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WeCOPE: Connecting with our Positive Emotions

WeCOPE is an evidence-based program that helps adults cope with life stress. WeCOPE has been shown to reduce stress and depression, increase positive affect, and improve health behaviors. Managing life’s challenges in healthy ways allows participants to take better care of themselves and others. This 6-week program meets once a week for 1 hour. You will learn about and be encouraged to practice 11 different skills such as mindfulness, positive reappraisal, gratitude, and goal setting, among others. This event is co-sponsored with the Spring Green Community Library and UW:Madison Extension.

Space in the class is limited. Register here to attend. 

Moving Senior Bodies

Join Upland Hills Health professionals Rosie Morrey, APNP, and Jennifer Day, COTA, for weekly classes focusing on balance and strength training to promote healthy aging. Some benefits of strength training include: slowing down the loss of muscle; increasing bone density; improving balance and coordination, which will decrease fall risks; boost energy level; and increase mental sharpness - to name a few. For the classes, please bring your own weights, wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes. You will also need to bring water. This event is co-sponsored with the Spring Green Community Library and Upland Hills Health.

Register for this class here: https://forms.gle/RvFxBo3nHii4mn2a9

The dates of this course are:

• September 17, 24
• October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
• November 12, 19

No class on November 5 due to the Election. 

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Exploring Alcohol Inks

Join us for a fun and creative alcohol ink workshop! Alcohol ink offers vibrant, flowing colors that are perfect for creating unique designs on ceramic tiles. This will be a great opportunity to experiment with the medium and create personalized pieces. You will leave with 4 unique tiles, created by you! It’s fun! It’s easy! No drawing required!

Participant numbers are limited, and registration is required. https://forms.gle/d5LWdiM2EtS3uudL9

Instructor: BillieJo Scharfenberg: A native Mid-Westerner, raised in rural Wisconsin, the artist journeyed to New England in 1990. On completing her degree in Fine Arts, she embarked on her long dreamt of career as a professional artist, with stained glass as her primary medium. Upon returning to Wisconsin, BillieJo has offered her professional talents to the community as gallery and exhibition curator, teacher, and mentor.

Jan von Stein is exhibiting her art in the Community Room Gallery throughout September. She talks about herself and her art, “I grew up in Hancock County, Ohio.  I am a retired art teacher with over thirty-five years of teaching experience. I have taught preschool through college age student artists in three states. I have lived in Ohio, Vermont, Illinois and currently live in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin.  It is my years of teaching and Liberal Arts background that nurtured my exploration in a wide variety of media and subjects.  My artistic process seems to be about finding my way. I enjoy purely decorative arts, but many times, even that, gravitates back to subjects that are very personal. I enjoy exploring technical skill as well as letting pure concept drive the expressive experience. Most recently, I have enjoyed exploring words to instigate the concept. My work includes assemblages, calligraphy, artist books, drawing, painting, mixed media as well as an occasional small sculpture”.  Von Stein’s work is available for viewing during regular library hours when the community room is not in use. Please ask for the key at the circulation desk.   

Mary Dickey is exhibiting her Bricolage in the Glass Case Gallery.  "The pieces almost always start from a found object." Mary tells about herself, "A Wisconsin native, I was born in Sturgeon Bay. I spent two years in the River Valley School District as the traveling art teacher whose elementary schools included Wyoming Valley, Clyde, Dixon, and Spring Green. After a two year stay in Ghana, West Africa, my husband and I moved to an old farmhouse in Roxbury, WI in 1975. Having always been a "maker" from Christmas ornaments to beaded jewelry, in 2000 after the death of my mother, I began to try to address my life in my art". As Mary's resume attests, she has extensively shown the results of "addressing her life in her art" including shows at the Milwaukee art museum, MMOCA, Edgewood College, Alverno College, and galleries around the state and into Minnesota. Mary's Bricolage is available for viewing during regular library hours.