It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country.
After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project. To participate and have us send you a sketchbook that will go on tour, start by choosing a theme to the right.
Sign up and pick your theme and we'll send you a blank sketchbook. After you fill it up and send it back to us, we'll take it on a national tour to 6+ cities along with thousands of other sketchbooks. The books will travel to museums and galleries in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, Chicago, and Portland, MN. After the tour, your book becomes a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library in Brooklyn, NY. This year we've added a ton of new features including notifications via text message or email when someone looks through your book, bio cards in every book, live webcasts of some of the tour stops, and more! The Sketchbook Project and Art House have been featured in Time out NY, CNN, PBS, Good Magazine, Juxtapoz and more!
For more information on the project and to sign up:
http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject
The Sketchbook
Each artist is sent the same blank Moleskine sketchbook. We've only got two rules: first, the book must be used in some way - no sending us back an empty book or a completely different book! Second, the sketchbook must stay within its original dimensions (because we don't want to have to provide an extra suitcase just for your book while we're touring the country).
Each book will be given a barcode so we can easily catalog it into The Brooklyn Art Library system. Once we catalog it, artists will be able to track where on the tour their book is viewed and how many times someone pulled it from the shelf - we want to make sure you can stay connected with your sketchbook!
The availability of sketchbooks vary each day, so sign up quickly to reserve the one you want! You have the option to choose the kind of Moleskine and the color of the cover when you add the project to your cart over to the right.
