Local Color Gallery is a year round fine art gallery in Belfast, Maine, located downtown at 135 High Street. A cooperative, its mission is to offer local artists opportunities to show and sell their work, while supporting the local arts community. It features 15 artists working in a wide variety of mediums. Ten are on display at the Liberty Library for the month of December. All work displayed is for sale.

Above: Sally Brophy: Whale Constellation LImited Edition Giclee 13”x13” Click to enlarge.

Participating artists include:

• Sally Brophy – Printmaking and Paintings
• Sandi Cirillo – Printmaking and Fiber Art
• Judy Graebert – Acrylic Paintings
• Conny Hatch – Sculptures from Found Objects
• Janake Howard – Acrylic Paintings
• Debbie Mitchell – Oil Paintings
• MF Morison – Printmaking and Watercolor Paintings
• Suzanne Roberts – Oil Paintings and Collage
• Betty Schopmeyer – Oil Paintings
• Peter Walls – Mixed Media Paintings

To learn more about Local Color Gallery and its artists visit their website at localcolorgallerymaine.com

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Session added* – Mar. 27 – Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. Contact Barbara Worcester if you want to join this discussion so we can order enough books.
*Please note this is not part of the series provided by the Maine Humanities Council. The library is doing this one independently.

Let’s Talk About It is a group for people who want to talk about books. The books and facilitator, John Zavodny, will be provided by the Maine Humanities Council in collaboration with the Maine State Library. We will meet Wednesdays for five sessions. All sessions will begin at 7:00pm at the library for approximately 90 minutes.

Exploring Human Boundaries: Literary Perspectives on Health Care Providers and Their Patients. A disease or a sick person? Health care professionals do not always focus on what is most important to the patient and the patient’s family. These classic 20th-century accounts of illness, death, and dying dramatically illuminate these complex issues.

• Sep. 26 – The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• Oct. 24 – The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Nov. 28 – The Plague by Albert Camus
• Jan. 23 – The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• Feb. 27 – W;t by Margaret Edson
• Mar. 27 – Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 

For more information about the books and the program.

Books for those who signed-up are available. Stop by the library to pick them up. There are a few extra. If you want to participate in the book discussion, contact bworcester@liberty.lib.me.us.

It is that time of year to get those knitting needles clicking and those crochet hooks looping so we may again provide warm hands and heads around our community.  We are collecting children’s mittens (small sizes are most needed) for the Walker School and small sized mittens and hats for  WaldoCAP Headstart.  Our adult hats and cowls go to the Belfast Soup Kitchen and to the TRIAD program which distributes warm winter clothing to our senior citizens in need. There is free yarn for this project in the library along with a basket for the finished mittens, hats, and cowls.  We thank you so much for your continued support!

Simple 2-needle mittens: 3-4 yrs,  4-6 yrs, & 6-8 yrs.
A simple pattern for hats can be found here. Another Stockinette Watch cap pattern.

We also collect yarn and needles for Jen Gunderman who delivers these to organizations assisting New Mainers transitioning to life in Maine. They in turn make hats and mittens for other refugees who are in camps awaiting permission to be allowed into other countries to begin making new lives for themselves and their families.

Several knitters are getting together informally to knit and chat on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 at the library. Anyone is welcome to join them.