb Space Telescope. We were focusing on what will the James Webb see. What art do we expect to see and we are trying to integrate those hexagonal discs that are so associated with the James Webb Space Telescope now with the big fail right those golden hexagons. So, we did the art challenge, and we asked what if we were to present this challenge to the whole community. Susan really spearheaded this and she put together a bunch of stuff that she'll show you but we worked together to create a community art show and bring in participants who may not have had an interest in the James Webb Space Telescope before, or maybe didn't know about it so we tried to bring awareness not only to the launch but to what it plans or hoped to see. And I think with that I handed it back over to Whitney. So, having a community art show, and just as an educator and especially as somebody who does kindergarten through eighth grade, you know I see 600 kids a week into fathom trying to come up with an idea of how I would organize an art show that would have all 600 students art on display without partnership and collaboration with the library and college it would have never been able to happen. But I also want to stress that as an art educator because you are stretched pretty then you see lots of students, usually and you can it doesn't have to include extra planning. It was very easy to incorporate all of these ideas that we did from the last two art shows right into my curriculum. The Nebraska state standards for art education have a lot to do with presentation of art and having students learn about the presentation of art and what you can do to include that into the community. And so having Susan be able to come into my classroom and talk to the students about the James Webb telescope and using other community members to be able to incorporate that into my curriculum was a really great way to include that collaboration. So it also is really great for students because my students were able to learn how to work together they knew that they had to work with a theme which is sometimes difficult for students to understand what a theme was but it actually narrowed their ideas down and I was really excited and really excited about some of the things that they came up with to be able to work within a theme. I also gave a lot of the prep over to my students so they wrote their artist statements they mounted their artwork. They labeled their artwork and got it ready for the show and so giving them that lunar learning opportunity was really fabulous to they also got to learn about other people's experiences and their perspectives in art which was a great thing for them. And so we were really excited about the idea of bringing our community together winners a pretty dark time in our town and and there's not always a lot of things to do outside of sports and so we thought hey what could we do to brighten up the darkness of winter and bring people together and can we do it and the answer is a resounding yes and we hope that from this presentation you will see that you can do that too so this is just based on our experience of what goes into planning a community art show. And so to move from the idea to the event. The first thing that Tony and I did when we started was look for additional partners and that was how we were able to reach out to Whitney. So I have these three steps shown here but we're going to break this down. When you're looking for partners you want to think about the goals for your art show and who in your community can help you out. And also, is there something that might benefit your partners for being a part of this and. And I think that this worked out really well we were able to bring our show to our community and really strengthen the relationships between our three organizations for working together in the future. We had talked about a variety of different places to have an art show we thought maybe distributing the artwork throughout the community putting it up. Maybe in businesses would be a good idea but ultimately we settled on on a building that is run by the Shadron Arts Center and we eventually added them as a partner and they let us use this space at no cost. Which was good for us because we did not have a working budget everything was pretty much just committed from resources we had on hand. So if you're thinking about holding an art show you'll want to consider accessibility is their parking is there a way for community members of all ages to be able to get to that space. We did not have any room in our own library facility for this so it was necessary for us to look outside of our walls, and of course cost. So we were very lucky and that the art center didn't charge us for use of that space but those are all things to consider when you're planning an art show for your community. So those are good tips and ideas for I mean many of our small libraries, especially Nebraska, you just have your library room, and that's it you don't have a meeting room or a space you can do this kind of extra thing and reaching out and you know, using the same word or partnering yeah that's so important in our, the tiniest communities yeah. This really is our library has barely enough space for us, our maker space, our staff, our books. So, this was really great. And actually this partnership has gone back and help the art center as well because their mission should include visual arts but they've mostly focused on being a venue for the performing so this has helped them, maybe find a new direction in bringing visual arts to our community. So in the arrow I showed before I made it look pretty simple right it's like oh find your collaborators in a space and then make it happen but the making it happen involves a lot of planning. So I've listed these steps here we're going to go through each of them, one by one. The first step was calling out for artists, and you know you really need to consider how much time people meet need what you for your students what made sense in terms of a timeline. I see my students a little bit different each of them so primary and intermediate students would just kindergarten through fourth grade. I see once a week. And then my middle school students I see every day for just a quarter. And so I wasn't able to do this project with all of my middle school students just because I only saw them for a quarter. Being able to, you know, we just did a couple lessons, it probably took my students about a month on average or so to be able to, you know, be introduced to the project, the idea, think about it, do the project and make the art so but I think probably community members need a little bit longer than school kids just because the school kids are dedicated to their art because they have the class whereas community members have to do more thinking about what they want to do and fit it around all their other obligations. And the other point I wanted to emphasize is that we welcomed artists of all ages and abilities and you'll see that in our in our publicity it was not just professional artists. And so we wanted people to feel comfortable making art. There are a lot of obstacles sometimes it's supplies but oftentimes it's just a mental block against making art. So, moving on the theme the first year. This grew out of programming we were doing with the James Webb Space Telescope, but it was such a success, we decided to do another art show and we really liked bringing together that intersection of art and science. And so this year was really Whitney and Tawny that came up with the theme called rooted in the earth. And the idea was to get people thinking about geology and minerals and so a theme is really great it helps you focus your art show it's not necessary but it really helps people focus their thinking about what kind of art they would like to make. And so we accepted different types of art so the question is you know will you include poetry do you want someone doing performance art, those are all considerations that will depend on your space the amount of time you have and, and just what your interest is in bringing art to the community. And that same question with what media. People are doing digital art now so will they need screens are they going to do digital art and print it out. I don't know if you want to speak to any more of that. But the idea is that there's different kinds of media that people use can make art. We tried to be as inclusive and open as possible. And the first logistical question that we had to address is where and how will people register. We were three organizations coming together we had student art, Whitney took care of the student art and keeping that organized. And so they got their permission slips and stuff directly through the schools. But we had to figure out how to make this work for the community and so you want to go ahead and set a deadline that is as close to the show as possible to account for those last minute folks. Usually two days before the art show seems to be good enough I still had people coming on Friday before the show which was on Saturday. And so we created for both years, a call for artists poster that went out about two to three months beforehand that we put around the community. And you'll notice that we stress that all ages and abilities were welcome. We clarified what geographic region we would allow to participate that way to limit the amount of art but also bring in as much as possible. We emphasized that the event was free. And we also made it very clear where people could go and get their registration materials. We emphasize the importance of having fun. Here's just an example of a social media post that we made. The art show brings a great opportunity for library programming and book displays. I was able to visit the school the first year in association with the James Webb telescope programming. And I brought a book that went through the history of illustrating astronomy and expressing astronomy and artistic ways. We talked to Whitney students about the James Webb telescope, and then Whitney shared with them, you know, the artistic aspects and it was a really fun program. We reached out to local nursing homes preschools daycares assisted living facilities we weren't able to do much in the way of programming but the thought was to let them know that we were that we were planning this art show and that they could incorporate this into their programming to and help residents in our community participate, even if they were homebound or unable to get to the library for other reasons. It also helps to make a list of resources for your online catalog or you can make one from for print resource distribution and I will go ahead and show that in just a moment but it promotes some of the books in your collection. You can use library programming to encourage people to make art so there's all sorts of things that you can do to tie in your library collection and your library programming with an art show. So for example, we promoted our library collection and the show by putting together a list of books that fit our theme. I included books about science but also books about art, and I had a lot of fun putting this together and it actually built interest in our art book collection. Our library also made a art cart that we left out for about two months. We just got different kinds of papers and canvases and we didn't spend a lot of money on this we just got student grade supplies. But we had a section just in our adult area so that people could come and enjoy making art in a low pressure environment, and then we set up a station in our youth area with age appropriate art supplies because you want the kids to have access to non toxic art supplies but you also want adults to have something for themselves as well. And this was great because there are a lot of people in our community who do not have access to art supplies at home. Publicity is really going to depend on your resources at your library but I think it's important to consider how your partners can help. We just did in-house printing, some posters, but our community radio station had Dr. Tibbetts on when they interviewed folks at the college. When our library director went on the radio she took me with her and we talked about the art show. Whitney was able to reach out through the schools, but it's really important to leverage those resources. The marketing department at the college was really excited to help us out. So even though we were working with limited resources and essentially no budget, we were able to work together to get the word out. It can be a challenge to keep track of people. Some folks want to do their registration online. Some folks want to do things on paper and we tried to be as accommodating as possible. So we made a registration form online in Google Forms and then I linked it to a spreadsheet and then I also added information from people as they brought their forms in. The most important information that you really want is the name of the artist and contact information. You want to be able to call them at the last minute if they forget to come and pick up their art. Also, you want to keep track of the number of pieces that people would like to display. That gives you a sense of, as you're going along, what you need to consider in your space and what kind of display materials you might need. It's really important to clarify responsibilities because people are giving you, you know, oftentimes it's amateur art, but we did have some professional artists. So if you do not have security, you need to let people know. You need to be clear about what the rules are, what age groups. People would ask me repeatedly if the event was free, if there was a fee to participate. And of course, being a library, there wasn't any fees. It was a free event and non-juried. We really wanted people to feel comfortable presenting their art and not be judged. So it was a non-juried show. And we clarified all of that in the rules. Those clear guidelines about drop off and pick up times are also really important. And we can answer any questions toward the end. And I will share just a general registration form with you with some of the more specific information taken out in the resources. So again, we didn't have security. We did let the police know that we were having an art show and so they did drive around in the evening. We did not have any problem with security at our show, but it is something to consider and do include that on your release and waiver of liability. You'll also want to include a media release so that you can use images in future promotions for your art show. Those are all really important. So in our registration form, we asked people to let us know what kind of art they were going to participate. The contact information has been really useful. We sent out thank you for participating cards to people. And next year we will send out invitations so that they can join us again when we do this for a third year, which I really hope that we will. You also want to be very clear about which forms need to be returned and which ones they will keep because people do tend to get overwhelmed. There's a lot of information that they need to have for participation. And then there's a lot of information that your library and other organizations will need to have. So you want to make all of that very clear as much as you can on your paperwork. You also want to communicate with your staff. So of course you share things at meetings, but again people are bombarded with information so it can be really helpful to make a cheat sheet. So I just shared the one that we made. The other folks who will need encouragement are the participants. So you want to encourage your participants to not be shy or afraid of sharing their art. And when you do that, you'll find that people become much more relaxed about sharing that because art is a personal thing for many people, right? This is an expression of our innermost feelings or our views of the world. So yes, you did write stuff on the form. It doesn't matter. Your coworkers, the registrants, participants, volunteers are all going to have questions. So just be patient and know that especially if you're doing this for the first time, there may be some confusion. There may be some stress, but if you take time to answer questions, I think you'll find that it will go very smoothly. All right, I'm going to pass this back over to Whitney. All right, so we're going to talk a little bit about setup. And I talked about this a little bit before, but definitely, you know, as an art educator, making my students be in charge and be responsible for their own artwork was key to not having myself be overwhelmed. We also gave them, you know, ownership of their art and they were super excited about being in an art show, you know, and having their stuff displayed sort of community members are their family members to come and look at. So that was really exciting for them. Making sure, you know, that we have people there to greet artists that we the check in was organized that we were able to give each artist a number so that that way we knew ahead of time with that spreadsheet what artwork they were bringing in how many there were, you know, how many pieces they were going to bring with them that type of thing. And so that we were able to label their artwork and keep it together so that we knew whose pieces were whose. We also had artists labels made for each of their artworks the community member artworks and my students created their own art labels, so that that way, community members or viewers of the show who are coming in we're able to see who did the art and we could keep track of it that So, and one of the most important things I think is to be creative with your displays. So we used all kinds of different types of displays. So, when you pick your venue, you know, you want to think about like in talking with the people, especially if it's not like in your own library or, you know, make sure that you visit with the venue and know what they allow and what they don't allow for display So like our venue didn't like things attached to the wall permanently or anything like that and so, you know, we had table easels we had a lot of string and clothes pin things and we'll show. So, so here is one of the displays that we did this year, these were just big refrigerator cardboard boxes that were donated from the furniture store, and then they were just we turned them inside out so that was just our board and then we were able to display student artwork on those so that made a really great display. That's awesome that's so creative. I was looking at the picture I'm like what, how did they have to buy to display on in those kind of like column gas type things but that's an awesome idea. And I suppose you could paint it or something to if you wanted to do something, you know, a different background. Yes, absolutely. So and you know all of my student artwork it looks really professional with the label on it and you know the kids mounted them all to construction paper behind it so it was just inexpensive material that we already had in the classroom. So, that part was really easy and the students did all of that even my kindergartners were able to do that on their own so. So that was great so and I think the next picture shows. So the first year that we did the James Webb telescope we had so many artworks you know I have so many little kids who who wanted to do this that. Some of them we just displayed out on the table and the kids had a fun time coming around and looking at them and trying to find their you know that type of things that was really cool so and you can kind of see the big paper. Oh, looks like they're like the internet and shadow doesn't always the best. Looks like they might be frozen over there at the library. I am secure able to to not do anything permanently on the wall, there were already some clips there that we were able to just string the string through and then clip the students artwork up. And then these were some displays that the community members actually brought themselves so that is a good thing to talk about with your community artists and include in your registration form. Will the community members be responsible for setting up their own work artwork will they be responsible for providing an easel or whatever or is the library or you know your partnership going to provide that opportunity. And in many cases since our artists were amateur artists they did not have easels of their own but we had folks volunteer to build a few easels Whitney shared her resources from the school. Some professional artists brought their own stand easels and we were able to work with some of our partners to get display options. But again, we told the artists that they were responsible for any special displays that they wanted. This is kind of a neat one. The ceramics that are there this was from rooted in the earth or made from clay, and Nancy actually included a little scientific description of how clay is formed and so there was just a lot of really cool tie ins between the art and the science. This is another creative example of displays I thought you might want to. Right, so this is just the strings in the clothes pins again and stuff and they we just have them kind of attached to each other. These were just big. It's called diffusion paper and the kids really enjoyed this. We were able to use some natural dyes on these. This was just a really cool fun project too and they were really showy just in themselves and there was actually some the events were right below those and so it was pretty fun actually you know you wouldn't think of this at an art show you don't want your artwork blowing around but because these were student art and they were kind of light and fluffy like that it made like a whole different type of art effect to be able to have like the fan kind of blowing below that so. And we found a coat rack. There was just at the art center so and these were some light fixtures that my students had made paper sculptures and so it was fun to be able to hang those up there so be creative use whatever you have. So the key is to you know make this not be a stressful event and know that you know this is not a jury professional like art show this is a community art show that you know the things are presented and yes take your time and present them well and make them you know so that when you view them they're well viewed but like it it be creative it's okay to be creative so. Our goal. You know we we probably all came to our collaboration with different goals but I truly believe in making science accessible to the public and I think art was a great way to do that. And we also just need more community in our lives right now. There's so much focus on the things that take us apart but working together and bringing art to the public is a great way to bring the community together. Staffing our show we relied on well we the primary collaborators were the primary staffers so it meant giving some time on us on a weekend, but we also recruited a few volunteers from the friends of the library. The first year, we had a staff member who worked part time she went to the college and recruited folks from the security department to help. We had community members stop by to stuff the show so again just you know be creative it's really nice to have people there. Right now you see Whitney at our greeting table it's nice to have a table and a book where people can sign in. This is also a great place to put information about your upcoming shows things that are going on with your collaborators. We used it as a way to promote the geology department. This year we've been set up a screen to show off events that we've had at the library in the past, in the hopes of getting the community excited about the different things we had going on. And so here we have one of our volunteers staffing our greeting desk and it was a lot of fun. I think people got a chance to talk to each other. This is one of our young community artists. He was new to our town and so this gave him an opportunity to make new friends to reach out to people. It was a really positive experience and he stayed there all day, talked about his art and visited with the other artists. And it's great to encourage your artists to talk about their art. This is a mother and daughter team. She was interested in volcanoes and so she decided to work on art related to volcanoes and learn more about them outside of school. And her mom shared there's a picture on the left that she took the picture right after her youngest child was born and then she went back to that photograph and so if you take time to include the artists and encourage them to talk about their art. She was learning more about the people who you live with and their stories so it could be a great experience. This older lady on the side, you'll notice we also made buttons to promote the show. She wanted to talk about how she makes her art and she brought supplies and even encouraged people to try the methods that she uses to make her art as well. And this was great. Her and her daughter had just recently moved to town. They didn't know anybody. They were active in the arts in their previous community. So both days she was there and sharing about our art and we would send people their way and encourage new connections. And so we had a family that for two years they did collaborative art. This year they made an installation. So the whole family except I think for the very youngest Scott involved in collaborating and making art together. And I have been part of the Girl Scouts Art Venture program for several years now and Art Venture is a program that Girl Scouts can sign up to do to earn a badge and basically they are creating art with a community artist or an artist in their community. And so it's a collaborative piece and then that piece goes on to be auctioned off to create scholarships for Girl Scouts in Nebraska. And so we were really excited this year that we were able to partner with the Girl Scouts and have them do this project at the art show. And so it kind of brought a hands-on thing there at the show. Community members of people looking at the show were able to see these girls creating art with their partners. And so that was a really great experience and to be able to incorporate it into the theme too, which was pretty cool too. We set up an art activity area at the show. This was from the first year. We didn't do this the second year, but we also provided art supplies so families could make art on the spot. And a lot of people took advantage of that and just made their own art and then left it out for other people to enjoy. Here are just some pictures of how our community was connecting through art. I took a lot of pictures of folks interacting. On the left we have a grandmother and grandson. She came to the library every day almost for several weeks as a way to unwind after work and would sit and make art. So by the time she was done, she needed an entire table to display all of her artwork and it was really a neat thing to see. And then she brought her grandson to the library. Right now he's in a blue phase, so he made a blue rock. But it was just really fun to see people get excited about art and then how they came together and reached out to one another. So we'll just share some outcomes. The first year we didn't have as many community participants, but you can see that we had over 500 works of art from the schools. And we had 11 volunteers. The first year we had just about 5050 on Saturday and Sunday. And again, our community is small. So this may not seem like a lot, but it was also wrestling tournament that weekend. So I think that was a pretty good turnout. Competition. Yeah. And so then in our second year, we had 39 community members sign up and many of them brought in multiple works of art and we had 350 works of art from the students. This time, was it all the middle school? Yes. So this year I was just teaching at the middle school rather than the primary and intermediate school. So we just had worked from the middle school. And then you can see that our visitors went up to almost 100 on Saturday. So we had a growth of about 35 in terms of visitors, but where we really saw the growth was in community participation. And that was really fun to see. So again, our community is small, but for us, this was a pretty big event. And so we're, you know, we wanted to leave time for questions, but we and and I'm guessing we'll probably get quite a few, but I wanted to just take you on a tour of our art show. Yeah, I'll just remind everybody. Yeah, if anyone has any questions, comments, thoughts, anything, type into the questions section of your go to webinar interface. And we can make sure you get all your questions asked and answered before we wrap things up. But we will go as long as it takes get through everything and get through everyone's questions to we won't cut anybody off. And Christa, if we could prioritize questions for the art, the art instructor for Whitney first because she has to go back to school. Yeah. We can even go and I know Johnny just had to jump off to I know she has Ted to leave early as well. So thanks Tony here with us anyways but yeah. And these are just pictures so I'll just go ahead and go through some of them. But you can see that, you know, we had the hexagons in the back. And this is from the first year. One really neat thing to see was to go back to some of the pictures from the James Webb telescope first images and compare it with art. I tried to do a little bit of follow up with the students during our science programming and Whitney followed up with her students as well afterwards so it's a great way to reinforce those science concepts. This was particularly funny. The picture on the right shows someone in a rocking chair and they've exhaled out the entire universe but then you can see it's really similar to the image on the left, which is looking at where stars were born. One of the neat things about this image of the Koraina Nebula is that, you know, we've been able to see this in, even from Hubble, but the James Webb telescope allows us to look through those clouds of dust and gas and see those stars. We weren't able to actually pick out those individual stars being born. And so students collaborated on art as well so here you see a piece with two students each doing a separate piece to make a dip tick when it comes together. We had tapestry art. So pretty. A lot of multimedia. This was a piece of community art from one of our younger members. We also had a piece of fiber art where the artist wanted to commemorate the birth of her granddaughter in the moon phase in which she was born. This was inspired by a Lakota constellation and a map of the sky from Lakota star knowledge. And so this is actually looking up Orion's belt is at the top of the hand, which is resting on the bison robe within a hoop. So this relates back to the Lakota's map there night sky through the year. We had someone come in and use our 3D printer to make a model of the James Webb telescope. The second year our theme was rooted in the earth and so we asked people to use natural pigments or to think about the themes related to geology. Okay. Thank you Chris I do have to run and thank you everybody for listening but I do encourage you guys if anybody has questions about you know as an art teacher and how to do a community art show. Absolutely email me and Susan has my email address and she can get that to everybody so if you have questions that you want to direct email to me you can so but thank you guys. Thanks so much. And so we had people use clay as paint. Someone had a little kit from the Walmart they were worried about well can I really put my little garden kit in there well then she made some mushrooms and we really tried to be as open and as welcoming to a broad interpretation of the theme. Here is the one example of textile art this year where a quilter showed a tree rooted in the earth and then she exposed underneath and showed the roots coming through so there was a lot of creative expression in many different ways. The family that collaborated together also did some interpretive installation art. Here's an example of some of our student pictures. They were studying an artist who he represents shading using different colors. And so the students followed his theme in order to make their artworks. One family made a tapestry. So again we weren't sure how we were going to hang some of the larger tapestries but there were hooks. So we really had quite a variety of different things we have a sculpture that an independent high school student did as a study and on the right. This young woman took some pieces of granite from her father's construction business it was left over from making a countertop, and then she painted different scenes of places that she'd been directly on the granite. Tawny Tibbets who was speaking earlier she made a wind chime out of slices of agates and so then you can see the scratch board and then we had someone. Jane one of the friends of the library argued that you know I use cotton string and cotton comes from the earth so I'm going to submit my string art. We even had a gingerbread house because it was grown from soil so there was just such a great variety of art and community participation. Okay. So you mentioned there actually on this slide you just said about examples of the forms and things you didn't get a question from someone is to know like if you would share the course all the documentation you had used yeah. We will. I've already prepared a copy of our presentation that just has the text so if you would, you know, like the nuts and bolts without the pictures will make that available. And I will share all of the resources that I have I'll just take out some of the personalized information. Yep, sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And so that with the recording afterwards of recording of the whole show for everyone and the slide presentation that they use so you'll have that as well. Anybody have any any questions want to make sure you get everyone's questions comments in it before we do wrap things up. As I said we had someone ask about getting your form so they can hopefully replicate this at their library so that'll be nice. This would love to hear about that. And we have a very small staff Christa so you know there wasn't a lot of, of, of, of extra people to help out, but I mean we were able to do the bulk of this work just the three of us and, and I think it's very possible imagine what you could do with more staff in a bigger community. Sure, sure. Any other questions about costs. Now you did say you have mentioned that you were able to get the location for free they've, they, you know, offered that. And that the Whitney mentioned that a lot of the matting and stuff was done with paper construction paper things you already had available but was there any other actual monetary costs that when involved wasn't was part of did not have like money to spend so it was all a donation of time and in kind so we did the printing in house. And that just came out of you know our regular programming budget. You know so I don't really have numbers to give you I think we spent $40 on art supplies to put out but everything. What we did was stuff that we found in house, or in volunteer, you know, I worked that Saturday so my staffing was covered in terms of the hours worked but we really, we really had nothing except our own willpower and the interest of the community to help us along so we would have covered the cost of the venue my director said well we could have handled that but they donated that space to us. So no we didn't, but it's an important thing to consider if you wanted to be more professional. Yeah. Yeah, but we didn't have anything but we wanted to make it happen and so we think it will hence the cardboard boxes the coat racks. It was more important for us to get people interested in science, and to bring the community together, and we just knew that we could, you know, we could make do somehow. Yeah, creatively and I think that's good for social like I said so many small libraries in Nebraska and across the country, don't have this, the money, but in this case the cost quote unquote was just time and energy. So, all you need. Yeah, Whitney and Tony volunteered their time, you know we met a lot a number of times to do the we as much as possible. And we did have community members, you know bring easels, but it was truly a grassroots kind of a thing. Awesome. We do have a couple questions here. I'll do this one here first. If an artist submits different forms of art so like I guess in different something painting something fiber whatever do you. So how did you display them. Did you have the art displayed by artist or by type of art. What was the thinking and how that is a great question we actually kind of looked at things and we tried to make our, our displays as aesthetically pleasing as possible so we did split up the artworks in different places when we needed to. As a courtesy we knew that not every artist would be able to make their own tags and so I did use the same spreadsheet. I used a cut and paste to make labels and I'll share that too was a very simple template that I did in publisher. It took us a little bit of time probably about two hours for 39 people, I don't know give or take, but we were happy to split up art, if, if it meant being able to display it with like pieces, and the artists didn't have a problem with that. I'm sure if they requested something but again, I made these things. Yeah. Yeah. That was a really good question. Yeah, yeah. So, after the show, what happens to all this artwork is it is there some permanent place or just just give it back what's the. And then you need to have their contact information because kids get sick, you know, families are busy they forget things Whitney took care of the student art, and she took that back to the school, and then use that to make a display. So, she's showing what she did, you know, during parent teacher conferences, as for the community art, that's where those numbers were key and where check in his key because we also put on the form. What time the show ended what time it close to the public and we had a two hour window where people could come and pick up their artwork before we had to take down the show. We had the venue for free but we had to be out by six o'clock on Sunday so we had two days. We set up on Friday. Did the show on Saturday and Sunday and then we had to be out by Sunday evening. So we needed all of those artists to come and pick up their work. So if someone didn't come, you know within that timeframe we called them and let them know, and people were responsible for coming to pick up their artwork. So we matched the artists with the number. Yeah, sure. Awesome. All right. That is all the questions I see right now. So, and it's just hit 11am central time on my clock. So I think I'll work on doing a little wrap up here if anyone does have any desperate last minute questions you want to ask of Susan get it into there, but you will have contact information I think. One of the first slides did you have your contact. I didn't, but I will put that in the resources as well. So it'll be on the slides to if you anyone wants to email either Susan Whitney Artani to reach out to them to talk more in depth about anything you can definitely are encouraged to do that. But thank you so much Susan for coordinating this and and and everything this is I thought this is a really fun cool event, especially with the telescope and everything. I think it started science and art together totally makes sense to me. Thank you for having us. This was really exciting. Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much. And thank you everyone for attending. I am going to pull back presenter control to my screen to do my wrap up here. There it is takes a little time. 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