Make pretty succulents out of paper!

Since their publication in the first half of the twentieth century, the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold millions of copies. The television show “Little House on the Prairie” has thrilled viewers for fifty years. Based on his eight years of research, John J. Fry will discuss how Laura’s down-to-earth faith and Christian morality influenced her life and work. A Prairie Faith, Fry's biography of Wilder, was published this year by Eerdmans publishers.

AADL welcomes local Drag Kings for a night of performance, featuring a panel discussion about the art form, drag king culture, and queer celebration.

Musk is one of the first ingredients people think of when it comes to animalic ingredients used in perfumery (aka “animalics”). Musks, however, are also found in essential oils extracted from plants, many of which can be turned in perfume absolutes (concentrates) by reducing tinctures by exposure to air for a specified period of time.

Join us for the opening reception of Family Foundations: Four Stories of Black Washtenaw County Community Building, 1850 to 1950, on display from Saturday June 8, to Sunday July 28 in the Downtown Library 3rd floor exhibit space.

Desai's presentation explores U.S. media representations of the Third World, the global bloc of decolonizing nations in Asia and Africa during the Cold War, through the development of the mid-century music genre known as Exotica. Emerging after the Second World War, Exotica was a popular form of ersatz “world music” which, he argues, responded to anxieties around racial integration and the decolonizing world.

Nate Powell showcases different approaches to fiction and nonfiction in comics storytelling to tackle common themes of myth-making, memory, freedom, and the power of expression in the new graphic novels Fall Through and Lies My Teacher Told Me.  

The Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo (AACME) is back and you're invited! Come celebrate the maker movement that ranges from traditional technologies like weaving all the way to our future in robotics! Our keynote speaker this year is designer, artist, and maker Sophy Wong, who will be speaking on the intersection of technology and clothing design. Enjoy hands-on demos from local maker spaces, learn about ham radio, solder an LED badge, see an upholstery demonstration, use our heat press, and so much more!

Meghan Navoy from Rosemarine Textiles will guide this workshop, demonstrating how to use wax batik sticks to draw a pattern on a cotton bandana, and then dip the piece into one of three natural dye baths to reveal the pattern.

Meghan Navoy from Rosemarine Textiles will guide this workshop, demonstrating how to use stamps and mordant paste to block print patterns onto cotton tote bags or bandanas. Participants will then immerse their pieces in dye baths to reveal the designs.