Posted by Candice on Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015
There's just a little over one week left to get your submissions in for this year's Art Purchase Prize contest! We're accepting entries through Sunday, October 4, and the first round of judging is on Tuesday, October 6.
Find the full criteria on our website; if you have any questions please contact Candice Smith at csmith@icpl.org or 319-887-6031.
Winning works of art are added to the Library's Art To Go collection, located on the first floor, on the wall separating the adult fiction collection and the Children's Room. Cardholders can check out two works at a time, for two months. The collection is made up of original art from the contest, along with reproductions of well-known works of art. So, if you've still got some bare apartment walls to decorate, or want to try out a new kind of art in your home, stop by the Library!
To be fully transparent, I'll read anything by Natalie Haynes, so I'm probably not a fair judge. I've loved all her works, and this is no exception. Not only is Haynes to be commended for giving voice (sometimes, for the first time) to characters we know from the Greek myths, but her own voice--influenced by her skill, her amazing intellect, her sense of humor, her empathy--shines through and makes her writing so immediate and fulfilling to the reader (well, at least this reader!). Her (re)telling of these stories is fresh and necessary and delightful. -Candice