📆 Sat. 2/1 – Illustrating Yourself and Your Neighbors. This workshop will instruct you on simple ways to illustrate your community while focusing on color and composition.

Alexandra Bowman is a California native, illustrator, designer, and muralist based in Oakland. She creates art that reflects on the female experience and the importance of representation through inclusive imagery of gender, race, and culture. Some of her clients include Girlboss, Facebook, The Guardian, National Institute of Reproductive Health and the New York Times. View her work at alexandrabowman.com 

Part of the "My Community" Youth Poster Exhibition workshop series presented in partnership with Facebook Analog Research Lab and Menlo Park Library Foundation.

2:00pm @ Belle Haven Branch

📆 Sun. 2/9 – Changing Our World with Public Posters. In this hands-on workshop participants will generate ideas for public posters, thinking about how we can turn political or social frustration into positive and effective action to create real transformations in our world. Together we will brainstorm ideas and experiment with text and image layout to create dynamic public posters.

Lena Wolff is an interdisciplinary artist whose work extends out of American craft and folk-art traditions while also being connected to geometric abstraction, social practice and feminist art. Wolff’s broad but interconnected practice includes works on paper, drawing, collage, sculpture, murals, text-based pieces, embroidery, public projects, music and frequent collaborations with artists across disciplines. In 2017 she released a series of public posters that became widely distributed and adapted for different cities across the Bay Area, starting with "Berkeley Stands United Against Hate' followed by a run of posters in English and Spanish aimed at encouraging greater voter participation in elections. Wolff has exhibited her work widely and was honored in fall 2019 by the City of Berkeley her work as an artist engaged in social practice. View her work at lenawolff.com

Part of the "My Community" Youth Poster Exhibition workshop series presented in partnership with Facebook Analog Research Lab and Menlo Park Library Foundation.

2:00pm @ Belle Haven Branch

📆 Fri. 2/28 – Artist reception and unveiling – “My Community” Youth Poster Exhibition. The Menlo Park Youth Poster Exhibition celebrates youth creative expression and inclusive community spirit. A wide selection of submitted posters will be placed on public exhibition at the Belle Haven Branch Library beginning with an artist reception and unveiling on February 28. Event and exhibition co-sponsored by City of Menlo Park, Menlo Park Library Foundation, and Facebook Analog Research Lab 6:30pm @ Belle Haven Branch

📆 Wed., Feb 12 – Deadline for entries – “My Community” Youth Poster Exhibition . The Menlo Park Youth Poster Exhibition celebrates youth creative expression and inclusive community spirit. Original works of poster art on the theme, “My Community" may be entered for consideration in one of the following school grade categories:

• Grades 2-3
• Grades 4-6
• Grades 7-8
• Grades 9-12

The deadline for entries is February 12, 2020. Limit one entry per youth/child. Entrants must live or attend school in Menlo Park, California. Entry forms are available at the Main Library at 800 Alma St. and the Belle Haven Branch Library at 413 Ivy Dr.

Download the entry form and rules (PDF)