A World of Stories
Flourishing
Hallway Mural
Rivers, Roads, Remains
Together
Candy Carmen Jude
Dissociation
Don't Blame Me, This is All I Can Remember
River
Take the Call
A World of Stories
Artist: Ilaamen Pelshaw
Construction: Acrylic Diptych
Location: 1st Floor
Installed: 2023
“A World of Stories” by Ilaamen Pelshaw consists of two acrylic-on-canvas panels featuring illustrations of storybook characters, and a wooden bookmark dividing the two.
Flourishing
Artist: Ilaamen Pelshaw
Construction: Acrylic Diptych
Location: 1st Floor
Installed: 2023
“Flourishing,” features birds and open books, illustrating how the mind flourishes through reading.
Hallway Mural
Artist: Arbor Street Studios
Construction: Mural
Location: 1st Floor Hallway
Installed: 2023
Rivers, Roads, Remains
Artists: Lori Elliott-Bartle, Marcia Joffe-Bouska and Tom Quest
Construction: Mixed Media Piece of Ceramic, Mosaic, Collage, Found Objects, Oil Colors and Beeswax on a Birch Support
Location: 1st Floor Ramp
Installed: 2023
"Rivers, Roads, Remains" by collaborative artists Lori Elliott-Bartle, Marcia Joffe-Bouska and Tom Quest consists of three mixed-media panels featuring ceramic, glass mosaic, collage, found objects, oil colors and beeswax. This piece and “River” by the group explores ideas related to place, memory and connection around the Missouri River, and examines connections between nature and manufactured structures.”
Together
Artist: Weston Thomson
Construction: ⅛” plasma-cut steel with a multicolor patina
Location: 1st Floor
Installed: 2023
“Together” by Weston Thomson is a large piece of ⅛” plasma-cut steel with a multicolor patina which captures a group of friendly faces. Inspired by the fast, gestural work of street art, the work is composed of a single, continuous contour line which emphasizes the notion that we are all connected.
Candy Carmen Jude
Artist: Jada Messick
Construction: Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas
Location: 2nd Floor
Installed: 2023
“Candy Carmen Jude” is part of a series of paintings by Jada Messick that is on display at the Downtown Library Branch. Messick is an abstract artist from Omaha, NE and according to her, her work “combines color, pattern, form, and textures to create movement in the imagery, allowing the viewers’ mind to wander and explore.”
Dissociation
Artist: Jada Messick
Construction: Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas
Location: 2nd Floor
Installed: 2023
“Dissociation” is part of a series of paintings by Jada Messick that is on display at the Downtown Library Branch.
Don't Blame Me, This is All I Can Remember
Artist: Jada Messick Construction: Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas
Location: 2nd Floor
Installed: 2023
“Don’t Blame Me, This is All I Can Remember” is also part of the series of paintings by Jada Messick displayed at the Downtown Library Branch in 2023.
River
Artists: Lori Elliott-Bartle, Marcia Joffe-Bouska and Tom Quest
Construction: Mixed Media Piece of Ceramic, Mosaic, Collage, Found objects, Oil Colors and Beeswax on a Birch Support
Location: 2nd Floor
Installed: 2023
“River” by collaborative artists Lori Elliott-Bartle, Marcia Joffe-Bouska and Tom Quest consists of five vignettes.
Take the Call
Artist: Ilaamen Pelshaw
Construction: Acrylic Diptych
Location: 2nd Floor
Installed: 2023
“Take the Call,” also by Pelshaw, is a geometric graphic painting that incorporates outlines of multiple modes of communication (from a cell phone to a pair of tin cans connected by a cord) along with two faces.