Children's Book Illustrations by Doug Hansen
Exhibit: July 3 - August 30
Reception: Saturday, July 11, 2 - 4pm 

Doug’s artistic career has mostly involved illustration, with over twenty years as a newspaper artist/illustrator at The Fresno Bee in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. Doug left the Bee to teach for twenty years as a professor of illustration at California State University, Fresno. The highlight of those years were the three California-centric children’s books that Doug wrote and illustrated, and which were published by Heyday Books, Berkeley CA. In these books, he created lavish, colorful illustrations which honored the beautiful picture books he read as a child and still inspired him as an adult. Doug is now retired, living in New Paltz with his wife and artist, Susan.

Mother Goose in California (2009) and California, the Magic Island (2016) were painted in gouache. Aesop in California (2013) featured Doug’s watercolor illustrations.

Tiny Roost Gallery
Roost Studios has created a fresh way to show, see, experience and interact with art outside the traditional gallery or museum model. Roost worked with Ryan Solomons, a 3-D fabrication design artist to make the first Tiny Roost: Art on the Outside gallery installed outside the Gardiner Library.

The tiny gallery is a 24"x 36" moveable clear art gallery box that sits on a 36" high steel and wood base. It is weatherproof, powered by solar energy, and has both permanent and changeable signage, LED lighting and audio capability. It will house rotating exhibitions by various artists focusing on a variety of relevant themes.

Open Call for Artist Submissions
Contact: Marcy Bernstein at marcy@roostcoop.org or Nicole Lane at nlane@rcls.org

Library Exhibit Space
The primary purpose of the Gardiner Library Policy on Art Exhibits is to enrich the library experience of the Gardiner Library Patrons, particularly:

To enhance and increase community appreciation of the arts, to present a variety of exhibitions by artists in the visual arts as well as exhibitions of educational and/or historical significance, and to help local artists increase their public exposure.

Art Exhibit Policy and Application  

Display Case
It is the policy of the Library, as part of its mission to enrich the quality of life, to provide space for exhibits and displays from the Library's collection and through those of other local community agencies or individuals.

Display Case and Bulletin Board Policy