Raise-a-Reader Installation

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This large brightly lit section of an original painting donated to VPL by artist Katherine Shoemaker, recognizes a decade of contributions made by the Raise-a-Reader Foundation. Each year library volunteers and volunteers from the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Canucks hockey club sell newspapers to support literacy programs at the library.

This lightbox shows a section of the painting which depicts a dreamscape Vancouver, where children and their parents read for enjoyment and pleasure, taking flights of imagination and fancy.

The painting, expertly scanned at very high resolution, was printed onto Duratrans and placed in a custom lightbox. The lightbox is mounted over the Children's Library at the Central Library. It can be seen from the library windows that face the south Robson Street plaza at Library Square and stays lit day and night.