For the month of February, the New Glasgow Library will offer an artistic escape with a succession of art-based programs designed to inject some needed color into your winter.

Beginning with "Cinema Poetry; the Visual Sublime – a New York Minute in New Glasgow" on Thursday, February 2 at 7:00, filmmaker Eliza Fernbach will offer her interpretation on how our imagination is engaged by those 'amazing movies'. As a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France, Fernbach's education and wanderlust has taken her to locals around the globe before settling in Merigomish and Hoboken, New Jersey. As the first director to use the PAWS camera system seen in the
Matrix movies, her short films have garnered her critical acclaim and awards.

The following three Thursdays at 7:00 pm in February will see the Community Room host our Emerging Artist series, featuring artists of the NSCAD Artists in Residence for the Town of New Glasgow, as they give illustrated talks about their artistic vision and work.

Thursday February 9, 7:00 pm...
Mixed-media artist, Annalise Prodor will begin our three part series with her talk, "It's not just between you and me", which will look at her practice, how it's developed, her thoughts on contemporary art along with work she has been considering while in the residency.

Thursday February 16, 7:00 pm...
Second in the series, mixed-media artist Katie Roux will discuss" Making Sense of Making Art", examining the conceptual challenges and issues that artists face with the very idea of making art today through explaining its process and relationship to contemporary life.

Thursday February 23, 7:00 pm...
To conclude the series, ceramic artist Krissi MacKenzie will present an illustrated lecture, "Not Magic, But Process" - stories of process, taking pieces back to their origins and watching their transformations from clay to ceramic. A variety of techniques will be covered.

The library invites other artists and craftspeople of Pictou County to meet these artists for conversation and a hot beverage.