Teen Summer Reading 2009
This year’s Teen Summer Reading Club, Express Yourself @ Your Library will be my swan song. I am off to Chicago August 1st, thus leaving my position as Teen Services Librarian on Friday, July 24th. I will be attending beginning my studies for a Masters in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This change is exciting, bittersweet. I will greatly miss my teens at the library and my job in general. So, that said, with this year’s Summer Reading theme being art and expression, very timely.
The above picture is me, from the back facing what is supposed to be (at least conceptually) a museum wall — hence my kickoff program, “Fit for a Museum Self-Portraits.” I wish I could take the cred for this, but it was inspired by the current issue of Readymade magazine (April / May 2009). I want to share this because it is not only an inexpensive and fun craft (at least we are doing it on the cheap — old wallpaper, digital photos printed, and cardboard or small canvases to glue them to) that the teens will most likely enjoy …
Especially when you offer to scan them a JPG for their Facebook page!
