A Permanent Record

02/21/2026

Bundle up and head to the Kansas City Public Library’s Central location to view A Permanent Record! Mountain Gallery, second floor. 🤗

Artist Heidi Pitre’s new show brings together literature, nostalgia and pen-and-ink illustrations on vintage library checkout cards. Pitre brings her library card art to — where else? — the Kansas City Public Library.

08/20/2025

She is little, but she is powerful! 💪🏼

never fails to surprise and amaze us! I am so proud of this woman!

05/24/2025

With ’s television version of ’s The Handmaid’s Tale coming to a bittersweet end, I’ve decided to hold a fundraiser. For $5, you can win a Permanent Record 16 x 24” oversized canvas library card print.

Here’s the best part: I’m donating all proceeds to !

Go to: gofundme.com/handmaids-fundraiser
Cut off is May 31st at midnight.

Please share!

And remember: Don’t let the bastards grind you down!

04/24/2025

How bittersweet is the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale? I love it, but at the same time, I want it to end. The stress of it all! Not to mention that it is mimicking real life right now. Is everyone caught up?

Looking forward to some sweet revenge!

💪🏼💪🏾💪🏿

04/10/2025

Published one hundred years ago today!

‘Who is this Gatsby anyhow?’ demanded Tom suddenly. ‘Some big bootlegger?’
‘Where’d you hear that?’ I inquired.
‘I didn’t hear it. I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know.’
-F Scott Fitzgerald

🎇

02/22/2025

Walt
Gouache on vintage library borrower card.
🔴 but prints available on my site.

🐭

02/21/2025

LSU Tigers Football
Gouache and colored pencil on vintage library borrower card.
🔴 but prints available on my site.

🐅

02/18/2025

Reflections of a Whale-watcher
Gouache on vintage library borrower card.
🔴 but prints available on my site.

🐋

02/16/2025

I have some new cards to post!

Albert Einstein
Gouache on vintage library borrower card.
🔴 but prints are available on my site.

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02/08/2025

Hell, I forgot to post this yesterday! Laura Ingalls Wilder and Charles Dickens share the same birthday. February 7th!