This year thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at art spaces in 14 cities. After the tour, they will join the collection of the Brooklyn Art Library and made available to the public seven days a week."
I signed up to be a part of the Sketchbook Project 2012--they sent me my little sketchbook, I filled it up and sent it back. I just think it's super cool that my sketchbook is now going on tour and people from all over will be able to look at it!
When signing up for the project, I had to pick a theme for my sketchbook from a list. I chose "Travel With Me" as my theme, and had originally planned on drawing different places that I went. The first drawing in the book is of the Portofino Bay hotel in Orlando, Florida, which looks almost exactly like Portofino, Italy. After that, my idea completely changed. I'm going to Italy in May of this year, and I am currently learning to speak Italian (thanks to Rosetta Stone), so I decided to use my sketchbook to chronicle my language-learning efforts.
If you'd like to see more of my Sketchbook Project 2012 drawings, check out my Facebook page.
The tour starts in April 2012, and here's where it's going:
- Brooklyn, NY
- Chicago, IL
- Portland, OR
- Vancouver, Canada
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Francisco Bay AreaJune
Pop-Up Library
- Greater Boston Area
- Portland, ME
- Toronto, Canada
- Philadelphia, PA
- Atlanta, GA
- Austin, TX
- London, England*October
Canada Water Library
co-presented with The Albany
and Southwark Council
21 Surrey Quays Rd.
London, SE16 - Melbourne, Australia*
Ciao,
Donna : )
