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| Oodles of Doodles by Catherine Alred is the artwork currently on display at CPL |
(look below the January 30th blog to see more of Catherine's work.)
Monday, February 27, 2017
SIGN up to attend the Doodle class
(look below the January 30th blog to see more of Catherine's work.)
ACT NOW!
Protect the future of the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the New Mexico Humanities Council
The
Trump Administration's Office of Management and Budget has recommended
elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. The combined savings from these drastic measures would be
0.02% of federal spending (read more).
NMHC receives core funding from the NEH and is essential in enabling us
to provide a broad spectrum of outstanding public humanities
programming throughout the state. These programs are tailored to local
and regional interests and reach geographical areas and groups that
would otherwise not have access to such programs.
A
preliminary federal budget is expected to be released in March. It is
critical that you voice your support for the preservation of the NEH and
associated state humanities councils today.
TAKE ACTION!
- CALL your congressional delegation. Phone calls have the greatest impact. Here are some tips:
- Contact representatives for your district only and both senators
- Tell them what community you are in
- Keep it short and to the point
- Tell a personal story about the impact of NMHC programming
- Include a thank you to those who have demonstrated support for NEH (Senator Udall recently signed a letter of support).
- WRITE to your representatives. Again, tell a story about how an NMHC program has enriched a person, an organization or a community and what would be lost without access to it.
- SHARE this effort with friends, on social media and with us. We want to know about the action you're taking.
- DONATE to the NMHC. Your financial support enables us to continue to provide programming that enriches individual lives and strengthen community.
Your support not only influences outcomes in New Mexico but for all 56 state humanities councils benefiting 5,300 communities and 43 million people nation-wide. Thank you for standing with us.
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The
arts and sciences essential to the prosperity of the state and to the
ornament and happiness of human life have a primary claim to the
encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.
George Washington (1732-1799), First United States President
Spring back to Spring/Summer library hours
Library closes at 6 pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays again starting on Tuesday, Feb. 28th.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
old literature for sale
The library has the following for sale - $1 each.
5- 1930 Literary Digest Magazines
Approximately 100 - 1913-1929 National Geographic Magazines SOLD! as of 2/27
don't forget!
THIS SATURDAY-March4th: $5 for a bag of BOOKS!
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Orphan Train rides into town - First Friday - March 3 at 7pm
Riders on the Orphan Train - Child Emigrants to New Mexico
is coming to the Capitan Public Library for the First Friday Program on
March 3 at 7 pm. Funded by the New Mexico Humanities Council, this program
is the official touring outreach program from The National Orphan Train Complex
Museum and Research Center in Concordia, Kansas.
The subject of the Orphan Trains is an eleventh hour situation as the last few survivors
of the 250,000 orphans and unwanted children that were “placed out” are now reaching
the end of their lives. Of particular interest to the New Mexico audience will be the
discovery of the part this state played in the “placing out” movement. In 1904, several
children came to Clayton and Des Moines from the New York Foundling Hospital and
additional placements occurred in San Jon soon after. We are hoping to discover new
stories of Riders who came to New Mexico and want to especially invite any
descendants to the presentation to share family stories.
This historical presentation is designed to inform, entertain, and move audiences of all origins and ages. It combines storytelling, music, video with archival photographs and contemporary interviews of survivors, and informal discussion with a question and answer period to bring awareness about this little-known chapter of the largest child
migration in history.
In 1853, Methodist minister Charles Loring Brace was shocked at the number
of homeless children he found in the streets of New York. He founded The Children’s
Aid Society that year and between 1854 and 1929 sent out over 250,000 orphans
and “surrendered” children of single parents. These children found homes in every
state in the continental United States.
Beginning in 1863, the Sisters of Charity of the New York Foundling Hospital
also sent out children, specifically to Catholic families that requested them
through their local priest. Until a PBS documentary in 1995, this subject was
largely unknown and is still not included in history books.
This presentation was originally created by novelist/humanities scholar Alison Moore
and musician/ producer Phil Lancaster as an outreach program for the Orphan
Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. The two are now based in Austin, TX,
and have been touring the U.S. since 1998; this is their fourth tour
New Mexico for presentations in museums and libraries.
Alison Moore's historical novel, Riders on the Orphan Train , written with
a fellowship from The National Endowments for the Arts will be
available for purchase at the March 3 presentation.
In 2012, Moore and Lancaster were awarded the Charles Loring
Brace Award for their contributions to raising awareness
about the Orphan Train movement.
After the program, refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Snowy Sunday quilt day at the library
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| Lynn Jeffery - quilt made for her after all of her quilts burned in a house fire. |
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| Mary English's butterfly applique quilt |
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| Molly Masen's quilt. Wanda helping by holding. |
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| Many quilts came out on Feb 12 program with Marlene Siepel |
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| Donna Clarke shows her mother's quilt |
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| Donna's mother - Diane examines other quilts |
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| Nature scenes embroidery on quilt |
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| Learned that you should always bring a picture of the quilt maker. |
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| George Shaffers's heritage quilt. |
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| Marlene Siepel, shows an "ugly" utility quilt that she saved from dirt & mildew by washing with Woolite in a tub using her feet to squish out the dirt, then dried by spreading it out on a sheet in the yard (but not too long in the sun!) Never machine wash or dry clean a heritage quilt because the harsh treatment could break the threads. Assisting in holding up quilts is tall Paul Durham. |
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| Pat Durham won the door prize quilt hand pieced by former residents of the Sunny Quilters at Sunshine Haven nursing home in Lordsburg, NM, and machine quilted by volunteers. |
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Creative Aging
Chief Hooker of the Ruidoso Police is
our speaker for Creative Aging Monthly Meeting on
Friday February17, at 10:00am ENMU #115. All are welcome.
Program Schedule for rest of 2017
First Fridays 7pm: Social Sundays 2pm:
| Mar 4th | Orphan Train | Mar-12 | Doodling with Catherine Alred - doodle class | |||||
| April 7 | Underground ranger Douglas Thompson | April 23 | Attracting Mason Bees to your garden w/ Imelda Horne | |||||
| May 6th | Plant Sale on a Saturday 8 am | Hands on - make a beehive | ||||||
| Jun-02 | Chautauqua:Billie Holiday (to be confirmed) | |||||||
| July 4th | HOT DOG SALE | Summer-TBA | David Higgins History of Money 90 min presentation | |||||
| Jul-07 | Open date | |||||||
| Aug4 | Chautauqua: Dale Evans - Kay Kuhlmann | |||||||
| Sept 1 | Open date | |||||||
| Oct-06 | Donna Birchell - Wicked Women of NM | |||||||
| Nov 03 | Hopefuls-music | |||||||
| Dec 2 | HOLIDAY BAZAAR on a Saturday 8am |
Friday, February 10, 2017
Monday, February 6, 2017
BookTalkers - Feb 12 @ 3pm
Join us at the library
for our second Sunday
afternoon BookTalkers
program. Refreshments
afterwards.
On Sunday, Feb 12,at 3 pm,
Marlene Siepel, will tell us
of the inception of an idea
that grew into a 5-year
display of historical quilts and
then into an actual book.
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| Marlene Siepel |
Marlene Siepel was the library director at the Lordsburg Hidalgo Library in 2007
when the idea that a quilt show would be an excellent way to show pioneer women's contribution to the settling and homesteading of Hidalgo County..
Volunteers worked on the getting people to show their quilts and interviewed the
quilt owners, or if possible, the quilt maker. The original requirement was that the
quilter had a family member connection to a resident of Hidalgo County.
Hand-sewn quilts of original homesteaders to Hidalgo County came out of cedar chests.
Siepel explains in a Hidalgo County Herald article,
"Many of the women led homesteader lives in the unsettled territory or
early statehood days of Southwest New Mexico. A number of women
continued quilting through the Great Depression and WorldWar II. Their biographical histories give a picturesque description of the lives
they led and offers genealogical information for their families. Some
women were able to give their own first account information for the biographies. All information is authentic and an important part
of New Mexico History."
The 2-day quilt show continued to happen for five years,
2007 to 2012, with a total of 350 quilts & hand-work pieces displayed over the years. Biographies of each quilter was shown with the display. The quilts became a genealogical journey for Hidalgo County.
Ladies of the "Boot Heel" - Their Stories with Quilts highlights 107 quilts pictures with
biographies of their makers. Books will be for sale with proceeds going to the Friends
of the Lordsburg Hidalgo Library.
The Heritage Quilt show and the followup book came about through a cooperative
effort of many individual volunteers, the community & organizations, including:
- The Lordsburg Hidalgo Library,
- Lordsburg Hidalgo Chamber of Commerce,
- Lordsburg Hidalgo County Museum,
- Lordsburg County Herald,
- NMSU Hidalgo County Extensive Service,
- City of Lordsburg, Hidalgo County,
- and Hidalgo County Tourism.
This small spark of an idea to give women pioneers a place in at annual community
event grew because community groups and individuals were able to join hands and
make it happen. Yet the best outcome of the effort was important
oral history was documented and saved for eternity.
Siepel was the library director at Lordsburg Hidalgo Library for 27 years.
Her husband, Charlie, is Professor Emeritus for the N M Cooperative
Extension Service at NMSU. He retired as the Southwest District
Director for the NM Cooperative Extension Service when they moved
Lincoln County in 2014. Siepel currently teaches line dance at the
Capitan Senior Center & Canaan Trail Baptist Church.
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| If you have a heritage hand-sewn quilt, bring it to
Capitan Public Library Booktalkers program on Sunday, Feb 12, at 3pm.
The audience will have their own brief journey through quilts
to pay tribute to our mothers, grandmothers,
aunts and sisters who passed down family quilts to us! The quilt tells
the story. (Shown quilts were made by Sharon Stewart's maternal grandmother from Fairy/Cransfil Gap, TX) |
Spiri program of most interest on Feb 3
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| Jim Spiri kept Capitan Public Library audience spellbound with his story of following his life goal to be an on-the-ground war photojournalist. Spiri continues his journalistic endeavors by publishing a new local newspaper, Lincoln County Leader. jimspiri@gmail.com |
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| Captive audience at Spri program last Friday. They really do look like captives between bookshelves on either side! |
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017
Oodles of Doodles - Catherine Alred
Oodles of Doodles by Catherine Alred. Artwork is for sale, as well as bookmarks and packaged note cards with pens.
Join us Sunday afternoon, March 12 at 2 pm for a doodle class with Catherine. She'll bring the supplies, we just need to bring our creativity. Refreshments served afterwards. We'll take that time to admire each others' doodles.
Ruidoso resident, Catherine Alred, has been doodling as far back as she can
remember. As a child she always was
coloring and drawing. Recalling one of her
earliest works, she described a piece she created
when she was 10 years old. “I just decided to try to
doodle an actual ‘thing’ and spent hours and
hours drawing a large abstract bird. It’s very interesting to study it now and realize how much my doodling has evolved over the decades."
Catherine’s doodles, however, are not quite the kind of doodles one would
expect when observing someone idly drawing. Catherine’s doodles are
very detailed and intricate. She further illustrates by saying, “My doodles are just a result of me taking a pen or pencil for a walk.
I don’t plan the design; it just evolves.”
People seeing her work for the first time are
often in disbelief and ask,
“Did you really do that?”
The fanciful lines, dots, and curls are executed
in such precision that people often wonder if a computer produced them.
The vast majority of her work is free form.
“Just doodling in a random, free form way is my
favorite way of doodling, but I’ve also doodled
initials, butterflies, paisleys, initials, birds, etc.”
Although she always keeps a sketchpad nearby, at times no piece of paper
is safe from her pen. Her doodling can be found on magazine pages,
calendars, concert programs, and even grocery lists. Noting that she
often cannot restrain herself from picking up a pen and starting a new piece, she added, “Doodling is very relaxing to me. I go into a calm,
meditative state.”
Doodling is more than just an artistic endeavor.
“It helps me concentrate.
I’ve always doodled in meetings and lectures.
Doodling helps me be a good listener.”
She noted the findings of a British psychologist:
“Doodling or scribbling during meetings or class can improve content
memory by 29%.”
“That definitely applies to me. Doodles are in the margins
of practically every set of class notes I ever took in college. Give me a handout or an
agenda at a meeting and I will doodle all over it.”
She has even incorporated her doodles into her love of working with textiles. "I enlarged one of my doodles and transferred it to fabric. Using contrasting fabrics, beads, and metallic threads, I embroidered the doodle on a throw pillow."
She particularly enjoys sharing her work with others. "I've incorporated my doodles into all sorts of items: bookmarks, note cards, decoupage boxes, framed pieces, even mugs and coasters," she says.
After graduating from Angelo State University with an English major
and art minor, Catherine earned a master’s degree in educational administration
from Sul Ross University. She pursued her career in education
in West Texas prior to moving to Ruidoso in 2010 with her husband,
Dr. Clayton Alred, ENMU-Ruidoso president.
Her emphasis on art has always been prominent in her positions.
“I found it such a pleasure to actually teach the art of doodling to a large group of kindergarten children. It was amazing to see how young children quickly caught on and produced amazing drawings.”
“I found it such a pleasure to actually teach the art of doodling to a large group of kindergarten children. It was amazing to see how young children quickly caught on and produced amazing drawings.”
(the above article is paraphrased from a 2012 article in the Ruidoso News)
Sunni Brown, author of The Doodle Revolution, writes, "Our culture is so intensely focused on verbal communications, that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling. Doodling has a profound impact on the way that we can process information and the way that we can solve problems." Doodling facilitates learning.
An article published in TIME magazine some years ago lauded the value of doodling. It recalled an experiment in which forty individuals were asked to listen to a monologue. The speaker talked about a number of seemingly random things, but included lists of places and names. Half of the study participants were asked to doodle as they listened. The other half simply listened. Afterward, participants were asked to recall the names and places named in the recording. The results? The doodlers remembered almost 30 percent more of the requested information than the non-doodlers did.
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