Local Adventures Inspired by History from Innovator in Residence Vivian Li
Should Anywhere Adventures come to your town?
From January 22nd - February 5th, we're accepting nominations for two places in the USA where Innovator in Residence Vivian Li should develop Anywhere Adventures mobile experiences! Should it be your town? To put in a nomination, comment on this Signal blog post with a link to a free to use item about your hometown on loc.gov. We'll share what towns we pick on the Signal in March! Happy Adventuring!
About the Work
The Library of Congress has appointed Seattle-based artist and developer Vivian Li as 2025 Innovator in Residence. With her project, “Anywhere Adventures ”, Li will create a 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 will work 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. “Anywhere Adventures” will spotlight histories from multiple U.S. cities nominated by Americans during a crowdsourced outreach campaign in early 2025. The finished website will provide self-guided tours and activities for each location, all culminating in a personalized, scrapbook-like “zine” to share with others.
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.