Hyannis!

HyArts District is now a state designated cultural district! The Massachusetts Cultural Council Board officially named the downtown Hyannis area as the Cape’s first state designated cultural district. This designation will help to enhance and grow the already successful arts and culture programs and events in the HyArts Cultural District

Eighth Annual Cape-wide Comcast Art Scholarship T-Shirt Design Competition.

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod is seeking entries for the 8th annual Cape Wide Comcast Art Scholarship T-Shirt Design Competition. The Deadline for submission is Friday April 29, 2011 at 5 pm.
The winner will have his or her original art featured on the t-shirts worn by the volunteers and sold at the premier cultural event on Cape Cod, the 26th annual POPS BY THE SEA concert, featuring the Boston Pops. This competition is open to all 5th through 12th grade students living on Cape Cod. For complete entry guidelines: www.artsfoundation.org/pops-tshirt.
Please email.  popst2011@artsfoundation.org for additional information.

Exciting workshop coming soon!!!!!

You are invited to join Linda Childs, retired Barnstable Public Schools art teacher, for an Altered Book Workshop at the Hyannis Public Library on Tuesday evening April 6^th from 6 p.m. to 8 pm.

Altered book art combines several types of artistic techniques and in this beginner’s workshop you will transform a book into one unique art form.

You’ll use a book provided by the library as the basis for your project, and by removing pages and adding your own creative expressions with various mediums and forms you will soon create your masterpiece!

Class size is limited so be sure to register today and pick up a list of supplies at the Hyannis Public Library, 401 Main Street. Registration fee is $5.00

Fall for the Arts programs!

On October 3, 2009 the children's department will have 2 programs during the day in honor of the Cape Cod Fall for the Arts festival held from October 2-4.

11:15 a.m. Stories and Sculptures- Listen to stories and make sculptures from recycled items.

2:00 p.m. Music Together - Sponsored by Meryl's Music and Arts Center

Rachel Youngling will conduct an early childhood music program. Children and their caregivers will have sharing songs, using instruments, learning rhythm chants and more.

For more information about these programs call 508-775-2280. For more information about Fall for the Arts click here.

Happy Valentines day!.

Here are some great books in honor of Valentine's Day!

Adults

Flirting with danger by Suzanne Enoch.

Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood

Lovers & players by Jackie Collins

Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen

Sailors' valentines by John Fondas.

Sweet liar by Jude Deveraux.

Till we have faces: a myth retold by C.S. Lewis drawings by Fritz Eichenberg


For the kids!

Clifford's first Valentine's Day by Norman Bridwell.

Hearts, cupids, and red roses : the story of the Valentine symbols by Edna Barth; illustrated by Ursula Arndt and Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Junie B. Jones and the mushy gushy valentime by Barbara Park illustrated by Edna Barth Brukus

The Valentine Express written and illustrated by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace.

Valentine's day on-line

http://www.history.com/minisites/valentine/

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Valentin/English/index.php3

http://www.emotionscards.com/museum/museum.html

Picturing America!

The Hyannis Public Library is proud to present Picturing America an education initiative that helps teach American history and culture through the arts. The library now has on display 40 reproductions of art by American painters, sculptors, fiber artists, photographers, and architects. Graciously presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and is distributed in collaboration with the American Library Association.

Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917, 1917
Childe Hassam (American 1859-1935), Allies Day, May 1917, 1917. Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 30 1/4 in. (92.7 x 76.8 cm.) Gift of Ethelyn McKinney in memory of her brother, Glenn Ford McKinney. Image courtesy of the Board of trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.