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Providing access to art, ideas, stories, culture and creative talent is core to Fayetteville Public Library’s role as a community center. In support of this, rotating art exhibitions are displayed throughout the library. The Fayetteville Public Library Art Committee accepts exhibition proposals year-round.
Looking for a display location? See our map here →
Artist: Terése Conway
On Display until November 30
Location: Lucky Day Gallery
This series of digital photographs translates plants found in local meadows, backyards, and farmers markets into intimate and careful floral studies.
Artist: Brit Borcher
On Display until December 30
Location: McIlroy Hallway (1st floor)
Heavily influenced by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s The Secret Garden, this large-scale triptych urges viewers to challenge negative thinking.
Artists: 2025 Banned Books Week Art Contest Winners
On Display until December 31
Location: Media Wing Gallery
Created by the 2025 winners of FPL’s Banned Books Week Trading Card Art Contest, this artwork represents books and authors who have been challenged, censored, or banned. Each piece celebrates the ongoing fight for intellectual freedom and the right to read.
Artists: 2022–2024 Banned Books Week Art Contest Winners
On Display until December 31
Location: Fiction Collection
Pieces from the 2022 through 2024 winners of FPL’s Banned Books Week Trading Card Art Contest explore themes of censorship and intellectual freedom through depictions of banned books and authors.
FPL welcomes artists of all mediums to share their craft with the community while activating library spaces for personal projects. Selected artists will be featured at the library, host public programs for all ages, have scheduled time for personal projects in library studios, performance spaces, quiet focus rooms and/or the Center for Innovation while receiving a stipend. Through this program, the library welcomes artists to share their craft with the community while activating these spaces for personal projects.
Looking for a display location? See our map here →
Artists: Life Styles students
Location: Reading Room Entrance
Mixed media wall sculpture using found objects and placed in birch cradles. In Louise Nevelson fashion, we chose to paint it white, as we were coming out of the Covid pandemic and white represents a new beginning. Quoting Louise Nevelson: “white summoned the early morning and emotional promise.”
Artists: Aimée Papazian
Location: 2nd floor staircase
"When I was growing up, there was a small plaque with an old key on the wall of my grandmother's house in Flushing, New York. That key was the only thing left of my grandfather's house after the entire Armenian quarter of his hometown in Turkey was burned down. He fled for his life that day, along with most of the Armenians in the country. He was 18 years old. After the fire, a friend went back to where his house had been, found that key in the ashes, and sent it to my grandfather's family.
I built a larger version of the key to my grandfather's house out of clay, then cast it in plaster as a model. This was the first key I made for this piece. "Voyage of Lost Keys" is a way to imagine a mass migration — a way to think about people who have lost their homes and their place in the world as still being somehow connected to each other."
— Aimée Papazian
Artists: Anita Huffington
Location: 4th floor ellipse
"Undine" is a water spirit. This mixed media sculpture represents the power and mystery of water, as well as the myths and legends surrounding it.
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