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Ignacio Middle School seventh grade student, Kandin Johnson (center) interacts with one of the ICL exhibits, titled “Make it Rain” alongside his peers, Wednesday, Aug. 2. The interactive exhibit encourages participants to build mountains and valleys out of “rubber” sand, then make it rain to see where the water flows.
Kristie Ribera tours the Ignacio Community Library’s opening of the “We are Water” exhibit with daughters, Losita Alires and Leticia Alires and their grandfather Chris Ribera of Ignacio, Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Ignacio Community Library will host the “We are Water” exhibit from Aug. 1, through the end of October. During this time, visitors will be able to interact with the exhibition, listen to stories from community members, and participate in youth and family-friendly activities.
Photo Credit: Jeremy Wade Shockley | SU Drum
Photo Credit: Jeremy Wade Shockley | SU Drum
Photo Credit: Jeremy Wade Shockley | SU Drum
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ICL celebrates opening of ‘We are Water’ traveling exhibition

Friday - August 11, 2023 by Brigitta Rongstad | We are Water Program Manager

Free exhibition, educational programs, and events

The Ignacio Community Library is hosting the traveling exhibition “We are Water: Connecting Communities,” which showcases themes about water in the southwestern United States. While hosting the exhibition, the library will offer special programs and events for community members of all ages. Through the We are Water exhibition, community members are invited to explore their shared watershed and local ecosystems, connect with neighbors through their common and unique experiences with water, share their memories and stories, and come together to imagine a future for water in their communities.

“The ICL Staff is excited to host the We are Water exhibit offering our community a museum quality experience in our small town,” Ignacio Community Library Director, Marcia Vining said. “We are anticipating seeing our patrons interact with the exhibit and with each other with respect to water in the southwest. We had a fun and interesting opening day and can’t wait to see our patrons enjoying the exhibit.”

Ignacio Community Library will host the We are Water exhibit from August 1, 2023 through the end of October 2023. During this time, visitors will be able to interact with the exhibition, listen to stories from community members, and participate in youth and family-friendly activities. Upcoming community events will include family fun programs, book conversations, take home kits (available in English and Spanish and some versions in Navajo), and so much more!  For more information and to access a calendar of upcoming library programs, visit https://www.ignaciolibrary.org/.

The We are Water project is offered by the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the National Center for Interactive Learning at the Space Science Institute (NCIL/SSI), STARNet, Indigenous Education Institute (IEI), CoCoRaHS, Western Water Assessment, and the University of Colorado Boulder, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant numbers 1907024 and 1906951.

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