Local Adventures Inspired by History from Innovator in Residence Vivian Li
Checkout Anywhere Adventures!
Anywhere Adventures is now live. Visit the site and start exploring!
Where to next?
We're looking to bring Anywhere Adventures to two new communities in the United States! Head over to this Signal blog post and nominate your hometown!
About the Work
The Library of Congress has appointed Seattle-based artist and developer Vivian Li as the 2025 Innovator in Residence. With her project, “Anywhere Adventures”, Li created a mobile website experience for audiences around the country to learn about their hometowns through items from the Library’s digital collections. Through her popular social media series about the Seattle Fremont Bridge in 2023, Li found others who shared her enthusiasm for entertaining and informative stories about local history. As 2025 Innovator in Residence, she worked with Library staff to highlight unique, amusing and awe-inspiring collection items that enable young people to discover the Library’s vast online resources of their own communities. In addition to Li’s hometown of Seattle, Washington, Anywhere Adventures spotlights Chicago, Illinois and Southeastern Wyoming, nominated by Americans as part of a crowdsourced outreach campaign in early 2025. The website provides self-guided tours and activities for each location, all culminating in a personalized zine, or digital scrapbook, to share with others. The next Broad Agency Announcement is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2026, with the Residency beginning in September 2026. We encourage you to monitor the program page.
Publications
- Should Anywhere Adventures Come to Your Town?
- Announcing Anywhere Adventures Locations
- Innovator in Residence, Vivian Li, Visits the Library
About Vivian
Vivian Li is an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois. She previously served as an Artist in Residence creating digital data visualizations for two historic Seattle bridges in a partnership between the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and Seattle Department of Transportation. She published the first volume of her comic cookbook on homemade Chinese cuisine, ABC Cooking, in 2023. Li has contributed comics to Papeachu Review, Fogland Press and Portland Zine Symposium.
Contact
For more information or questions about this project, email LC-Labs@loc.gov, subscribe to The Signal blog, and follow Vivian on Instagram @vivianlikesfruit External.