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Bass Harbor Memorial Library

Celebrate our community with books!

Bass Harbor Memorial Library
89 Bernard Rd. PO Box 99
Bernard, ME 04612
(207) 244-3798

We are returning to Curbside and Window Service Only Starting 1/5

January 4, 2021 By Lisa Murray

Due to the closure of all AOS 91 schools and the recent local spike in Covid19 cases, the Bass Harbor Memorial Library will be moving to curbside and window service only for at least two weeks, starting Tuesday January 5, until Tuesday January 19. Only staff will be allowed inside the building yet all of our cleaning and quarantining protocols will be the same. 
We will continue lending materials via our lobby or outside tables. We will still offer printing and Wi-Fi and will also be able to assist you through our service window located to the right of the main entrance. Just ring the bell and we can help you. 
We also offer delivery of materials on the west side of the island. Please email or call to place holds and arrange for delivery. 
Click here for our complete curbside procedure.
Please call 207-244-3798 or email librarian@bassharborlibrary.com to request books or services. Our hours will remain the same: Tuesday and Wednesday 10-5, Thursday 10-8 and Saturday 10-2. 
If you or anyone you know requires any additional assistance due to illness, quarantine or general pandemic information/help please do not hesitate to call or email me. 
Be well, Lisa Murray

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“The Gift of Art” Online Marketplace

December 10, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Throughout the month of December the Bass Harbor Memorial Library hosts works made for giving, created by local artists. All pieces are under $250 with 10% of sales donated to Library programs and materials. Browse online, come into the library or utilize our curbside window service. Call 244-3798 or email librarian@bassharborlibrary.com for more information.

Prices are included in the images or written on each photograph. Click the thumbnail to view a larger image.

Cherie Magnello

Hand fabricated sterling silver and gemstone earrings, pendants and rings.

Katrina Linscott

Signed copies. Hardcover $33.95, Softcover $23.95

 

Nan Ulett

  • $80
  • $145
  • $60
  • $75
  • $90
  • $45
Seaglass and pottery shards from Maine and Cape Breton beaches, hand painted.

 

Jean Forbes

  • Bass Harbor Head Light, watercolor $100
  • Maine Coast, watercolor $100
  • Seawall East, watercolor $100
  • Winter Marsh, acrylic $100
$100 each: 7″ x10″ (before matting and framing)

 

Roxane Scherer

  • colored pencil $200
  • acrylic $35
  • pencil $75
  • acrylic on canvas $100

 

Marie Fanore

 

Chris Dunbar

Elizabeth Keenan

 

Katrina Spofford

  • Textile & Lino Shadowbox $50
  • Textile & Lino Shadowbox $50
  • Textile & Lino Shadowbox $50
  • Textile & Lino Shadowbox $50
  • Lino prints $25 B&W, $45 color
  • Lino prints $25 B&W, $45 color
  • Assorted jewelry
  • Assorted jewelry
  • Journal covers $15sm, $25lg
Stop by for a larger selection of prints and jewelry

 

Madison Jones

  • earrings $20

 

Leslie Jones

  • $12

 

Ed Wood

View the full catalog of Ed’s images in the library. Contact us for information on prints and reproductions. Prices vary depending on size and format.

 

Roberta Sprague

  • 4″x4″x1.5″ $65
  • 4″ x4″ $45
  • 8″ x6″ $125
  • 4.5″ x 3.5″ framed $45
  • 6″ x6″ x 1.5″ $85
Tissue paper and paint, small works

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, craft, gift, Maine, Tremont

Gift of Art Marketplace

November 25, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Support local artists this season! Throughout the month of December, the library will host artwork and handmade items from local artists, priced for holiday gift giving. All pieces are under $250.

Works include: Jewelry from Cheri Magnello and Katrina Spoffard; folk art driftwood pieces from Chris Dunbar; jewelry, glass pieces, and wooden fish from Nan Ulett; Ceramics from Liz Keenan; Autographed copies of the book “Disco and Me” from Katrina Linscott; Artwork from Jean Forbes, Roxanne Scherer, Roberta Sprague, and Marie Fanore.

Photographs of pieces will be added to this post and our website. Shop safe at the library with our 5 patron limit or our curbside/window service.

Call 244-3798, or visit www.bassharborlibrary.com for more information.

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Hours and Building Procedure!

November 4, 2020 By Lisa Murray

**The library will be back open to patrons starting on Tuesday January 19 at 10am. We welcome 5 patrons at a time for 30 minutes. We will continue to offer interlibrary loans, curbside, window service and home delivery. You may also reserve the entire library for a 30 minute time slot for you and your family, if you’d like the library to yourself. Call 244-3798 to make book requests.**

The Library at 89 Bernard Rd in Bernard is open to the public for 5 masked patrons at a time, for 30 minutes, on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10-5, Thursday from 10-8, and Saturday from 10-2. We will continue to offer curbside service. Families can reserve exclusive use of the library for a 30 minute block during any of our open hours.

In order to enter the Library, please abide by a few very simple common-sense requirements:

  • MASKS AND DISTANCING REQUIRED
  • PLEASE STAY HOME IF SICK OR HAVE BEEN OUT OF STATE WITHIN 2 WEEKS
  • REFRAIN FROM HANDLING MATERIALS UNNECESSARILY
  • DISINFECT AREAS OF USE (COMPUTERS, BATHROOM…)
  • PLACE BROWSED MATERIALS IN BINS FOR 4 DAY QUARANTINE
  • RETURN MATERIALS ONLY IN THE OUTSIDE TUB

If you are uncomfortable with any of the above, we welcome you to utilize our curbside service. Information can be found HERE. To review our complete opening procedure and operations protocol, please go HERE. All of the above in-building expectations will be posted outside and the full document on our website. By entering the building you agree to abide by Library protocol.

We will offer the following services: Lending of all materials, interlibrary loan, printing, copying, faxing, indoor/outdoor wifi use, 2 computers for patron use, space for tutoring and one on one distanced meetings, bathroom, outside book drop during open hours, book fair donations, digital newspaper subscriptions on public computers, used books for sale.

The following services and materials we CANNOT offer right now: Toys, games, puzzles, food or drink, in-person programming, public use of space for large meetings, in-library magazine and newspaper reading (check out is OK), free magazines, in-person tech help, 24/7 book drop, non-staff use of staff areas.

We have a wonderful new space and very excited to welcome you back for a safe and enriching library experience. Please don’t hesitate to email or call me with any questions at 244-3798.

Lisa Murray, Director







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Halloween Book Giveaway

October 21, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Come to Bernard for free books! We have handpicked literary treats from picture books to YA novels, for all who stop in at the Library during our open hours, Oct 21-31, 2020. Parents welcome too! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11-4, and Saturday 10-2

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Halloween

Climate Reality in Maine

October 8, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Oct 10, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Former Vice President Al Gore’s stunning slides illustrate this Zoom talk by Maine Climate Reality leaders Derek Ahi and Hilary Hosmer. Hosted by Holly Hosmer.

Join Zoom Meeting with one click:https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/83011505060?pwd=QjhNcEpCa01UQ1JLWThTdkpnQ3FkZz09

Or sign into Zoom and enter when prompted: Meeting ID: 830 1150 5060Passcode: Bass

One tap mobile+16468769923,,83011505060# US (New York)
Join by SIP83011505060@zoomcrc.com
Join by Skype for Businesshttps://networkmaine.zoom.us/skype/83011505060

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Create, Communicate, Connect! Public Art Show at the Kelley Farm, Bernard

July 28, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Monday August 3 – Saturday August 15, 2020  

For 15 years, the Bass Harbor Memorial Library has held a week-long, half day Art and Nature Camp for children aged 6-11. In-person camp was not possible this summer, but thanks to a generous grant from the Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund, camp directors Kathie Pratt and Dawn Nuding retooled and adapted a new format, offering the same high quality art instruction, materials, and fun projects, but remotely. 

The library is partnering with Maine Coast Heritage Trust to install an open air art show at Kelley Farm in Bernard.

The show consists of artwork by the children who participated in art camp, placed on signposts.  Letter signs which spell out our theme, will span the road front.  This message invites people to come view the work, but also suggests that anyone, in these often isolating times, can also create in their own way, communicate with their creations, and therefore connect with their community.  

This year’s theme “Create, Communicate, Connect” addresses the shared experience of confusion, loss and isolation the pandemic has created. On the grounds of the preserve, paintings by the children will line the pathways between the community garden plots.  Families can safely enjoy this open air art walk at their leisure, in the natural beauty of the setting.  

http://bassharborlibrary.com/bhml-art-camp-project-list-and-journal-prompts/

Art Camp Art Walk 2020

Art Camp participants projects.

  • Genevieve Burke
  • Genevieve Burke
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • By Cole Lessard and friends
  • Juniper Macko painting at home
  • Juniper Macko painting at home
  • Oliver and Delfina
  • Oliver and Delfina
  • “pagoto SANTOUÏTS” by Isaiah Brugman “icecream sandwich” in Greek
  • Isaiah Brugman
  • Liberty Carter really gets into her art supplies!
  • Junior Carter and Dad Spiff work on one of the projects

Filed Under: Library News, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, create, Family Friendly, Kelley Farm, Kids create, open air artwalk

BHML Art Camp Project list and Journal prompts

July 27, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Bass Harbor Memorial Library Art Camp 2020
Create, Communicate, Connect

Project list and Journal Prompts

Project List

Phone Numbers for Questions:
Kathie: 207-244-0558 or email: kathie.pratt@bassharborlibrary.com
Dawn: 917-670-5262 or email: dawn@tccmaine.com
YouTube Intro Videos: Kathie Pratt & Dawn Nuding

This year Art Camp’s theme is “Create, Communicate, Connect.” The Pandemic has created a shared experience of confusion, loss and isolation for us all. This has been especially true for people your age. During the past few months you have braved a new way of learning, suffered the loss of sports games, birthdays, time with friends, trips and more. Our theme invites you to use art and all of its possibilities as a way to share your thoughts and feelings and stay connected to who you are and to each other. We want the world to hear what you have to say!

 

Kelley Farm Installation:

This project, more than any other, is our chance to connect to each other as a group, and to the larger community.  We need your commitment to make it work, each art camper is an essential part of this whole.  Kelley Farm Preserve is part of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.  They are allowing us to install an outdoor “Art Walk” on the grounds for your friends and families to visit safely.  Many people take walks there, and some have garden plots. So this show is for them, too.  

YouTube Videos: Color Wheel and how to use your paint

                              Mixing Paint

                              Color and Contrast

This project has two important parts.

  1. Letter signs:

We have signs with one letter on each, to stretch along the road front and spell out our theme “Create, Communicate, Connect.”  This will invite people in, and also tell them what we are doing. It sends the message that anyone, in these times, can do the same in their own way. We need you to paint a letter and bring it back for us to install.  Please be sure the letter shows up. Use contrasting colors to make that letter pop! If your letter is dark, your background should be light. Use the black outline or paint over it, jazz it up, get creative, but make sure you can still read the letter and see it from a distance. Put your name on the back if you want to keep it after the show.

  1. Your painting:

We have a 2nd plywood for your painting. We will put it on a signpost and create an art show along the path near the gardens. The subject can be whatever you like. You could paint something you think others may enjoy, you could express a little about who you are or what’s important to you.  It can be big, simple shapes or very detailed, because the viewer will be walking and can pause and look closely at it. Please sign your work, be proud, own it!  (Initials are fine if you don’t want to do your full name.)

The show will be up for two weeks. Then you need to come pick up your work because we have no room to keep it. You can take your letter, too, if you want. 

 

Journal:

These journals are really special and we are so excited to be able to give one to each camper this year. Inside your journal you will find a list of prompts/ideas for journal projects. We invite you to try a few during the week of camp, and/or make up your own. A journal is a great place to exercise your creative brain and build your art skills, so we hope you continue to use this journal long after camp is over. We hope you will treasure it as a book about you and your personal artistic journey.  

Bonus: You will also find a blank postcard inside your journal. What better way to connect than to send your art to someone!

Cardboard Creations:

YouTube Video: Tips for cardboard

One of the favorite projects of past art camps has been making 3-D constructions from household cardboard.  Make your ultimate house or room, “machines”, people, animals, or crazy abstract art.  You can use any materials from your kit, or stuff you have at home to add to your pieces.  The paper in your kit can easily be attached with a glue stick.  Hot glue is great for attaching cardboard or other objects to cardboard, but we can show you some other ways if you don’t have that.

Challenge Project:

We double-dog-dare you to stretch your imagination and make art from the objects in the bag marked “What can you make with these?”  You can add these to your cardboard creations or start a whole new piece.  You are welcome to cut, fold, poke holes, add other media, or whatever else you need to do, to achieve your desired result.  Don’t worry if it seems impossible at first.  It is meant to challenge your creative brain. Sit with it awhile, inspiration will come.

Collage:

YouTube Video: Tips for collage

Collage is the bringing together of parts to make a whole. The papers in your kit are for you to create collage on the covers of your journal, inside on the pages of your journal, on your cardboard art, and/or on a separate sheet of paper. You could even use one of the larger pieces as the background and collage onto that.  

Banner/Flag:

In these times of isolation, we can’t get out to visit and talk like we’re used to doing.  Many people are using signs and banners to communicate their opinions and ideas. Paint a message with words and/or pictures to hang outside your house or in a window. It could be a cheerful message of hope or a comment about an issue that’s important to you.

Bonus:  If you have leftover paint, you can personalize your canvas tote bag.

 

OK, go forth and make some art!

There are plenty of choices, you can do all or just some of the projects.  (But PLEASE do the sign and painting!) You can do them at your own pace, and keep going past the week of camp. Think about what it means to you to create, communicate, and connect as you do your art. We hope these projects will inspire you to think of new ones. Thank you so much for being a part of Bass Harbor Memorial Library Art and Nature Camp 2020!  Many thanks to the Witham Family Fund for their generous donation for supplies. 


Journal Prompts

 

This journal/project for Art Camp is meant to be a place for you to play and experiment. To fill the space between larger projects and to spend some quiet, mindful time. We invite you to try some of the prompts listed below, or to get creative with your own ideas! Some material suggestions will be listed, but otherwise no rules…anything goes!!!!

 

 

o   Drawing a Day

Make one drawing in this journal for every day of Art Camp…and maybe even beyond. This can be something that takes a while to perfect and/or a quick sketch or scribble. Also think about using collage or writing. Doing something creative every day is good for our bodies and our minds!

 

o   Jennifer Judd-McGee

Jennifer is a local artist who has a shop in Northeast Harbor called Swallowfield. She created the coloring sheets included in your journal and has more up on her website: https://swallowfieldshop.com/stuff-to-do. Have fun coloring these and maybe even pick a saying you like and try out Jennifer’s style.

 

o   Postcards

You will find a blank postcard in your journal as well. Think about decorating it. Maybe even try one of the Journal Prompts listed here. Then send it to someone you miss or haven’t seen in a while.

 

o   Emotional Landscape

Think a traditional landscape (rolling hills, trees, flowers, mountains, a stormy ocean) but with an “emotional” twist. Create a landscape that shows how you are feeling. Think about what you would include, what is the weather doing? Where is the location?

Materials: Think about including color.

 

o   Leaf Rubbing

Take a trip outside and forage for some foliage. Look for interesting leaves and ferns. Place these under a sheet of journal paper (you may want to put a scrap paper behind them to protect the next sheet in your book, or not and see what happens). Use one of the materials listed below to color over the area of your paper where you feel the leaf pressing through and see what it reveals.

Materials: You can use most drawing materials. The side of a pencil or colored pencil works well. So do crayons with the wrappers taken off.

 

o   Spirit Animal

Spirit animals or guides come from Indigenous traditions. Think of the animal or animals that most represents you and draw/paint/collage it. As always, feel free to get creative and make up an animal or use an animal from the magical world.

 

o   Monochromatic

Make a drawing using only one color. Play around with using different shades of that color (dark green, light green, yellow green, turquoise, etc.)

Materials: Something with color and a variety of it like colored pencils or markers.

 

o   Mandala

Mandala means circle in the ancient language of Sanskrit and they are used in Eastern traditions as a meditation tool. A lot of mandalas have a geometric pattern. Art Therapists study mandalas a lot and have found that creating and/or coloring mandalas is very calming to our minds. You have probably come across mandala coloring pages at home or at school. To make your own mandala, start by tracing (or if you are brave drawing) a circle. Small plates work great for tracing. To create a geometric pattern start by either finding the center of your circle and working your way out, or start your pattern on the outside edge of your circle and work your way in. You can also just draw an image or create a collage inside the circle. Remember that you are not a robot, so your pattern may not be perfectly symmetrical.

Materials: A circle to trace. Drawing, collage or paint materials.

 

o   Draw your Dream Room

If you could have any room, what would it be? Think big, maybe it looks like your room now but with an upgrade. Throw in a swing or a slide. Maybe even design a whole house.

 

o   Favorite Song Drawing

Play your favorite song and use lines and colors to show the melody. Or draw a picture about how the song makes you feel or a memory it reminds you of.

Materials: Your favorite song, colored pencils, markers, pastels or gel pens.

 

o   Drawing from the Right Side of Your Brain

This is taken from the book Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. Betty developed a way of teaching people how to draw realistically by training them how to see things in a different way. Some of the exercises seem a little weird, but they are meant to help you use the right side of your brain to really look at what you are drawing rather than trusting the left side of your brain to interpret what it sees. For this exercise find a picture from a magazine that you would like to draw. Now turn that picture upside down and do your best to draw it. Make sure to look at the lines and shapes and spaces and do your best to recreate them on your page.

 

o   Scribble drawing

Fill the page with random scribbles. Now look at your scribbles and see if you can find any images in them. Use a different color or material to color in those images. With two people, you can each create a scribble and swap to see what images you find. You can also use your scribble as an abstract coloring page.

 

o   Safe Space

Draw or collage a picture of a place where you feel totally safe and comfortable. Think about all of the things you would want to be there. It may be real or imagined or even a combination of both.

 

o   Self Portrait

Grab a mirror and take a look at yourself. Draw what you see. This is a great project for using pencils. Think about using shading  instead of lines to make things like the curve of your nose. If you like drawing faces, see if you can get someone in your family to sit while you draw them too!

 

o   Still Life

Grab a bunch of fun objects and create a still life. Experiment with different shapes and sizes, maybe even something transparent like a cup or bottle. Set the objects up on a flat surface like a table or a desk and draw what you see. This is another good practice for improving drawing skills.

 

o   Design a Mask

Masks are a new part of life for now, but why not make them fun. Design your dream mask. What would it look like? Would it have any cool functions…like air conditioning or lights?

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Saturday, July 25, 2020:     Reference List, from The Tired Apple Tree

July 25, 2020 By Lisa Murray

Reference List

From “The Tired Apple Tree” published by Blackberry Books; new edition (May 1990)

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Friday, July 24, 2020:     Old Sam, from The Tired Apple Tree

July 24, 2020 By Lisa Murray

From “The Tired Apple Tree” published by Blackberry Books; new edition (May 1990)

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    Trustee Meeting

    January 13, 2021  5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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    Bass Harbor Memorial Library

    Meeting of the Trustees – January 13, 2021 – 5:00 PM 

    In response to the COVID surge, this meeting will be held via ZOOM and is open to the public.  Contact Librarian Lisa Murray @ 244-3798 to receive the password

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