Join us for a directed drawing activity for youth with artists from the Ann Arbor Art Center! Be sure to check aadl.org for themes and projects.

Come draw with us! We'll provide everything you need to practice your drawing skills.

In this session you'll explore patterns using Micron pens and drawing pencils.

Every week we’ll cover a different topic. You’ll learn different techniques to tackle texture, chiaroscuro, and perspective, plus improve your sense of composition, lighting, and form. You'll get the chance to try out different mediums like pencil, charcoal, and pastel. All skill levels are welcome to participate.

Join us for a directed drawing activity for youth with artists from the Ann Arbor Art Center!

Be sure to check aadl.org for themes and projects.

Come draw with us! We'll provide everything you need to practice your drawing skills. In this session you'll explore patterns using Micron pens and drawing pencils.

Every week we’ll cover a different topic. You’ll learn different techniques to tackle texture, chiaroscuro, and perspective, plus improve your sense of composition, lighting, and form. You'll get the chance to try out different mediums like pencil, charcoal, and pastel. All skill levels are welcome to participate.

Come draw with us! We'll provide everything you need to practice your drawing skills.

Every week we’ll cover a different topic. You’ll learn different techniques to tackle texture, chiaroscuro, and perspective, plus improve your sense of composition, lighting, and form. You'll get the chance to try out different mediums like pencil, charcoal, and pastel. All skill levels are welcome to participate.

Join us for a directed drawing activity for youth with artists from the Ann Arbor Art Center!

Be sure to check aadl.org for themes and projects.

We are SWITCH-ing things up! It's a Mario Kart 8 Tourney for kids, teens, and adults!

Bring the family for an afternoon of fun!

We are switching things up! Inklings are back to splat more ink and claim more turf in this colorful and chaotic 4-on-4 action shooter. Are you and your four-player squad willing to get your tentacles inky for glory?!

Dive into the ink at your library!

For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit—an important landmark as well as a significant monument serving generations of Detroiters'. The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic was born out of "Discover the Wonders," an art and architectural tour of the main library that began in December 2013. Since the tour’s inception, around seven thousand people have visited this structural gem.

As the photographs in this book reveal, the Detroit Public Library stands as an enduring symbol of the public library, one of the most democratic institutions in America.

Join us as author Barbara Cohn takes us on a fascinating tour of the building and its history through discussion of this brand new book.
The design of the Detroit Public Library was Cass Gilbert’s vision for Detroit’s Early Italian Renaissance-style library. This book honors his work with a chronological and photographic timeline of the conception and building of the 1921 Woodward Avenue Library, the 1963 Cass Avenue addition, and the library as it is today. The authors had two fundamental desires: to celebrate the main library’s design using both historic and contemporary images and to share with the world the beauty and elegance of a grand building in a great city that, even through the most difficult times, has sustained one of the most magnificent neo-classical buildings in the country.

As a native of Detroit, Barbara Madgy Cohn has a passion for art, Detroit, and libraries. She has worked as a registered nurse, has a B.A. in art history, and has been a docent at the Detroit Institute of Arts since 2008. She created the "Discover the Wonders of the Detroit Public Library: An Art and Architectural Tour" and continues to serve as the director of the tour program.

This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale at the event.

NOTE: THIS EVENT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 23

Calling all wizards, nerdfighters, book lovers, and pop culture fiends!

Tonks & The Aurors return for a book blasting good time with fellow Wizard & Nerd rock bands Tianna & the Cliffhangers and LosingLara.

Dress up, nerd out and bring your friends to rock!