A meditative art form workshop will be offered today at the Brown Library as part of its Teen Summer Reading Program “Spark a Reaction.”

Zentangle will be offered to teens 13 to 18 years old, said Kim Davenport, library services coordinator and head of tech services at Brown Library. The program will involve participants in an abstract and meditative self-expression using a 3-inch by 3-inch white square, or tile, black pens and pencils.

“You can really Zentangle anything,” said Brown Library Assistant Claudia Dahlen. “There’s no structured thought to it. It’s really a combination of abstract patterns that accumulate to form a finished product. You don’t think about it — you just do it. You don’t have a preconceived picture in your mind.”

Davenport said Zentangle is one of the few art forms in which you intentionally keep from planning the look and design of the finished piece. This leaves the artist free to enjoy the Zentangle process instead of worrying if it looks right.

Davenport, Dahlen and another assistant, Elizabeth Tankard, head the activity, which has plenty of open slots, Davenport said.

The activity is part of Brown Library’s Teen Summer Reading Program, a statewide initiative to encourage youth to continue to improve their reading skills during the months they are not in school, Davenport said. The state gives guidelines for the program and each library that participates chooses activities that best suit its community.

“Zentangle is part of our collaborative summer library program,” Davenport said. “It’s actually sort of a meditative art form and it helps the teens with focus and self-expression.”

Zentangle is not the only activity left on the library summer reading program agenda, Davenport said. On July 25, the library will host a recycling project — “Teens Do Something” — targeting the reduce, reuse, recycle slogan. Participants are asked to bring an old T-shirt, which will be decorated using art materials and made into something useful like a bag for shopping. The project will be part of the program’s finale and participants will be given awards based on participation and reading accomplishments over the summer, Davenport said.

To register for Zentangle or “Teens Do Something,” call 252-946-4300.