Save the Date: Safe Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Event

 

First Sunday Lecture: The Classic Ranch House: Midcentury Architectural Design

First Sunday Lecture
The Classic Ranch House: Midcentury Architectural Design

Sunday, June 4, 2017
3:00 pm
Smyrna Public Library
Downstairs Meeting Room

Speaker: Amber Rhea, Georgia Department of Transportation

This presentation will provide an overview of midcentury residential architecture, with a focus on the Ranch House. Interior and exterior architectural features will be discussed, as well as the social context in which Ranch Houses became popular. Gain a deeper understanding of why Ranch Houses are important to our cultural heritage and worthy of preservation, and how the Georgia Department of Transportation is working to identify and document them.

Speaker Biography:

Amber is an Architectural Historian with the Georgia Department of Transportation and also serves on the DeKalb County Historic Preservation Commission. She received her Master's degree in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University.

The First Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library and Smyrna Library

Summer Reading Program Kick-Off

The kick-off party for the Summer Reading Program was held today at the Smyrna Community Center.  

The headliner for the event was Clifford the Big Red Dog.  He was very popular with all of the kids.  

Dairy Queen on Spring Road donated and served delicious hot dogs to the attendees.  The Friends of Smyrna Library also provided treats.  

A wide array of fun crafting kits and games kept the attending families quite busy and entertained.

The Summer Reading Program is the signature annual sponsorship of the Friends of Smyrna Library.     

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Program

We just had our first two kiddos complete the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program earlier today!!!

 Great job, Caleb and Malachi!

FOSL Board Member Bill Marchione Awarded Proclamation for Volunteer Service by Smyrna City Council

Last night Dr. William (Bill) Marchione was awarded a proclamation from the Smyrna City Council.  He was recognized for his many years of volunteer service with the Friends of Smyrna Library and Smyrna Arts & Cultural Council.  

Congratulations, Bill. 

Thank You, Cobb County Watershed Stewardship Program

Thank you, Angie Marcus and the Cobb County Watershed Stewardship Program for the rain barrel program at Smyrna Library this morning. We learned so much, thank you!

Silicone, Latex & Caulk Mixed Media by Brandon Marshall Opens at Smyrna Public Library Art Gallery

The May to August 2017 Art Gallery exhibit has opened – Silicone, Latex & Caulk Mixed Media by Brandon Marshall.  Mr. Marshall’s exhibit concludes on August 31. The Art Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Smyrna Library. The Art Gallery exhibits are sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Artist Statement:

It is incredible to look back and appreciate how a leaky shower changed my life. Armed with the blind confidence of new independence and two tubes of mismatched caulking, I fixed my first leak in my first apartment. As the caulking curdled and dried along the shower's unforgiving fault lines, I couldn't help but find beauty in the simplicity of its shape and texture. I was intrigued, and decided to add color to the equation. Using crude pieces of found scrap-wood as canvas, I began to experiment and create, employing dyed-caulking as my medium. Plastic lids, bubble wrap, beer caps and an ever growing assortment of found objects began to creep onto my canvases. 

As I continued to work in the film industry I realized the amount of waste that was produced, especially the waste of wood. I soon started to create my works on set walls discarded after a movie was finished. Eventually, my small living room morphed into a home gallery, and I became numb with the realization that I finally knew who I was and what I loved. What started as the inconvenience of a leaky shower, progressed into the inner awakening and ignition of passion that drives me to this day.

Humbly influenced by the brilliant works of Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, and Mark Bradford I strive to unite the anonymity of the abstract with the raw power of reflective association. Everything is relative; and what's found woven within the thick layers of life's strata serves as innate inspiration. I prefer to work big, with no visible frame, and avoid the boundaries of the immediately recognizable.