FEBRUARY 5 – MARCH 29: Colleen Swesey
We are excited to have Colleen Swesey exhibiting her many beautiful quilts in the San Carlos Branch Library's Winer Family Community Room and Art gallery from February 5 through March 29. Swesey does not belong to quilting or art guilds but considers herself an artist and prefers to work alone. Colleen made her husband a quilt as a wedding gift over 50 years ago and has been quilting ever since. Please join us at Swesey's Artist Reception to be... Continue Reading >
April 2-May 5, Katherine (Katie) Kennedy, an emerging La Mesa artist, will have on display her unique oil paintings in the Winer Family Community Room & Art Gallery of the San Carlos Branch Library. Kennedy’s works are a visual storytelling of our everyday surroundings. Join us and Katie on Saturday, April 19, noon-2, for her Artist Reception and learn more about this lovely young woman and her unique artistic expression of our modern-day society in the 2020s.
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From June 4 - June 30,on display in the Winer family Community Room & Art Gallery of the San Carlos Branch Library, Lucas Smith will be displaying his vibrant, textural works of art. Lucas has brought a fresh perspective to abstract art, blending imagination, raw materials and refined techniques to create pieces that invite viewers on a journey of exploration. Introduce yourself to his unique contemporary abstract art and meet this award-winning artist at his Artist Reception on June... 
Click on NEW ADULT TITLES November-December 2024 and NEW YOUTH TITLES November-December 2024 to see the newest books that our librarians have added to the San Carlos Branch Library collection. Let them know what titles you would like added to the library's collection.
Friday, January 24, 2-3 pm at the San Carlos Branch Library, join us to hear local Author Jennifer Coburn present her newest novel, The Girls of the Glimmer Factory, a poignant and inspiring tale of resistance, friendship and the dangers of propaganda. Coburn, author of Cradles of the Reich, spoke earlier in 2024 at the SCBL and filled the room. click Author Jennifer Coburn
Hannah is a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt, where the Nazis plan to make a propagandas film to convince the... 