Visit select DC Public Library locations to explore a new children's exhibit, featuring kiosks with illustrations by Washington, D.C.-based illustrator Trap Bob. The kiosks are part of the Building Stories exhibit currently on view at the National Building Museum. Building Stories is the first national exhibition to call attention to the built environment’s role as an important, and often overlooked, character in children’s literature. By activating these stories and their built worlds, and the early foundations for how we begin to understand our surroundings, Building Stories allows visitors to investigate the role the built environment plays in our own lives and communities—and how we can be agents of change for its more sustainable, equitable future.
Library Locations
Building Stories kiosks are located at six DC Public Library locations, including:
- Bellevue/William O. Lockridge Library
- Capitol View Library
- Chevy Chase Library
- Palisades Library
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
- Shepherd Park/Juanita E. Thornton Library
Image credit: DC Public Libraries Building Stories kiosk art, Courtesy Trap Bob.
About Building Stories at the National Building Museum
Curated by the nation’s leading expert on children’s literature, Leonard Marcus, the exhibition encourages visitors to interact with familiar classics and new favorites through hands-on activities, media installations, sketching, reading, and building stories of their own. Award-winning author/illustrators David Macaulay and Oliver Jeffers have collaborated on this exhibition to create original environments that will offer insight into their creative processes and engage visitors to better understand the worlds created in books and encourage their role in making a better world.
About the artist:
Read an interview with Trap Bob about her illustrations for the DC Public Library Building Stories kiosks.
Learn more about the artist on her website.
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