The Chester County Library Center has announced that Megan Raab Greenholt for the inaugural Maker-in-Residence program this spring.

Selected through an open call conducted earlier this year, Raab Greenholt is a multi-disciplinary artist that explores printmaking, textiles, collage, painting, and sculpture. As a practicing artist and educator, discovery is integral to her practice as she uses a process-oriented approach to facilitate an intuitive response to materials as a means to encourage community engagement and wonder. Raab Greenholt currently maintains an active studio practice in Elverson. 

We invite you to learn about natural dyes and observe her current work in progress using naturally dyed materials during open studio hours at the Exton and Henrietta Hankin Library branches that include 2 hours of hands-on maker experience (ages 6+) to create your own embroidered textile collage. Open studio hours will be held weekly beginning March 28 and run through June 28. 

In addition to her open studio hours, Raab Greenholt will be conducting four workshops for people ages 16 and older at the Chester County Library Center and two workshops designed for a parent/guardian and child (age 8+) experience. The workshops will celebrate Chester County’s Juneteenth theme, “Journeying Towards Freedom” by learning about the history of indigo in our country and its use in the creative practices of contemporary African American artists.  

This program is supported by the generosity of the Friends of the Chester County Library. For more information about the CCL Friends please visit Friends of the Chester County Library.

To find out more or to register for the workshops, please visit the events page.  For additional information, please contact Mary Gazdik, Library Director at mgazdik@ccls.org. 

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