Library art project soars to state fair

The Petersburg Library is submitting a collaborative art project created by children involved with its summer reading program into an art exhibit at the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines.

The project is a free-standing set of multi-colored phoenix wings that members of the community can pose in front of while holding a chalk board with a power word written on it.

"We have such a great art community," said program coordinator Jessica Ieremia. "I thought it was a good way to connect ourselves to the community of southeast Alaska."

The phoenix wings were taken to Haines by Josef Quitslund, a...