Join us in-person at the Children & Youth Library on Fridays at 3:00 PM. Get creative and make your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards ages 13 years and up.
Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library 200 West Aztec Ave.
September 2nd at 3:00 PM
Tired of buying the same old style of sketchbooks for creating art? Learn how to make your own accordion-style sketchbook using paper, cardstock, cardboard, and glue.
Today’s libraries have programs and resources that go far beyond books. From virtual story times, family game nights, and art classes, to opportunities to borrow audiobooks and stream movies, there’s something for everyone at the library.
September is Library Card Sign-up Month, the perfect time to explore all that the library has to offer. Visit your library at ofpl.online to register for a free library card and be entered in a prize drawing.
Join OFPL and the Just Craftin’ Around Club LIVE on Zoom Saturday, June 12th at 12:00 p.m. for an afternoon of chatting and crafting!
Virtually chat with other community members to exchange craft ideas, stories, and food recipes as we craft together through knitting, collaging, painting, sewing, drawing, crocheting, and more.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Thursday, May 20th at 3:00 p.m. for an art demonstration featuring OFPL’s own Jesica Adeky.
She will be using shapes and lines to depict different objects or animals to tell a story. Drawings are not planned to show the audience the power of visuals using simple drawings as a medium.
Stories may come before or after a drawing is done. Audience interaction is encouraged and suggestions will be accepted.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Saturday, May 15th at 2:00 p.m. for a talk featuring Giao Chi, author of The Girl Who Kept Winter.
Writing a scene takes a great deal of thoughtful planning and hard work. Whether it is for a novel or a comic, a scene has many details that need to be formulated before it is presented.
Connect with Giao Chi as she discusses this process with her audience. Originally from Vietnam, Giao Chi has published more than 300 comics. At the age of 13, she won a professional comic scriptwriting award.
Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Wednesday, May 4th at 1:00 p.m. for a drawing lesson with author and illustrator Ross Van Dusen.
Join us for a reading of Van Dusen’s award-winning children’s book How the Crocka Dog Came to Be and learn to draw your own Crocka Dog. Have your pencils and paper ready!
Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Tune in on Monday, February 22nd at 4:00 p.m. to learn the basics of figurative drawing as we dissect the human body into form and shape using charcoal in this interactive workshop.
CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Mandala, (Sanskrit: “circle”) in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, a symbolic diagram used in the performance of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation. The mandala is basically a representation of the universe, a consecrated area that serves as a receptacle for the gods and as a collection point of universal forces.
CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
OFPL challenges you to sketch the provided weekly themes all month long during Drawcember. Send your weekly artwork through our social media @galluplibrary or use our special hashtag #OFPLsketchchallenge to win fun prizes.
Week 1: December 1st thru 5th – Peppermint (Candy canes, peppermint tea, and more. Incorporate essence of peppermint into at least 51% of your overall sketch)
Week 2: December 6th thru 12th – Gingerbread (Landscape gingerbread housing or gingerbread family portrait. Ideas are endless as long as you incorporate gingerbread into your sketch)
Week 3: December 13th thru 19th – Fire or Ice (Create a sketch of toasty warm or frigid cold)
Week 4: December 20th thru 26th – Holiday Song (Pick any holiday song & create a visual representation of that song)
Week 5: December 27th thru 31st – Hope (Open-ended sketch of hope)
Create your own art using various materials found around your home! These courses are geared towards individuals 15 years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis and can be requested below:
Tune in on Monday, October 5th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration of drawing techniques that explores the relationship between form, light, and perspective. Learn simple techniques to create three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface by sketching and defining drawing techniques.
Drawing Definition:
In fine art, the term “drawing” may be defined as the linear realization of visual objects, concepts, emotions, and fantasies, including symbols and even abstract forms. Drawing is a graphic art which is characterized by an emphasis on form or shape, rather than mass and color as in painting. Drawing is quite different from graphic printmaking processes, because although a drawing may form the basis for replication, it is by its very nature, unique.
