Teen Creativity - We have it at the New River Library!
Our teens designed and painted this guitar last summer to support the "Battle of the Bands" project. Our next project is decorating two new wooden chairs for the Teen area.  Come join us on Thursday, October 8th at 6:30pm as we pick a theme and decorate the chairs.  Questions?  Call us at (813) 788-6375.

Are you an aspiring artist that could use $1,000 cash? The Woot! t-shirt website http://shirt.woot.com has a weekly (yes, every week) contest to design an original t-shirt based on a theme and a set of rules. Any mode of 2-D art is accepted accept for photographs, including hand-drawn & scanned, computer designed, and digital sketching.

A new theme is posted by Woot! every Friday at noon. You just have to create an account and post your design any time after 12pm. You can post as many as you like. The world then gets to vote on all the submitted designs all week until Thursday at noon. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the winning shirts are sold online, one per day, and the winning designers each get $1,000. So, if you don't win the first time, try again. You can use pretty much any method to get people to the site to vote for your shirt designs.

Check out the link above for the main site. For the full list of all their rules and an FAQ on everything else about the site, check out http://shirt.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx

TEENS! Help us finish painting the guitar we started last week. We'll be painting a zebra design on the back. One of our teens came up with this zebra design, and there is a hidden zebra in the painting. Oh, don't forget about the altered book. We've already cut out a box, from pages of the book. You can paint and finish the box, and there will be trinkets and found art available so you can design multiple pages.

Who: All Teens, grades 6 - 12.
Who Else Will Be Here: Paul Stonebridge
What: Altered Expressions
Where: Hugh Embry library
When: June 24th.
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.