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

Let your imagination loose as we learn about artist Salvador Dali and make our own surrealist animal drawings.

Instruction for this popular program begins at 1pm and your artwork will take the entire class to complete!

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

Use oil pastels to practice shading a series of plump and colorful pumpkins!

Instruction for this popular program begins at 1pm and your artwork will take the entire class to complete.

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

Learn about artist Grant Wood and add an autumn twist to his fabulous paintings of sprawling fields and rural landscapes.

Instruction for this popular program begins at 1pm and your artwork will take the entire class to complete.

Come draw with us!  This week we will explore expression in portraiture with Conté crayons.  No prior experience is required. 

Instruction for this popular program begins at 3pm and your artwork will take the entire class to complete!  This program is a partnership with the Ann Arbor Art Center.

Come draw with us!   This week we will learn techniques for drawing facial features with colored pencil.  No prior experience is required. 

Instruction for this popular program begins at 3pm and your artwork will take the entire class to complete.  This program is a partnership with the Ann Arbor Art Center.

Come draw with us!   This week we will learn how to create peculiar portraits using oil pastels.  No prior experience is required. 

Instruction for this popular program begins at 3pm and your artwork will take the entire class to complete.  This program is a partnership with the Ann Arbor Art Center.

Award-winning Michigan authors Sarah Stewart and David Small return to AADL to discuss their latest picture book, This Book of Mine, a celebration of the power of reading and the ways in which books launch our adventures, give us comfort, challenge our imaginations, and offer us connection.

The Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF) is a celebration of comics, graphic novels, and the people who love them.

Elves Just Like Us: Triumph of the Wolfriders of Elfquest is a celebration of one of the longest-running independent fantasy graphic novel series in the US. Created by Wendy and Richard Pini, who are widely considered pioneers in the comic book industry, Elfquest is the ongoing tale of Cutter and the Wolfriders, a tribe of feral, forest-dwelling elves. “One of the most important works in American Fantasy,” according to the American Library Association. 

Join us for fun crafts for children age 2 to 5 years, accompanied by an adult.

This event will also be offered at the Pittsfield Branch.