Patterson Library

09/19/2026

🍇Join us at Westfield's Grape and W**e Fest! 🍇 Patterson Library is open until 2pm today, Sat. Sept. 19. Our furry friends are here until 1pm. 🐇🐐🦆

09/18/2026

Thank you, Westfield!

We’re so grateful to everyone who helped make this year’s Annual Auction & Chicken Dinner such a success. Whether you donated, volunteered, attended, or supported the event in another way, you were part of what made the evening special.

Your support helps Patterson Library continue to offer programs, collections, technology, and services for our community throughout the year.

Thank you for showing up for your library.

09/17/2026

This is the last week to view Joseph Grice's "Reverence" in the Patterson Library Octagon Gallery. The library is open until 8pm today, 10am-6pm Friday, and 10am-2pm on Saturday.

Joseph Grice

"My bird paintings are a tether between the natural world, and human emotion. Each piece represents a moment in time in a story both untold, and well known. Bravery, wisdom, strength, beauty, and joy are among the traits portrayed in these anthropomorphic characters. They are reflections of ourselves, displaying characteristics that we can admire and live up to. They represent a reminder that clarity can come from the smallest of moments, and that we are all connected to nature in profound ways. These bird portraits explore what it means to be truly human, through the lens of ornithological illustrations."

"Joseph Grice is a muti-disciplined artist and educator from Jamestown, NY. He has taught fine art at Infinity Visual and Performing Arts in Jamestown, Holt School of Fine Art in Charlotte, NC, and continues to teach workshops at Chautauqua Art Gallery in Jamestown. In love with the process of making art, and endlessly inspired by nature, Grice paints highly detailed bird portraits in oil paint, celebrating the unique wildlife of our region, and reflecting traits and emotions that we see in ourselves through the birds that surround us.

Influenced by famed Jamestown Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, Grice chooses a more conceptual, story-telling approach to ornithological illustration that bridges the gap between science & contemporary art. Grice has displayed work in galleries and museums in New York, Vermont, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and California. In 2026, Grice was awarded a NYSCA grant sponsored by Arts Services Inc. for an upcoming mural project to be displayed outside of Chautauqua Art Gallery, in Jamestown, NY. "

For more information and sales interest, please contact Joseph Grice - [email protected]

09/15/2026

Patrick Stokes -"Faces of Ukraine" display and presentation has been rescheduled to a CLOSING RECEPTION on Friday, October 16 from 4pm-5pm.

09/10/2026

Book Club interest? Joining a book club is a great choice if you want to read more often, try new types of books, and make friends who share your interest in reading.

09/10/2026

What are you reading? Join us at 4pm today for BOOK TALK. This monthly organically lead book club gears itself to discovering new books to read from your own peers.

09/08/2026

The author presentation tonight with E.B Stepansky has been cancelled.

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