"It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks." What a great motto! I couldn't resist signing up again. Just pick a theme from their list of forty provocative prompts, pay for the blank sketchbook, they mail it to you, you fill it up however you want, and mail it back by January 31, 2012. That's the drill. Then the hundreds of barcoded sketchbooks tour the country, as well as Vancouver, and Toronto. Every time someone looks at your sketchbook you get an email. After the tour they live permanently in the Brooklyn Art Library. If you pay an extra $ 20 they do a great job of digitizing all your pages, which then become part of their Sketchbook Project searchable virtual archive.
Last year it was exciting to feel part of a community of thousands of people from around the country and around the world who were participating. This year it has become a tradition of sorts. I chose "Writing on the wall" as my theme, or maybe it chose me. I have no idea how I will approach it, or what will evolve. Fortunately there is plenty of time to see what the writing on the wall will reveal...
Join the fun! http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject
Unbelieveably, the Sketchbook Project folks at the Brooklyn Art Library have cataloged just under 10,000 sketchbooks, including mine, and are ready to take them on tour around the country. They are now "released into the wild", as they say, but organized, digitized, and bar-coded. I will be getting an email every time someone looks at it in person or on-line. This will be a kick! If you browse at http://arthousecoop.com/submissions you can get a sense of the range and variety of the participating artists from all over the world.
I just signed up! I'm stimulated by collaborative projects, by putting my own spin on something shared by many. This is going to be fun. It's perfect to do as a person in limbo, before having a house in which I will create a studio, while most of my supplies are in storage. Lo-tech and portable. The theme "If you lived here..." seemed like the right one for me to choose, having just moved and looking at real estate none of which so far is quite right. The moving van is coming tomorrow. The few boxes of art supplies marked 'open first' will be more than enough for the sketchbook. I've been sketching just with a black pen in my journal. I will never take a few colored pencils, glue, water colors, and scraps of collage papers for granted.You have until October 31st to sign up, and until January 15, 2011 to mail it in. Participation is international. Join in!http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject
