Ester Village Library

Kid's Art Classes
2024-09-09 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Anchorage)
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week continues with paper mache masks. If you missed last week, it’s not too late to get started on yours! This class is all about making your project come to life by really shaping by adding more layers and any other
enhancements. $10 fee for supplies. Young children, please bring an adult.

Adult Art Classes
2024-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll learn batik!
Bring a white shirt or basic material will be provided. This project is adding a wax design and dyeing fabric to make a unique and lasting design to fabric. What’s nice about this method is that it lasts a long time and there are no plastic dyes that crack and feel uncomfortable to the skin. This method of designing on fabric is an old way of art
and takes lots of practice to get it right but all designs come out looking really neat and
original. You get to pick out the color dyes you want to use and use them to make your own
design. Materials: Wax, Material Linen, Dye, and Wash Tubs
$10 art fee

Seedstock and Garlic Sale
2024-09-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Kids Art Programs
2024-09-16 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we continue with paper mache. This is part 3 of the series!

Board Meeting
2024-09-18 18:00 - 20:00

Adult Art Classes
2024-09-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll learn mono printmaking!
We will be making a stencil to create a monoprint. We are going to use acrylic paint and watercolor paper to cut out stencils. We will arrange the stencil to the plexiglass and start rolling away to create layers by adding new stencils and new color paint to make your own unique monoprint. Materials: Plex glass large, rollers, paint, watercolor paper
Art Fee:$10

Garlic Sale
2024-09-22 12:00 - 14:00
If you missed the first garlic sale, come on out for the 2nd one!

Kids Art Programs
2024-09-23 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week is Scratch Art!
We will pick from multiple designs and we go over the technique on how to create your own scratch art painting. It’s fun and exciting to see how it comes out. It can be a little messy because we will be using a lot of black oil pastel for this project. Materials: Oil Pastels, toothpicks, drawing paper, Designs
Art Fee: $10

Adult Art Classes
2024-09-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll learn mixed media painting, part 1! We are going to use mix media on watercolor paper. We will start with a simple design and start adding our cut out and glue them carefully in place. Then we will start with a light watercolor base and any other enhancements. Make some careful pen details. Then come in with some pastels to give this composition some impressionist style with a glow of pastels. Spray fixative when complete. Materials: Watercolor paper, stencils for cut outs, glue, tissue paper, gold foil, pastels, and fixatives.
Art Fee: $10

LiBerry Pie Contest and Music Festival
2024-09-28 14:00 - 22:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us for this annual fundraiser!
Pie entries from 2-4PM at the Clausen Cabin, judging from 4-5PM
6-10PM for $5 slice of pies and music, featuring Ice Jam!

Kids Art Programs
2024-09-30 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on collage decoupage while making keepsake boxes! We will be decorating a keepsake box with an old shoe box. We will use scrapbooking paper and other decorative designs to make your keepsake box. Materials: Scrapbooking paper, tissue paper, glue, paint, and any other textured elements. Art Fee $8

Open hours
2024-10-02 15:00 - 18:00

Adult Art Classes
2024-10-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week is part 2 of a series on mixed media painting!
We are going to use mix media on watercolor paper. We will start with a simple design and start adding our cut out and glue them carefully in place. Then we will start with a light watercolor base and any other enhancements. Make some careful pen details. Then come in with some pastels to give this composition some impressionist style with a glow of pastels. Spray fixative when complete. Materials: Watercolor paper, stencils for cut outs, glue, tissue paper, gold foil, pastels, and fixatives.
Art Fee: $10

Book Club
2024-10-05 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
At the Bright Edge of the World, by Eowyn Ivey
From the best-selling author of The Snow Child, a thrilling tale of historical adventure set in the Alaskan wilderness.
In the winter of 1885, Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester sets out with his men on an expedition into the newly acquired territory of Alaska. Their objective: to travel up the ferocious Wolverine River, mapping the interior and gathering information on the region’s potentially dangerous native tribes. With a young and newly pregnant wife at home, Forrester is anxious to complete the journey with all possible speed and return to her. But once the crew passes beyond the edge of the known world, there’s no telling what awaits them.
With gorgeous descriptions of the Alaskan wilds and a vivid cast of characters – including Forrester; his wife, Sophie; a mysterious Eyak guide; and a Native American woman who joins the expedition – To the Bright Edge of the World is an epic tale of one of America’s last frontiers, combining myth, history, romance, and adventure.

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-07 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on paper art.
We will start by making a beautiful background color to watercolor paper. Brighter the better. Then we are going to add some salt to our watercolor to give it some texture. Then we are going to cut our paper in a unique design guided by the instructor. Then the design will be glued on the top of the watercolor background. It will give you dramatic results. Materials: watercolor paper, glue, black construction paper, scissors, salt, watercolor paint. A
rt Fee: $7

Adult Art Classes
2024-10-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll learn water colors – flowers.

JTEL Annual Meeting
2024-10-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us for a recap of the past year, volunteer appreciation, and the voting in of new board members!

Closed - Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day
2024-10-14

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-14 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on Scratch Art.

Adult Art Classes
2024-10-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll lbe painting water color sea scapes.

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-21 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on Halloween decorations crafting

Adult Art Classes
2024-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll be painting water color wreaths.

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-28 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll make Halloween decorations.

Halloween!!
2024-10-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Drop by for trick or treats!

Adult Art Classes
2024-11-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll learn Felting slippers, part 1!
This is a fun and cute project and it can be a wonderful gift. Especially to keep your feet warm during the winter. We will be making a mold of your foot size or bring a
trace of a foot of the size you are making. And then we will start the felting
process. This is a hands-on project and it takes a lot of hand work so be prepared to use
your hands to feel the wool. It is worth it because in the end you will have a pair of slippers
you will love. Materials: Wool, Foot Size, Foam Sheets, Scissors, Cheese Cloth, Plastic
Gloves, Leather for the bottom that can be glued or sewn onto the wool.
Art Fee: $40

Book Club
2024-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James D. Watson
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science’s greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.
With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick’s desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences: the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work.

Kids Art Programs
2024-11-04 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on weaving and loom knitting.
Learn how to use yarn to create your favorite items. We can make a bag or mittens by
weaving yarn. We will learn the techniques to weaving and loom knitting. So get ready to use your hands because this is a very repetitive process but you have excitement because you can see how it all comes out. Materials: Cardboard and yarn, knitting looms.
Fee: Donation

Adult Art Classes
2024-11-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll continue with our Felting slippers, part 2!
This is a fun and cute project and it can be a wonderful gift. Especially to keep your feet warm during the winter. We will be making a mold of your foot size or bring a
trace of a foot of the size you are making. And then we will start the felting
process. This is a hands-on project and it takes a lot of hand work so be prepared to use
your hands to feel the wool. It is worth it because in the end you will have a pair of slippers
you will love. Materials: Wool, Foot Size, Foam Sheets, Scissors, Cheese Cloth, Plastic
Gloves, Leather for the bottom that can be glued or sewn onto the wool.
Art Fee: $40

Closed - Happy Veterans Day
2024-11-11

Kids Art Programs
2024-11-11 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll learn to crochet and knit.
