photo by: Courtesy of Lawrence Public Library

Artist Louis Copt is pictured in front of the Lawrence Public Library with his artwork "Fuel For The Imagination."

Updated at 12:59 p.m. Wednesday

The Lawrence Public Library Friends & Foundation has launched a new poster series called “Library Landscapes,” which is intended to “capture the magic” of the library through the lens of local artists.

Lawrence artist Louis Copt has kicked off the series with a piece called “Fuel for the Imagination,” which depicts the library’s northwest reading corner in Copt’s recognizable “barn style.”

“I chose this view of the large window in the northwest corner of the building to represent the library as a window to the knowledge of the world,” Copt said in a library news release Wednesday. “The angles of the architecture also remind me of a ship moving forward under a brilliant blue Kansas sky. To fuel our imaginations, all we have to do is enter and explore.”

High-quality reproductions of Copt’s original artwork are available for sale as collectible posters and notecards at library-landscapes.square.site. Limited numbers of the reproduced piece signed by the artist also are available. All proceeds support the library.

The plan of Lawrence Public Library Friends & Foundation is to select one new artist and release one new poster each fall, so that the artworks become a collectible series, Kathleen Morgan, director of development and community partnerships, told the Journal-World. An artist for 2023 has not yet been selected. Morgan said an application process would be created to choose an artist who “represents the breadth of our community, and the library’s mission and vision.”