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Events Calendar

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Monday, September 16, 2024

Library
Time Items
All day
 
2pm
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Personal Archiving Lab: Drop-In Tutorials

Personal Archiving Lab: Drop-In Tutorials

Study Room 209
Monday, Sep 16, 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

The Personal Archiving Lab at Central Library is a collection of equipment that can be used to digitize at-risk analog materials like home movies video tapes audio cassettes photographs and more. Stop by the Central Library on Mondays, 2-4pm (Room 209) for a tutorial on how to use the library's Personal Archiving Lab. Tutorial duration is approximately 20-30 minutes. The instructor may not be able to accommodate those who arrive after 3:40pm.

Following the tutorial, you will be able to make an appointment during library hours to use the equipment - up to 3 hours per day - for your personal archiving project.

The Personal Archiving Lab supports the following formats: VHS and VHS-C tapes DVDs (not BluRay); audio cassettes; MiniDV and Hi-8 tapes; photographs (including negatives and slides) and other paper-based documents. It does not support 8 or 16mm reel-to-reel film or audio tape.

Patrons who use the lab must bring some form of external storage — a portable hard drive, or a thumb drive — on which digital files can be stored.

Call 608-266-6350 for more information.

Study Room 209
 
6pm
6:00pm to 8:00pm
How to Draw a Tattoo Flash Sheet with Ash Armenta

How to Draw a Tattoo Flash Sheet with Ash Armenta

*Offsite
Monday, Sep 16, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

** Please note that this workshop takes place at Thurber Park (3325 Thurber Ave, Madison, WI 53714) **

Join Ash Armenta as they wrap up their artist residency at Thurber Park and try out a brand new workshop with the community.

Learn how to draw your own tattoo flash sheet with a local Madison tattoo artist! In this free workshop you will learn a bit about the history of American traditional tattoo designs, the art of composing, drawing, and painting your designs, and how you can put together your very own flash sheet. 

All reference material, photocopies, easy-to-trace designs, tracing paper, pens, and watercolors will be provided. This workshop is for any adult who enjoys tattoo artwork and drawing, registration is required and limited to 8 participants. 
 

*Offsite