EVENTS AT FPL
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Artist Meet and Greet, Aug. 3rdMeet and Greet with artists Patti Millette and Magda Nemlich on Friday August 3rd from 3-5 pm. at The Farmington Public Library
Their art will be on display August through September |
RAFFLE
Each artist is donating a painting to be raffled off by the Farmington Public Library at the end of August. Tickets are 1 ticket for $1 or 10 tickets for $5! The winners take home the pieces that have been donated by our talented and generous artists!
Each artist is donating a painting to be raffled off by the Farmington Public Library at the end of August. Tickets are 1 ticket for $1 or 10 tickets for $5! The winners take home the pieces that have been donated by our talented and generous artists!
About the artists
Magda Nemlich left Germany for England in 1938 with her widowed mother where they spent two years before moving to the United States. She spent her formative years in White Plains NY and upon graduation went to Syracuse University where she met her husband. After four years in the Air Force they settled in Scarsdale, NY, started a furniture store, and raised three children. They have been blessed with twelve grand children and ten great grandchildren. Magda now spends part of each year living in Farmington near her daughter and son-in-law, Jonathon and Vickie Cohen. She has had showings of her work in Westchester and is now looking forward to showing her work at the Farmington Public Library. Art has been a joy through all of her life. She started drawing as a young child and never stopped. Her inspiration comes from the beauty of nature.
Patti Millete's first foray in the public art scene was in fifth grade when her piece was selected for a summer reading program. Patti's formal education continued in the natural sciences but also intertwined with interest in botany, marine science, and later geology with scientific illustration. She produced many illustrations, including those for the University of Maine on the plants of Maine beaches and for the University of Galway, Ireland identifying various North Atlantic plankton. Throughout her lifelong educational career, she has been fortunate to work with those who were themselves artists as well as scientists, and was expecially encouraged by her UM advisor Dan Belknap to include many scientific drawings in both her master's and doctoral research in geology. In turn she has encouraged the crossover of earth science and art at Mt. Blue High School where she has taught for many years. Patti began watercolor painting in 2012 with local artist Mary Beth Morrison and later Janet Washburn as mentors. Although Patti still finds subjects for her paintings in the natural world, she has also branched into more diverse areas, and mostly paints these days just for fun.
Patti Millete's first foray in the public art scene was in fifth grade when her piece was selected for a summer reading program. Patti's formal education continued in the natural sciences but also intertwined with interest in botany, marine science, and later geology with scientific illustration. She produced many illustrations, including those for the University of Maine on the plants of Maine beaches and for the University of Galway, Ireland identifying various North Atlantic plankton. Throughout her lifelong educational career, she has been fortunate to work with those who were themselves artists as well as scientists, and was expecially encouraged by her UM advisor Dan Belknap to include many scientific drawings in both her master's and doctoral research in geology. In turn she has encouraged the crossover of earth science and art at Mt. Blue High School where she has taught for many years. Patti began watercolor painting in 2012 with local artist Mary Beth Morrison and later Janet Washburn as mentors. Although Patti still finds subjects for her paintings in the natural world, she has also branched into more diverse areas, and mostly paints these days just for fun.
October 2018 |
Chair sale and re-caning lessons!When the library was created in 1905, it was furnished with many Bentwood chairs from Austria by Thonet, the creator of the Bentwood style. All of our chairs were caned. Over the next hundred years the caning has become worn. These chairs are now available for purchase. This purchase will provide the library with funds to continue to improve and maintain the building, and will give you a piece of library history.
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