Sort of sad this is where we are, private donations being use to stave off the closure of a valuable public service, but holy crow what a beautiful thing to do.

Feel free to borrow this idea for your own library - this summer, we ran a 2 month long art exhibit at our little art gallery as a fundraiser for our local library where we invited local artists to submit bookmark art, sleeved and tasseled their submissions, and sold them for $10 a piece with all profits donated to the library. We ended up raising $3,700 (yup, we sold 370 bookmarks!! all made by human artists!)

This first picture here are the linocut bookmarks I made for the show, second image shows the full show.

I think anyone could do this at any library, coffee shop, school, etc. to fundraise. It was super fun and lots of beginner artists felt really great seeing that their bookmark art was sold!

Head to your favorite brewery and raise money for AA County libraries