Q&A with Art Librarian Megan Lotts The New Brunswick Campus, As Seen by the Art Librarian is the latest addition to the Books We Read (BWR) Gallery. Previous projects by Megan Lotts (MCL) shared in online mini exhibits during the pandemic include: New Brunswick in Sketches: The Town New Brunswick in Sketches: The Campus The … Read More
The third Urban Sketching post of the summer aims to take us around the world. If you followed our post about sketching New Brunswick: The Campus and The Town, you are already familiar with the idea. Urban Sketching is a way to create shared experiences by documenting, collecting, and sharing drawings from our daily life. … Read More
If you have never visited Rutgers – New Brunswick, we have some sketches for you to fill in the blanks. The galleries of Sketching New Brunswick presented New Brunswick in Sketches: The Town with images featuring examples of Urban Sketching, a way to create shared experiences by documenting, collecting, and sharing drawings from our campus and daily life as we … Read More
Are you taking classes online this summer? Do you miss the life on campus? Or perhaps you have never visited Rutgers – New Brunswick. Then the galleries of Sketching New Brunswick are for you! New Brunswick in Sketches: The Campus The images in the collection feature examples of Urban Sketching, a way to create shared experiences by … Read More
Finals coming? Stressed out? Try grabbing a pencil as your next distraction tool. You can’t draw? Oh well, these are actually sketches, meant to give you a short mental break (just like reading). The point is to do something completely different which is engaging, creative, and enjoyable. Then, if the outcome is decent, you never … Read More
Last month was an easy month. We used to say this in my previous library all the time. Little did we know that the sentence will travel through continents and decades. The #rutgersurbansketching project is almost over and I am ashamed to realize didn’t have time to create a single sketch in November 2021. Without any … Read More
Remember the Urban Sketching Project at Rutgers? Hosted by art librarian Megan Lotts in last November, this creative project invited students, faculty, and staff at Rutgers to grab an pencil or fire up the iPad and start using that unused part of the brain. No experience needed, suggested Megan in all her posts as well as in … Read More
Members of the Rutgers University community in New Brunswick had a lot of fun in Fall 2020 by documenting their campus and daily life via Urban Sketching. This sentence, which may end up in one of the countless reports we write in these day, sums it up, one would think. Well, there is more to … Read More
As I started writing about the Rutgers Urban Sketching project, I found myself wondering about the difference between sketching and drawing. Eventually, I turned to the dictionary, where I learned that drawings are defined as being made with pencil, pen, or crayon, and that the aim of sketching is to capture one’s surroundings or draw … Read More
This would be the time in the New Brunswick Libraries when you could start thinking about the cute puppies to pet at one of the stressbuster events. As a second-best kind of substitute, we are sharing pictures of our pets many of whom had recently been promoted to coworkers in the remote working environment (as … Read More