Arrow, Emily
Summary: "Beloved children's entertainer Emily Arrow's first picture book, perfect for (little) makers everywhere: a story about finding a space to create! A young bunny makes the rounds of a studio building, taking in all the different artists in their habitats. Making, thinking, sharing, performing . . . but can our bunny find the perfect space to let imagination shine? In this charming ode to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARRCameron, Julia
Summary: "The first new Artist's Way tool in more than 30 years from "the Queen of Change" (New York Times) author Julia Cameron. In the thirty years following the publication of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron relied on an essential tool to help her through every juncture in life: writing for guidance. Now, in Living the Artist's Way, Cameron finally shares this method with the world as the fourth main...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 CAMKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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Summary: "From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARPressfield, Steven.
Summary: "In this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling author Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity. The War of Art is an inspirational, funny, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to galvanize every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Irish Entertainment 2012
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Summary: "A stunning picture book ode to the joys of the creative process and the spirit of collaboration. This lyrical story from Danielle Davis and Mags DeRoma is perfect for fans of Kevin Henkes, Gyo Fujikawa, and Julie Fogliano. To make ... a cake, a garden, a song, you first gather, then make--and wait. To make a story (like this one), you gather, make, wait. To make anything--big or small--it will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 GURMcPhee, John
Summary: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 MCPFhilippe, Jean
Summary: "A wildly imaginative fantasy graphic novel about the responsibilities of creation.... Leftstar can't seem to access the world they've been building. They also haven't slept in a long time. These things are almost certainly unrelated, and they should really go get the mail, anyway. But their trip to the post office is interrupted by a curious visitor: an enormous fruit bat. Whisked away in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FHIBarry, Lynda
Summary: "For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BAROliver, Mary
Summary: A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OLIGrogan, Jake
Summary: "A collection of the true stories that inspired 202 of the world's most famous books"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 808.3 GROBarry, Lynda
Summary: "It" is a highly imaginative, image-and-words collage, mashed-up with a how-to-write book and highlighted with autobiographical snippets. Barry's purpose is to urge readers to interact with their own imagery, ideas, and stories, then write and/or draw them. The text wanders through a colorful, free-form garden of birds, animals, flowers, and snippets of letters and quotations, almost demanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARCarter, Ally
Summary: Have you always wanted to write a book, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you're really great at writing the first few chapters . . . but you never quite make it to the end? Or do you finally have a finished manuscript, but you're not sure what to do next? Fear not -- if you have writing-related questions, this book has answers! Whether you're writing for fun or to build a career,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 808 CARMountain Dreamer, Oriah
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 MOUWaters, John
Summary: "When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, the speech went viral, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms. Now we all can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 WATSmee, Sebastian
Summary: "Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 SMEFlaherty, Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 FLABerlant, Lauren Gail
Summary: In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint--each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long--amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 BERBruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 BRUCameron, Julia.
Summary: Outlines a twelve-week program for overcoming a creative block or otherwise working through dry periods in an artist's life, in a guide that covers such topics as staying focused, starting new projects, and finding inspiration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2006