Posts by Jessica Cline

She's researching trees in New York City for a forthcoming artist book that will be a mix of photographs, text, archival images and personal vignettes.

"When I started reading [vintage postcards], it felt like reading someone’s text messages, tweets, or Instagram posts from a hundred years ago."

Perhaps some of their projects can support and inspire some of yours as well.

In this interview with Palmer, get a behind-the-scenes look at her short film "A is for Aye-Aye." Also, check out two upcoming workshops (including animation for kids) inspired by the film.

The NYPL Picture Collection has more than 12,000 subject headings, but can only choose one per image. Here's how they make the right selection among a mountain of choices.

Explore a colorful visual record of NYC and see the beginnings of the postcard phenomenon in the United States.

In June 1965, photographer Dorothea Lange wrote a letter to Picture Collection Librarian Romana Javitz saying, “It would be very fine, very fine indeed, if we could spend a Picture-Lovers afternoon together....”

Open Book Night at Mid-Manhattan Library meets on the second Friday of the month, and you’re invited!

How do artists and designers find the images they use to spark their creativity? Source material, or the physical things that become elements of inspiration for artists, designers, writers, filmmakers, students, teachers, etc., is one of the happy reasons people visit the Picture Collection.

Readers recommended books from Norway to Egypt, and Japan to the Dominican Republic. Please share your favorite international reading with us in the comments section below.

In the corner room at Mid-Manhattan, appropriately surrounded by the travel guide collection, we spent our June Open Book Night sharing books that help us escape.

Our conversation about FEELING HEALTHY at Open Book Night in April tended toward books on eating well and understanding the industry and labeling around food in America.

Our March poetry workshop discussed the New York School of poets, their influences, their style, and their writing habits as it captured the spirit of the 1950s and 60s in New York City. Taking some of these habits, we wrote poetry, trying for a slice of life or a walk down a New York street, using drips and splashes of collaged ideas.

Participants at our book social reached out to share on romantic love, artistic passion, brotherly love, love of a place, love of an idea for our February Open Book Night.

There are many takes on how to use writing and creativity to relieve stress, to find peace, or to organize one’s thoughts and increase the output of one’s ideas. Listed here are a few titles to take on the task of helping to find a sense of wellness in life.

There are a number of books in our collections to help you fine tune your fashion drawing style, but have you also seen our digital collections of original hand colored and reproduced fashion illustrations?

When you reminisce about your childhood, is it filled with summertime freedom to traverse the neighborhood without your parents always watching? Here are resources to support children learning how to commune with nature and express their independent spirit.

Readings and recommendations at the Outdoor Reading Room.

Over the last two months, we brought together a group of people to read, write, and discuss poetry in the library. The eight week workshop, The Art of Making Poems: Creation and Craft, was led by poet/instructor Hermine Meinhard, who guided with a unique and playful approach to writing.