Light Painting is a fun, creative way to play with photography. Recently, we hosted a light painting class for teens. They were able to learn a little about the techniques and settings that are used to create these photographs. After…
One of the goals of ShortHaus Cinema is to spotlight lesser-known and marginalized directors. So for Black History Month, we chose to feature an integral part of film history, the first Black woman director to get a feature debut, Julie…
ShortHaus Cinema has featured many artists-turned-directors, but January’s featured director, Lutz Dammbeck, has remained firmly in the artist camp. His artistic practice includes drawing, painting, animation, collage, conceptual art, installations, research and documentary filmmaking. He is certainly the most avant-garde…
Your holiday family photos are ready for you to download! Thank you to all the families who participated. We loved seeing all of your smiling faces and being a part of your holiday traditions. This is one of our favorite…
ShortHaus’s next featured director is Jim Henson, a playfully prolific artist who modernized and revolutionized puppetry by adapting the centuries-old medium for television. (Fun fact: some scholars trace the origin of puppets to India 4000 years ago, where the main…
ShortHaus Cinema is yet again featuring an artist-turned-director. Although we initially chose Ridley Scott for November because his new feature, Napoleon, will be coming out later in the month, he is also well-known for his artistic storyboards known as Ridleygrams….
Fundamentals of Horror ShortHaus Cinema‘s next featured director is the prolific Ridley Scott. And, seeing as it’s the spookiest month of the year, we simply must talk about his most frightening film: Alien (1979). I’d also like to revisit this…
Crafting events have consistently been among the most popular activities hosted by the library. They have fostered a sense of community and have been equally enjoyed by both adults and children. However, crafting goes beyond mere paper gluing or model…
ShortHaus Featured Director: Alison Maclean For our next director in our unintended series on artists-turned-directors, we have… Alison Maclean! This Canadian-born, New Zealand film director originally went to the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland to…
With the leaves changing color and the season changing to fall, we start getting into the mood for Halloween. Few monsters have collectively captured the imagination as the zombie. After all, in the 2010s, The Walking Dead became a popular…