Tag: Arts and Crafts

  • Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week at MCPL

    Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week at MCPL

    MCPL celebrates our very own Random Acts of Kindness Week from 7/30/23 thru 8/5/23.  Random Acts of Kindness week complements this year’s Summer Reading theme, “All Together Now” and “Kindness, Friendship, and Unity”, as well as the Montgomery County organizations we are partnering with this year — Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center and Friends of Montgomery County Animals, Manna Food Center, and Montgomery Parks Foundation.  We hope this will…

  • MoComCon 2022 Art Contest Winners

    MoComCon 2022 Art Contest Winners

    Thanks to all who joined us for January’s virtual MoComCon 2022!, our virtual celebration of all things comics, graphic novels. and fandoms. We’re proud to announce the winners of this year’s art contest. Thank you to all who entered and participated! Children Teens Adults Congratulations to all MoComCon 2022 Art Contest winners!

  • Cartooning for Adults 50+ with Artist Leila Cabib

    Cartooning for Adults 50+ with Artist Leila Cabib

    Create your own original characters, caricatures, one-panel gag cartoons, and comic strips in this five-week workshop with artist Leila Cabib, funded in part by a Wheaton Cultural Project Grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Adults 50+ can register at mcpl.events/cartooning, and experiment with pen-and-ink techniques and play around with all the…

  • The Weekend @ MCPL: April 23-25

    The Weekend @ MCPL: April 23-25

    The weekend’s loading @ the library! Join us for these events: Friday, 4/24 3pm— #AspenHill & #Olney Knitting & Crochet Club 🧶 4pm— First Chapter Friday. Every Friday we read aloud the first chapter of a book for Grades 4-6. 📚 4:30pm— TeenHub Intermediate Python Programming Workshop 💻 5pm— Virtual Take, Make & Meet, Piggy…

  • April Events for Teens at Montgomery County Public Libraries.

    April Events for Teens at Montgomery County Public Libraries.

    Whether writing, reading, arts, crafts, or coding, April is full of events for teens at MCPL! Check out the descriptions, dates and times below, and join us at the event links! Bookmark our events calendar for a daily schedule of programs for everyone! Spring Vision Board, 4/13, 5pm 4/13, 5pmA vision board is a creative…

  • MoComCon 2021 Art & Essay Contest Winners

    MoComCon 2021 Art & Essay Contest Winners

    January’s virtual MoComCon 2021 drew over 1,000 attendees to our virtual celebration of all things comics, graphic novels. and fandoms. We’re proud to announce the winners of this year’s art and essay contests. Thank you to all who entered and participated, helping to make this year’s MoComConline a success! Art Contest Winners Children Winners Honorable…

  • MoComCOnline 2021 Craft Events

    MoComCOnline 2021 Craft Events

    MoComCOnline 2021 is this Saturday, and our annual event is all-virtual this year. The lineup is amazing, and that includes two crafting opportunities. Virtual Create a Creature starts at 12:30pm, followed up with Pipe Cleaner Superhero at 1pm. Virtual Create-a-Creature Use sculpting clay to make your own fantastical creature! To pickup a prepared kit, please…

  • MoComCon 2020 Art Contest Winners!

    MoComCon 2020 Art Contest Winners!

    Winners for MoComCon’s 2020 art contest have been selected, and we’ve got lots of great art to show you. Take a look below. And don’t forget, if you’re interested in participating next year’s contest, check out our website in late 2020 for more details. And The Winners Are… Honorable Mention! If you’d like to see…

  • Organize and Create in the New Year – 2019

    How would you like to start this new year?  Do you have a bunch of things to sort out from the holidays? To help you get started, you can join us with a “neat” program on decluttering your life on January 19 at 12:00 PM. What else is new at the Kensington Park Library for…