
Welcome to the Tilton Library virtual gallery! While the building is closed we will exhibit work by local artists and artisans here. Click images below to browse the latest exhibit. Interested in one of these artists' work or exhibiting your own work here? Email us at tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org for more information.
Part of the 2020 Summer Reading Program: "Imagine Your Story" FEE, FI, FO, FUM! Imagine the Stories that will come! We all have a story to tell... Julie, the Children's Librarian, will be mailing Summer Reading Program booklets filled with craft ideas, activities, and things to read. Email Julie with the name, address, and ages of participants (Not limited to Deerfield only) at jcavacco@cwmars.org to sign up! Follow the public Facebook page TLC-Tilton Library Children’s Room (@TiltonLibraryChildren) for updates, videos, and fun challenges
ATTENTION! Exciting new opportunity for Tilton patrons and community... Imagine All the People: A Literary & Art Journal Published by Tilton Library, Deerfield, MA As part of the 2020 Summer Reading Program: "Imagine Your Story," we want to share our own stories for others to read. This a community writing and reading project. In the midst of this challenging time, when most of us would love to be back in our wonderful library, browsing the stacks, and connecting with neighbors about our new favorite books and movies, we are instead pushed to find new ways to build literary and creative community. A Call for Entries: This summer, in service of building community, Tilton will publish a literary and creative arts journal called Imagine All the People. We will accept all submissions for publication, though we reserve the right to edit submissions. If we need to edit your piece for length or content, we will work with you. Fiction / memoir / personal essays / poetry - on a variety of topics* - should be a maximum of 3,000 words. If your full work is longer, we will publish an excerpt with a link to the full story online. We will also accept photography, drawings, prints, and photographs of paintings or other artwork. Comics! Graphic short stories! Parodies! This is a chance to be creative and share your creativity with our wonderful community. Submitted work can be newly created for this project, or previously written / made / published / exhibited. Imagine All the People will come out in print and online versions. We will provide order forms on our website once the journal is ready to print. Each person who will be mailed a FREE copy! Donations are accepted to cover printing costs. Submission details: Age group: Adults and teens (though we will consider work from older children) Submit all work to: tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org. Submit high resolution art in pdf or jpeg format. Submit writing in Word format. All work is due by June 23. Please email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org with any questions. Please include with submission a short bio and a picture of yourself. Looking forward to working together! Erika and Sadie Ross, Editors Candace Bradbury-Carlin, Creative Director Tilton Library staff *PLEASE NOTE: This journal - Imagine All the People - will be a general collection of writings and art from our community. We are also running a project which collects our community stories of life during the pandemic, called "A People's History of COVID-19 Pandemic," and those stories can be submitted to this link on our website.
Direct Link to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/763504304192279/ This wonderful book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer, was chosen and planned for the Community Read, as part of the regional Libraries in the Woods program. Due to COVID-19 shutdowns of libraries and just about every other thing in life, we were unable to run the programs planned by the 24 local libraries involved. However, a lot of people have read the book and love it and want to talk about it. So, we are doing this here in the Tilton Book to Art Group. FREE online audiobook available without any waitlist on Overdrive, through the library: https://cwmars.overdrive.com/cwmars-tilton/content/media/2854558 This event will involved a day long, come-when-you-can open Facebook discussion on June 25...and of course we highly encourage everyone to make art to accompany and express the feelings you have from the book. Any art is welcome, from doodles to paintings, photography to cake! Just take a photo of your creation and share it on the Tilton Book to Art Group page as part of our discussion. This book evokes so many wonderful images, we doubt you will leave it feeling uninspired. Talk to you and see you...and your art...then!