Starting July 8 parking at Brookline Village will be limited due to the Pierce School construction.

Please note: The Brookline Village Library will be closed on Sundays from June 16 to September 1.

Clara’s Horse Collection and Hayes’ LEGO Collections

Check out the collections on display in the Children’s Room!

In our flat case, Clara is displaying her horse collection, which features unicorns (horses with horns), pegasi (horses with wings), and alicorns (horses with horns and wings).

In our wall case, Hayes is displaying his LEGO creations!

Stop by the Brookline Village Children’s Room to see these amazing collections! And sign up for a slot in our display cases here!

Art by Shawn Feng

I am Shawn. I’m ten years old and I go to
school at Baker. I’m a fourth grader.
Arts and crafts are my favorite subjects. I do
them either when I’m bored or when I do
fan art. I also like to run or play soccer with
my friends.

 

50 Years of Resident Artists at Puppet Showplace Theater

Puppet Showplace Theater is New England’s only dedicated puppet theater.
Each year, we present over 300 performances by professional puppet companies to audiences of all ages at our intimate Brookline Village theater.
For the last 50 years, Puppet Showplace Theater has been committed to supporting new family-oriented puppet shows and innovative puppet building by our Resident Artists!
Our first Artist-in-Residence Paul Vincent Davis created over a dozen puppet shows during his tenure, Brad Shur experimented with the interplay between puppetry and technology, and our current Resident Artist Sarah Nolen regularly tours her original works all over New England. Puppet Showplace’s Resident Artists have made an undeniable contribution to the world of puppetry.

StoryWalks®

Get moving and reading this May! We’ve partnered with the Department of Public Works Parks and Open Spaces Division with additional support from the Brookline Library Foundation to bring a StoryWalk® to five parks across Brookline.

Our StoryWalks® can be found at the Brookline Ave Playground, Dane Park, Fisher Hill Reservoir Park, Griggs Park, and Halls Pond* all month! You can also catch a pop-up StoryWalk® at Clark Park Community Day on May 11.

The StoryWalk® is on yard signs around perimeters or walking paths of parks – read along as you walk from sign to sign! You can always answer questions and complete activities that go along with the book on each sign to bring the story to life. 

Click here for a map of all StoryWalk® locations

If you visit our StoryWalk® at one or more parks, please fill out our survey to provide feedback on this project! We hope to offer more StoryWalks® in the future!

The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier Vermont.  Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. StoryWalks

*The StoryWalk® at Halls Pond will be installed on May 6, following the Halls Pond Community Day.

Art by Meena

My name is Meena . I’m a UX/UI and art manager at XC Art Center, specializing in art tutoring, digital marketing, interaction design, and graphic design. Outside of work, I’m passionate about art. For me, art is my sanctuary; it brings me so much peace, joy, and relaxation. My favorite medium is ink pen, but I also love working with watercolor, colored pencil, and creating pop-up cards and digital paintings. Thank you for dropping by and checking out my creations at Patterham Library. I also have my Instagram page, “meena_art.design,” where I update my most recent artwork. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Learning by Hand

There are many different ways to know the world.  People read and write books, they calculate and analyze data, and they have debates and conversations. The artists in this exhibit learn by doing – they make things. Artists tinker, experiment, and play with ideas – they think with their hands to learn about the materials and processes that allow them to bring new ideas into the world.  The work in this exhibit was created by students in Ceramics, Metals, Engineering, and Creative Woodworking classes in Brookline High School’s Unified Arts Building.  We are lucky to have well-equipped studios and expert instructors to mentor students as they develop their capacity for creative problem-solving.  Some of this work is purely artistic, inviting the viewer to wonder and think about larger ideas. Other works were created with both form and function in mind.