Library Program for Homeschoolers

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The Muskingum County Library System provides educational opportunities that are specially catered to area homeschoolers. 

MCLS Youth Services Librarian Elayna Glover talked about the library’s homeschoolers program and announced an upcoming event that will highlight female artists as a part of Women’s History Month.

“We are excited to offer different programming just for our homeschool families that come in,” Glover said. “There are many families of children of all ages and different co-op groups that work. So we like to partner with them here at the library, offering resources for their parents as well as the children themselves.”

This week they will host Homeschoolers Explore. An event that will highlight the artforms of two female artists and then provide the students an opportunity to create their own style of work based on those artists’ concepts. 

“So Alma Thomas is famous for abstract color blocks,” Glover said. “So we will be taking small pieces of paper and different colors and using those to create mosaics. And then Faith Ringgold was famous for story quilts. So we’re going to use different types of paper cut into strips and use that to create different story patterns.”

The one-hour program will take place 1 p.m. Wednesday, the 19th, at the Duncan Falls – Philo branch as well as 11 a.m. Friday, the 21st, at the New Concord branch library. The events are free to all children and registration is requested.