Calling all artists / illustrators.
The Brooklyn Art Library is in it’s fifth year of an amazing scheme.
They say ‘ it’s like a concert tour but with sketchbooks’ and I think it’s one of the best ways
that a library can drum up new business in this present climate.
They are inviting artists, illustrators, designers etc to participate in a arts project
where you sign up and pay $28 (£18 inc postage) to buy a moleskin sketchbook from them.
You need to do this before Oct 31st . Then you simply choose from one of their theme topics,
listed on their site and fill the book with your drawings, returning it by January 15th 2011.
They will attach a bar code to it and your book will take part in a tour around different states
of America and people will be able to take it out to look at ( like a regular book)
and you can also keep a track on where in the country it is at any one time…. pure genius !
Here are the tour dates and places your book will visit.
I’ve signed up already, get your entries in quickly here.
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what a great idea ! I’m going to try…might not have the time but its worth a go. What topic did you pick ? I chose ‘you’d be home by now’….
Mmmmmm I thinks u r a secret agent for this organisation ……. I chose “adhere 2 u ” waiting 2 hear your choice ….did you choose on line 2 ?
Great to hear you gals are giving it a go too, I’d love to see some photos of your images once you get the moleskins, so I can feature the project on my blog… if you’ll let me.
I chose Secret Codes as my choice, I’ve a few ideas already, watch this space…. perhaps Sarahlou was right with the secret agent !
Why only 6 months?
What happens to the sketchbooks at the end of that time?
You also have the option to pay a little extra and have your book digitised
so that it’s available to view online. After 6 months it looks like the books are placed into the
Brooklyn Art Libraries permanent collection. They’re doing this scheme every year now
so I guess they need sometime to prepare for the next artistic intake