Over the course of 2013, The Sketchbook Project Tour will visit 8 cities on a cross-country journey that begins in New York at the Brooklyn Art Library, our storefront exhibition space and home to our permanent collection of more than 22,000 sketchbooks. This exhibition is the start of a unique, interactive installation that draws thousands of participants. We invite people of all backgrounds to explore and participate in the world’s largest library of sketchbooks, generating a groundswell of creative energy in communities around the world and among more than a million visitors online.

The Sketchbook Project is an interactive mobile library of artist’s sketchbooks contributed by creative people from across the globe. We encourage artists from diverse backgrounds, whether they are working artists, full-time parents, busy professionals, children or students to share their process with each other and our creative community. Participants sign up in person or online to receive a blank sketchbook, then fill it with their most amazing, inspired ideas and mail it back. The books are then cataloged in the Brooklyn Art Library’s permanent collection and exhibited at venues around the country in our Mobile Library, a custom fitted art exhibition on wheels.

Further tour stops: Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Portland (OR), San Francisco, and Los Angeles. See more details here: www.sketchbookproject.com

The Sketchbook Project is open for submissions. Please visit us online for details:http://www.sketchbookproject.com.

About Art House Co-op
Art House is an independent, Brooklyn-based company that organizes global, collaborative art projects. Our flagship endeavor is the Sketchbook Project: an evolving library that features more than 22,000 artists’ books contributed by creative people from over 130 countries. We operate the Brooklyn Art Library, our storefront exhibition space in the heart of Williamsburg, as a home for all of our projects.

Art House began in 2006 in Atlanta, GA and moved to New York City in 2009. Since that time, our small organization has grown into a worldwide community of more than 70,000 artists. By focusing on the intersection of hands-on art making and new technology, Art House nurtures community- supported art projects that harness the power of the virtual world to share inspiration in the real world.