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Letters To Home

What would you say to your childhood home?

It's been awhile, and the house you grew up in is starting to wonder about you... If your childhood home could hear you, what would you say? It might have been an apartment in the big city, a farmhouse in the country, or a cabin in the woods — there's a place from your past that will stay with you forever. Letters to Home is a community art project that asks creative people like you to write a letter to your childhood home. Share an epic backyard adventure, ask a lingering question, or reveal a long-kept secret — we'll transform our storefront exhibition space into a mailbox from the past. Every letter will be added to the Digital Library and archived in a boxed anthology that will join us on the 2012 Sketchbook Project Tour.

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  • March 01, 2012

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  • 500/500

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  • March 15, 2012

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  • Letters should be kept to one page and only one side of the paper so that we can hang it on the wall.
  • Letters must be 7"H x 5" W to be included in the exhibition.
  • Letters smaller or larger than the required size will not be exhibited.
  • All letters will be included in the Brooklyn exhibition and exhibited on the World Tour.
  • Please write your letter by hand! Computer printouts will not be accepted.
  • Feel free to include drawings or other images as part of your letter.
  • If you'd like to avoid creasing, please mail your letter unfolded in a larger envelope.
  • Please print your name clearly on the back of your letter so you can receive credit for your work.
  • Please note that submissions will not be returned.
  • Postmark your letter by March 15th to:
    ℅ Letters to Home
    Brooklyn Archives
    355 Bedford Ave.
    Brooklyn, NY 11211

Letters to Home is an exhibition created by hundreds of strangers from around the world. Each participant contributes a single letter addressed to a childhood home, reanimating these structures from the past and filling them in on our current lives. The resulting exhibition will transform the Brooklyn Art Library by covering the walls in handwritten memories — each page addressed to a different home. After the Brooklyn opening, every letter contributed to the project will be put together in an Anthology of Letters to Home and exhibited across the globe as part of the 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour.

Exhibition

April 5th, 2012

Brooklyn Art Library

103A N. 3rd St

Brooklyn, NY 11249

The 10 x 10 Series is proudly presented by The Self-Portrait Project. Every artist who contributes to The Self-Portrait Project is helping to support the 10 x 10 Series and ensuring that Art House will continue to produce free community art projects.