Creativebug offered as new library resource
- Jan Cook
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Library now offers Creativebug, a new free digital resource that lets library patrons use their library cards to access classes in sewing, quilting, art and design, jewelry, cooking, music and more.
Creativebug’s video library has more than 1,000 high quality online art and craft classes and adds new classes every day.
The Creativebug access is located on the library Web site, http://library.lakecountyca.gov, under “Resources.”
You can watch classes on Creativebug anytime, anywhere, in the library, on your home computer or on a phone or tablet.
Once you sign up for a free Creativebug account with your library card you can view or review any class as often as you like.
You can download or print out the patterns, instructions and recipes that accompany the classes.
Classes range from a few minutes in length to about an hour.
Creatirvebug offers many classes for both beginning and advanced crafters and artists. In the art and design category alone beginners can find an abundance of choices.
Budding artists can have fun with the “Creative Boot Camp: 6 Exercises to Spark Artistic Discovery” in easy painting, drawing, and collage projects. The “Daily Drawing Challenge” guides students through drawing patterns with brush tip pens. Other beginning art classes cover composition, perspective and creative doodling.
Creativebug seeks out the best, most engaging teachers for their classes. Their expert instructors have been featured in Vogue, Martha Stewart Living, O Magazine and other publications.
Funding for Creativebug comes from a grant through a pilot program from the California State Library and the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum.
The Lake County Library is one of 10 libraries across California that have received grants to create community-driven makerspaces through this program.
Jan Cook is a library technician with the Lake County Library.