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Join a hands-on logo design workshop, covering topics like logo concept development, color selection, and impactful shapes. No design experience required!
Alana Ladson is an artist from New Haven who loves to read, write, play video games, and draw. She creates both digital art and traditional paintings on canvas and paper. She has a passion for community building and artistry. Her experience is rooted in the arts, education, and advocacy– she loves working with youth, making art, and sharing what her students call “sage wisdom”. Alana particularly loves to draw women of color, nature, and mythical creatures. Additionally, she has a small business ‘Alana Ladson Art’ selling pins, stickers, and art prints. You can find her work at alanaladsonart.com.
Vicky Blume is a New Haven artist and web designer. This is her eighth autumn in the city, after moving here to study psychology and art at Yale. Since then, Blume has lit up community engagement for Artspace and Creative Arts Workshop. This August, she joined Fractured Atlas, a non-profit tech company providing business tools for artists. In her artistic practice, Blume builds interactive websites, animations, and installations that offer calming and consensual alternatives to the Attention Economy.
AGE GROUP: | Adults (18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Ives Squared | Education and Lifelong Learning | Digital Learning and Technology | Careers and Job Skills |
TAGS: | Small Business | Non-Profits | Makerspace | Makers | Ives Squared | Entrepreneurs | Design | Creatives | Creative-in-Residence |
The Ives Main Library, designed by renowned architect, Cass Gilbert in 1911, is a cornerstone of the historic New Haven Green. The facility is a community treasure and features unique design details, including several WPA-era murals. Ives is open 54 hours a week, Monday-Saturday, and houses major public service departments for children and teens as well as adult reference, a computer tech center and Ives Squared, a newly renovated space for innovation and entrepreneurship.
2019 Recipient of National Medal for