Get ready for Valentine's Day by making three love-themed cards featuring whimsical animals. There will be time and materials for you to add your own special touches, too.
Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops since 2001. Hisbroadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such prestigious institutions as the Newberry Library, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. Sheehy’s pop-up book Welcome to the Neighborwood was published in 2015 and his pop-up book Beyond the Sixth Extinction was published in October 2018; both through Candlewick, and both winning numerous awards. He holds an MFA in the Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Visit him at shawnsheehy.com.
Sponsored in part by Artists Book House
The Robert Crown Branch Library, located inside the Robert Crown Community Center, was opened in early 2020 to extend library services out into walking distance of some of Evanston's most diverse and historically underserved neighborhoods. The branch features a computer bar, laptop loaning, study rooms and a community meeting room, an expanded Spanish-language collection and bilingual staff, an outdoor reading garden, and dozens of programs each month for children, teens and adults.