While plenty of summer programming and the promise of perusing books, flicks, and other rentals (in the comfort of cool A/C) at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library is enough to bring folks by, a new art exhibit is sure to catch your eye – even before entering.

"Thinking Big Is What We Do," a visual art exhibit sponsored by Culver's, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Wisconsin Historical Society, and History Makers Tour, features about 10 'tall-tale postcards.' 

Folks will note larger-than-people veggies and fruits, fish, and more imagery inspired by rural Wisconsin life, superimposed together to create these postcards. Many of the featured postcards were made by Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr., who had a studio in Waupun, Wis.

"Tall-tale postcards became popular at the start of the twentieth century," the library's recent post about the exhibit shares. "Modified images like the ones seen in this display were created when photographers took two prints: one of a background landscape, and another close-up of an object that was cut out and superimposed onto the first."

The outdoor exhibit will be up just outside the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (400 Eau Claire St., Eau Claire) through Monday, July 14.

Check out the indoor art exhibits and other events coming up at the library at www.ecpubliclibrary.info.