St. Ignace Public Library

Toddler Talk & Play
2022-02-08 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-01-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-01-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2021-12-21 10:30 - 11:30, 2021-12-07 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for a fun, play-based program for toddlers and preschoolers where they explore the materials provided while connecting with other children/families. Open to children ages 1 year to 5 years. Parents/caregivers are encourage to follow their lead and explore as well.

Toddler Storytime
2022-02-04 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-01-28 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-01-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-01-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-01-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2021-12-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2021-12-10 10:30 - 11:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for an interactive storytime and themed crafts in the Children’s Section on Friday’s at 10:30 AM.

Ages 2+, but younger siblings are welcome to join.

LEGO Club
2022-01-27 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-01-13 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-12-09 15:00 - 16:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The library will provide the LEGOs, you provide the imagination.

LEGO Club is open to anyone interested, there is no need to sign up. You can work on your own creation or follow one of the building challenges provided.

If you have any LEGOs to spare, please consider donating them to the LEGO club.

Thank you to the Friends of the Library for their generous purchase of LEGOS for this club.

Family Flicks
2022-01-22 13:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for a family friendly movie afternoon featuring Ron’s Gone Wrong.

Adult Book Club- Great Michigan Read
2022-01-20 17:15 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us on Thursday, January 20, at 5:15 PM in discussing the 2021-2022 Great Michigan Read, “The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell”. Stop by the library to pick up a copy that is yours to keep.
In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle.

“America’s Joan of Arc”—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world.
The 2021-22 Great Michigan Read is presented by Michigan Humanities and supported by national, statewide and local partners, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Meijer Foundation, and Martin Waymire.

Local Artist Exhibit
2022-01-18 17:15 - 20:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join the library for an evening celebrating and showcasing local art on January 18 at 5:15 PM. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, meet & greet with our local artists, and enjoy their wonderful art-perhaps take a piece or two home with you.

Current artist line up
Jim Draze
Veronica Danks Lozen
Audrey Fick
Robin Kissinger
Ruth LaChapelle
Tim LaJoice
Paula McNamara

Meet our Artists
Jim Draze
A native of the U.P., the outdoors was my playground. A bicycle was my passport to lakes, streams, waterfalls, woodlots, and fishing. During my youth, there was an “artistic itch” nagging at me, but never scratched. In 2006, seeing an end to my regular work life in Public Health, I enrolled in an “after work internship” in metal arts design and fabrication in a Kalamazoo metal arts studio and smithery. After retirement, I built my own backyard forge and smithery, tried it for a year, and found it too large and the outdoor environment was not conducive to year-round work.
Then, I discovered copper, and moved my metal work indoors and went to work cutting, pounding, sawing, forming, and enameling copper. I started creating “designs from nature” that I learned to love as a boy.
My jewelry pieces now consist of enamel on copper pieces fabricated from salvaged (mostly) copper pipe and ground glass (the enamel), hand-crafted fine silver castings on hand-tooled copper, and some precious stones set in sterling silver. I endeavor to stay true to my love for designs from nature and much of my work is in, or on copper.
I offer handcrafted jewerly: enamel on copper pendants and pins, a variety of stones and precious gems set in silver or copper, some beach glass pendants, and some Petoskey stone pendants.
I create my pendants and pins from raw materials, cutting figures by hand and firing, soldering, etc., by hand. My work is currently offered for sale in the Michilimackinac Historic Society “Made in Michigan” Gift Shop.
I am a happy resident of St. Ignace, MI
Veronica Danks Lozen
I remember my first art class at age 4 and winning my first art show contest at age 5. I’ve always been drawn to color and how to recreate nature and images. I continued to grown and learn as the years went on switching my mediums constantly; pencil, crayon, watercolor, acrylic, chalk, calligraphy, ink, metals, pottery, drafting, geometry, landscaping and carpentry. I see art and color in everything. I’ve recently begun using items from nature in my work in an effort to learn native plants. Lines and basic form with ink and acrylic are what I always go back to. It feels the most comfortable to me and allows me to express myself in my art.
Audrey Fick
Audrey J. Fick was born in Detroit and eventually moved to the Upper Peninsula in the late sixties. She obtained her BS Degree from Lake Superior State University in June of 2015. She has authored six novels of which five are published and the sixth is very close to being released. The books are entitled Corruption at Jamestown Prison 2010, Who is Ellen Roquefort – 2012, Murder in the Snows – 2018, Revelation at the Snows – 2019, Marquette Island, View from the Snows – 2020 and currently The Constipated Elephant, a Mystery at Pennington House. Audrey is the mother of six children, eleven grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. She has written feature stories from time to time for The St. Ignace News also a fiction editor for the fifth edition of Border Crossing an international literary journal. Her book review of Mark Jacobs’ Forty Wolves was published in 2015 of Peace Corp Magazine.
Ruth LaChapelle
I have been very blessed in that I was born and have lived my entire life in St. Ignace, located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. For many years photography has been a passion for me. I have learned never to take anything for granted. Around every corner, with each new dawn, lies something exciting…something beautiful…something that literally takes your breath away. I love experiencing, as well as preserving, these wonderfully exciting, beautiful moments. I also love to travel and share those photos and experiences as well. Life is too short not to enjoy every moment! Take time to enjoy the beauty that surrounds us.

Library Board Meeting
2022-01-11 17:00 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The St. Ignace Public Library Board meets the second Tuesday of each month at 5:00 pm in the community room of the library. The public is welcome to attend and participate in the meeting during public comment.

Friends of the Library Book Sale
2022-01-08 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-01-07 10:00 - 17:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The Friends of the Library Book Sale will take place in the St. Ignace Public Library Community Room on Friday, January 7, and Saturday, January 8.

This book sale directly supports the Friends of the Library who in turn pay for library programs, new technology, craft supplies, books, and so much more.

Library Closed
2022-01-01, 2021-12-31, 2021-12-26, 2021-12-25, 2021-12-24 | MI
The library will be closed all day.

Gingerbread House Workshop
2021-12-18 11:00 - 13:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join us for a cozy Gingerbread House Workshop on December 18 at 11:00 AM. We will have all the supplies to build and decorate your delicious gingerbread house.
To ensure we have enough gingerbread houses baked, we ask that interested participants register with the library. You can register online or by calling 906-643-8318.
REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT.

Adult Book Club
2021-12-16 17:15 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Book Club is back! Join us on Thursday, December 16, at 5:15 PM in discussing “This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger”
“1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.
Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.”

December Library Board Meeting
2021-12-14 17:00 - 18:00 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
The St. Ignace Library Board meeting will take place on December 14, 2021 at 5:00 PM. The public is welcome to attend and participate in the meeting during public comment.

Mrs. Claus Toy Making Workshop
2021-12-04 11:00 - 12:30 | St. Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, St. Igance, MI, 49781, United States
Join Mrs. Claus for a Toy Making Workshop on December 4 at 11:00 AM. Find your perfect future stuffed animal, fill them with love, stuff them with dreams, learn a little about the North Pole, and take your new buddy home.

This is a free event!
