Adults

Summer Spice Club

New take-home kits available August 1st.

Pick-up at the Reference Desk

We’ve started a Spice of the Month Club! We have new spice kits available each month this summer. This month’s featured spice is Ginger! The kit includes a spice sample (enough to use in a recipe), two recipes from library books, and some spice facts!

The kits are free and don’t require any registration or sign up. Just pick one up at the reference desk the next time you’re in the library!

If you make a recipe with the spice, take a picture and tag us! We have a weekly prize drawing for those participating in spice of the month! You could win a new book light, an apron, and more! Plus you’ll be entered to win the grand prize drawing in August!

Pocket Paintings Waiting List

Our August Pocket Paintings program is full. However, we will have another in October! 

If you would like to be on the waiting list, please fill out this form with your contact information.

When we are ready to open registration for the painting in October, we will contact the waiting list first. If there are registration spots still available after that, we will open registration to the public.

Pocket paintings is a free program for adults interested in art.  The program will encourage you to explore creativity and provides a little relation from our busy lives.  We will paint on mini canvas (usual 3.5 x 2 or similar) and all supplies are provided. You’ll get to take your mini painting home with you at the end of the program.  

This program is for ages 13+

Author Talk with David Sebben

Solomon Butler was a former Hutchinson High School Student and Athlete. He went on to attend Dubuque University, and competed in the 1919 Inter-Allied Games (A military substitute for the cancelled Olympics). He was the second black quarterback in the NFL, started men’s and women’s basketball teams, and toured the country playing football, basketball, and baseball. Throughout school and professional athletic careers, Butler held many records, challenged standards, and overcame numerous racial issues and led a life full of adventure.

Author David Sebben, has a passion for sports history and took interest in Solomon Butler’s story through a connection with Rock Island High School, where Butler graduated before attending Dubuque. Mr. Sebben will talk about his process writing this book, his connection to Solomon Butler’s story, and more while visiting the Hutchinson Public Library in late July.

This book is located in the Kansas Room and is available for checkout.

Bad Art Night

July 31 @ 5:30PM

Adults, join us once again to make some truly abhorrent artwork! Experiment with color, shape, and dimension. Break all the rules. no art or design rule is safe!  Build an abominable….thing.  Put glitter on everything. Paint with no restraint, just not on our walls please!  

We will have books on display from a couple Museums of “Bad Art” for your inspiration and plenty of supplies on hand for you to create something as unsightly as possible!

At the end of the night we will do a group vote and pick the worst three art pieces, each will win an award of…. not excellence. The worst of the worst will earn the title and prove that they are better at making bad art than anyone else! What fun!

Free your creative side and relax with us during Bad Art Night on July 31 at 5:30PM.  

Please register to attend this event, we will only limit if numbers exceed the maximum limit on our space. It helps us to determine how many supplies we need.

This event is intended for adults, however everyone is welcome. We may be using supplies and equipment not suitable for children to use without a parent or guardian.