A "quiet" program featuring Stories, Puppets, Finger Plays, and Songs for you and your child to enjoy together. This week's theme is "Colors."

We will do a craft each Tuesday between Mouse and Lion Story Time. This week's theme is "Colors."

A program geared toward the little ones age 0-2. There will be music and stories and low-key playtime. This week’s theme is "Colors."

Join us for a new Makerspace project each month. Grades 6-12.

Come celebrate Teen Read Week with Dr. Who Day. We will watch an episode of the show, eat snacks, and do crafts. This even is fee and open to the public. Ages 13-18

A "quiet" program featuring Stories, Puppets, Finger Plays, and Songs for you and your child to enjoy together. This week's theme is "Space."

Artesia Public Library presents a new crochet & knitting club. Come hang out and knit and crochet with fellow yarn lovers. Bring a project or start a new one. Please bring your own supplies. Some patterns are available. Snacks and chit chat included! Instruction will not be provided, but we can provide tips! All skill levels welcomed. Free and open to all ages.

Writers, authors, and creative souls, Zane Biebelle, Assistant Professor of English from New Mexico State University Carlsbad, will return to conduct an in-depth session on building your setting for your story. This is the second in a series of programs leading up to National Novel Writing Month. Free and open to the public. Ages 18+

A program geared toward the little ones age 0-2. There will be music and stories and low-key playtime. This week’s theme is "Space."

Bring a sack lunch and join us for a discussion of "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley. Pick up your copy of the book at the Artesia Public Library. It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”

A "quiet" program featuring Stories, Puppets, Finger Plays, and Songs for you and your child to enjoy together. This week's theme is "Chickens."

We will do a craft each Tuesday between Mouse and Lion Story Time. This week's theme is "Chickens."

A program geared toward the little ones age 0-2. There will be music and stories and low-key playtime. This week’s theme is "Chickens."

Visitors bring a small object of personal significance, and enter the mobile studio and sit for a black and white photo portrait while holding the object. The objects brought are as diverse as the participants. Objects have included car keys, photos of loved ones on cell phones, artworks, tools, books, food, toys, and vintage collectibles. Three copies of each portrait are immediately printed with the gallery’s solar-powered printer. One is given to the participant, another is pasted to the exterior of the vehicle, creating a mobile and growing exhibition throughout the span of the project. The third print will later be included in an exhibition in a regional museum or art center. At the close of the project Axle Contemporary Press will publish a book containing all of the portraits, and one image on the cover blending all off the hundreds of portraits into one face, representing the entirety of the community of participants.

ALXE Contemporary is coming to the Artesia Public Library. We will have a special photography story time. Join us for story time, then stop and have your portrait made.

Learn the basics of macrame knotting. We'll do simple projects so that you can practice for making more complicated projects at home. This program is self-paced and materials are provided at no cost to participants. Free and open to the public.

Artesia Public Library presents a new crochet & knitting club. Come hang out and knit and crochet with fellow yarn lovers. Bring a project or start a new one. Please bring your own supplies. Some patterns are available. Snacks and chit chat included! Instruction will not be provided, but we can provide tips! All skill levels welcomed. Free and open to all ages.

Walk the walk, Plot the plot with Zane Biebelle Zane Biebelle, Assistant Professor of English from New Mexico State University Carlsbad, will return to conduct writing session on plot planning for your story. Having your characters, setting, and plot planned out is necessary for success during Nanowrimo. This is the third in a series of programs leading up to National Novel Writing Month. Free and open to the public. Ages 18+

A program geared toward the little ones age 0-2. There will be music and stories and low-key playtime. This week’s theme is "Ghosts."

Join us for a new Book Discussion Group. Bring a treat to share and do book themed crafts while we discuss the book of the month. This month's selection is "The Edible Woman" by Margaret Atwood. Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds—everything! Worse yet, while Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, she really just feels … consumed. A brilliant and powerful work, rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemporary literature.

Join us for our annual living dead party--costumes encouraged! We will have traditional crafts & activities, refreshments, and lots of fun!

A "quiet" program featuring Stories, Puppets, Finger Plays, and Songs for you and your child to enjoy together. This week's theme is "Witches."

We will do a craft each Tuesday between Mouse and Lion Story Time. This week's theme is "Witches."