{"id":1589,"date":"2013-04-10T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:02","slug":"art-from-library-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2013\/04\/10\/art-from-library-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"art from library cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.nildram.co.uk\/~simmers\/111spred.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1596\" alt=\"corset\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/corset1.jpg?w=192\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/corset1.jpg 461w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/corset1-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryasincubatorproject.org\/?p=9761\">Library Card Project<\/a> at the American Craft Council has yielded some lovely things, but I had to take down the image I linked to them because they don&#8217;t allow re-posting of images. They do allow me to link, so I&#8217;ve linked from their name.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time artists have used library materials, of course &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.nildram.co.uk\/~simmers\/111spred.htm\">Giselle Restrepo<\/a> has worked with library check-out cards (see image at left), and <a href=\"http:\/\/alicewalsh.com\/\">Alice Walsh<\/a> uses library cards in her book work, to name just a couple of other practitioners. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenkirkpoetry.blogspot.com\/\">Kathleen Kirk<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library Card Project at the American Craft Council has yielded some lovely things, but I had to take down the image I linked to them because they don&#8217;t allow re-posting of images. They do allow me to link, so I&#8217;ve linked from their name. This isn&#8217;t the first time artists have used library materials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}