Upcoming Events At FLPL For January

FLORENCE-Florence-Lauderdale Public Library is kicking off the New Year with several fun events.  Check out these upcoming events for January.

Childhood Classics: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustration

Jan. 2 to March 24

Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library

This national exhibit from the Art Kandy Collection features more than 140 original works and explores the history of children’s book illustration from pen-and-ink drawings common at the turn of the century, to today’s digital creations. It is one of the most extensive exhibitions on this subject ever organized and is made possible through funding from the Alabama Council on the Arts, the Kennedy-Douglass Trust, and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Foundation.

What is illustration? with children’s book author and illustrator Lori Nichols

11 am Saturday, Jan. 8

Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts

(This is an associated program in conjunction with the Childhood Classics exhibition)

Free

Author and illustrator Lori Nichols will discuss how she creates picture books with illustrations and stories. She will go behind the scenes of her process to show how imagination and play can help direct the art to tell a story.

“I work in a variety of mediums depending on the story,” Nichols says on her website, lorinichols.com. “Pencil, pen & ink, collage. Sometimes all at the same time.”

Genealogy Class Series begins in January

To register: email classes@flpl.org

or call 256-764-6564, ext. 130

FREE

This Genealogy Class Series will be offered on four Tuesdays in January from 1-2:30 p.m. in the library’s Collaboratory on the second floor. Classes will be led by Local History and Genealogy Associate Lee Freeman, Digital Archivist Colby Dow, and local historian assistant Jordan Collier. Classes will include Basic Introduction to Genealogy on Jan. 4; Introduction to FamilySearch and Ancestry on Jan. 11; Introduction to fold3 and Newspapers.com on Jan. 18; and Basic Introduction to the Digital Archives on Jan. 25.

Media Release/Florence-Lauderdale Public Library