Thursday, July 29, 2010

the sketchbook project

I love love love art projects that are community-minded (and -mined), accessible and cheap.  This one definitely meets my criteria.

For Brooklyn-based Arthouse Co-op's The Sketchbook Project 2011, anybody can order a sketchbook (small, Moleskin), pick a theme (mine's "lights in the distance" and sister Natalie's is "facing forward"), and start sketching (or pasting photos, writing down songs, making up recipes, etc!) .  Participation costs $25, for which you'll receive a bar coded sketchbook to be filled and then placed on a nationally touring exhibit.  Anybody can participate; in the past, stay-at-home-moms and professional artists alike made books.  So cool!

5 comments:

annie said...

too bad you didn't pick "a record year for rainfall"

:)

amy lou said...

Ha! Didn't see it... Perhaps you should do that one?? :o)

Bring About {art} said...

Hi! Just stumbled upon your blog from a google search. Do you know if there is a deadline to this sketchbook project? I'm guessing so, just wondered how quickly my indecisive nature would have to make the move to be a part of it!

amy lou said...

Hey there, Bring About! Registration ends October 31st. So you have a while to be indecisive... ;)

annie said...

I should do that one... whether I turn it in or not.