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PPL Alum
PPL welcomes individuals from all walks of life and each has a unique story to tell — stories that illustrate the positive impact our library makes in the lives of those we serve. Stories that YOU make possible!
Meet some of our PPL Alum.
Keri King
My work thrives on creative research! As an illustrator and public artist, I love to see examples of visual storytelling from the past. And I am always hungry for resources that will inform the narrative content of new projects, and enrich the texture of my visual language. The PPL Creative Fellowship gave me a phenomenal chance ...
Eli Nixon
Eli Nixon’s forever incomplete public sculpture project — BLOODTIDE — which is currently on view throughout PPL’s Atrium staircase transformed recyclables into a menagerie of organisms in an effort to grok (and make more visible) the vastness of the horseshoe crab’s time on Earth as well as the relative recentness of human existence. From April ...
Osmary Barker
PPL actually has been an amazing resource for me for many years. I went to Johnson & Wales University, so this was a great place for me to come and just access books and get away from college life for a second. But, most recently, my connection to PPL has been with my kiddos. I’m ...