Join us on Sunday, July 6th, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm for an opening reception for our Art Show of the Month: Laurie Peek Botanicals. All are welcome to attend. The show will be on display throughout the month of July.

Rockland County resident Laurie Peek is an award-winning visual artist with over twenty-five years experience making images. She has an MFA in Photography from Visual Studies Workshop/Univ. Buffalo, NY, and she’s been a photo educator, photo-librarian, photojournalist and fine artist.

Peek’s photography and art have been exhibited widely across the US and internationally. In 2024 Peek was an “International Garden Photographer of the Year” Finalist, Cambridge Botanic Gardens, UK. She was a “Finalist” in Photolucida’s ”Critical Mass 2023” and in Klompching Gallery’s 2024 “Fresh” competition. For ten years she has been juried into the “Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers” in FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain.

Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Paterson Museum; Center for Photography at Woodstock; Center Santa Fe and Visual Studies Workshop, as well as the private collections of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Paula Tognarelli.

Peek’s work has been reviewed and published in, among others: Afterimage, Dek Unu Magazine, FotoNostrum, Artdoc Magazine, Fraction Magazine, A Photo Editor, Lenscratch, and The Photo Review.

www.lauriepeek.com

Laurie Peek

Thursday Family Bingo is coming up this week! Register on our website events calendar at piermontlibrary.org for bingo fun with snacks and prizes ⭐

Join us for a fun series of Summer Art Classes for students entering grades 1 – 12 with Alexis Starke beginning on Wednesday, July 2nd.

With summer themed projects, we will explore a variety of materials and techniques, drawing inspiration from art history, contemporary artists, the natural world, and our beautiful surroundings in Piermont!  Weather permitting, we will go outside some weeks. 

Hudson River Painting by Vianna Gagliardi

This year’s theme is Color Our World.  The program runs Monday, June 23 to Thursday, July 31, and is open to all children ages 4-12. Starting June 23rd, pick up a summer reading packet at the library to get started.  We’ll have special programs all summer, so check out our calendar (piermontlibrary.org) and sign up. Can’t wait to see you!

Our Adult Book Club meets once a month to have a lively discussion about a new book.  Members work together to pick a variety of books and new members are always welcome!  Please call or email the library to be added to our email list (info@piermontlibrary.org). 

Adult Book Club is currently meeting on the third Wednesday of the month at 3:00 pm unless otherwise stated.  

Our selection for June is The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali.