Calendar

The Museum will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, in observation of the City of Artesia's holiday calendar. The Museum will reopen on Thursday, January 2, at 9:00 AM.

Join us for a fun craft related to this week's story time theme. Craft time is free and open to the public. All supplies provided.

Join us for stories, dances, fingerplay, and more! Story Time is free and open to the public.

Weekly Early Literacy Program for Babies. Mother Goose on the Loose is a proven method for planning and presenting programs that focuses on the whole child and incorporates research-based theories of learning, music, puppets, picture books, nursery rhymes, art, play, and language. This program is geared towards babies from 0 to 24 months. This program is free and open to the public.

Knitting and Crochet Club at the Library where you can socialize with other yarnsters. Bring your project or do one of ours. Some materials are provided. All ages are welcome.

Come learn what fantastic things you can knot your way into. Not a beginner? Not a problem. Bring your project or start one of ours and socialize with like-minded folks. This is a go-at-your-own-pace craft meeting. Ages 18+. Materials are provided but you are free to bring your own as well.

Join us for a fun craft related to this week's story time theme. Craft time is free and open to the public. All supplies provided.

Weekly Early Literacy Program for Babies. Mother Goose on the Loose is a proven method for planning and presenting programs that focuses on the whole child and incorporates research-based theories of learning, music, puppets, picture books, nursery rhymes, art, play, and language. This program is geared towards babies from 0 to 24 months. This program is free and open to the public.

Using Prenda, a software that will teach them the ins and outs of coding, children will learn how to design websites, build games, and create masterpieces. Join us for coding, friendships, and fun! Ages 8-12

?It's the second annual all ages Nailed It! Competition. Bring your family and friends to compete (or just watch and vote) with other teams to make a literary-themed treat in 30 minutes. Teams are 2 to 4 people and have at least one adult. Will you be the next title winner? No cooking involved, only decorating. Materials are provided. Free and open to the public.

Bring a sack lunch and join us for a discussion of "Hum If You Don't Know the Words" by Bianca Marais. Pick up a copy of the book at the Artesia Public Library. Life under Apartheid created a secure future for Robin, a nine-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Their meeting should never have occurred...until The Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, leaving Robin's parents dead and Beauty's daughter missing. In the aftermath, Beauty is hired to care for Robin, and the two forge a bond through their deep personal losses. Robin knows that if Beauty reunites with her daughter, Robin could lose her new caretaker forever, so she makes a desperate decision with devastating conseque

Join us for a fun craft related to this week's story time theme. Craft time is free and open to the public. All supplies provided.

Join us for stories, dances, fingerplay, and more! Story Time is free and open to the public.

Weekly Early Literacy Program for Babies. Mother Goose on the Loose is a proven method for planning and presenting programs that focuses on the whole child and incorporates research-based theories of learning, music, puppets, picture books, nursery rhymes, art, play, and language. This program is geared towards babies from 0 to 24 months. This program is free and open to the public.

Knitting and Crochet Club at the Library where you can socialize with other yarnsters. Bring your project or do one of ours. Some materials are provided. All ages are welcome.

Come learn what fantastic things you can knot your way into. Not a beginner? Not a problem. Bring your project or start one of ours and socialize with like-minded folks. This is a go-at-your-own-pace craft meeting. Free and open to the public Ages 50+. Materials are provided but you are free to bring your own as well.

Join us for a fun craft related to this week's story time theme. Craft time is free and open to the public. All supplies provided.

Weekly Early Literacy Program for Babies. Mother Goose on the Loose is a proven method for planning and presenting programs that focuses on the whole child and incorporates research-based theories of learning, music, puppets, picture books, nursery rhymes, art, play, and language. This program is geared towards babies from 0 to 24 months. This program is free and open to the public.

Using Prenda, a software that will teach them the ins and outs of coding, children will learn how to design websites, build games, and create masterpieces. Join us for coding, friendships, and fun! Ages 8-12

Book group for those who love food. Every book has a food theme. This month we're reading "Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons" by Lorna Landvik. Books are provided by the library. Feel free to a craft to keep your hands occupied while your mouth and brain discuss the latest foodie book. For those that can't attend the physical meeting, text @kitchlit to 81010 to join the discussion that way. Free and open to the public 18+.