We recently heard about a really amazing art event that is currently traveling throughout the United States. The Sketchbook Project is displaying nearly 10,000 completed sketchbooks in nine major cities in the United States and is produced by Arthouse, a Brooklyn-based co-op with a goal to bring art to the masses. Arthouse began its project by sending out 28,839 blank sketchbooks to artists in 94 different countries. Almost one-third were mailed back to them, pages filled with wonderful expressions of creativity. We wish we had heard about this earlier so we could have sent in our own hand-drawn doodles and dreams! But thankfully we will have the opportunity to view the incredible works in April when the tour makes a stop in Atlanta.
The sketchbooks began their tour in Brooklyn in February. After the tour finishes in July all of the sketchbooks will be housed as a permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library where they will be catalogued and available for public view. Check to see if The Sketchbook Project will be coming to a city near you. You can also view many of the sketchbooks here on the Arthouse flickr page!
