Out of this world art installation coming to Champaign Public Library
CHAMPAIGN, Ill (WCIA) — Visitors at the Champaign Public Library are getting an out of this world experience this week with a new space-themed art installation.
From April 7-13, local artist Adriane Binky Donley’s “Space! The Milky Way, Two Ways,” will be on display for National Library Week.
Binky Donley said her love of space started from an early age when she lived in Tampa, Florida, and would often see space shuttles taking off while riding her bike to school.
“People flying to space was, to me, as normal as people flying across the country in an airplane,” she added.
Binkey Donley said she would often lay on her driveway and watch the stars, where she found the beauty of outer space.
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“It is stunning, dazzling, exciting, dramatic and inspiring. It is glittering and mysterious. It embodies history, legend and the future,” she said. “It has the power to make us feel so small and at the same time part of something very big.”
In her installation, Binkey Donley chose to portray the beauty of the Milky Way. Visitors can see the artwork in the library lobby and Children’s area at the Main Library, and the east windows of the Douglass Branch.
The exhibit will also be on display for the Boneyard Arts Festival — April 12-14 — and for the Read for the Stars! reading challenge event from May 15 to August 15.
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