The Sketchbook Project Volume 4: Library

Be one of the founding contributors to The Sketchbook Library by signing up to receive a sketchbook, filling it up with art, and sending it back.

Your sketchbook will be among thousands of others that were made by artists from all over the world.

Visitors will receive library cards and be able to view the books at exhibitions around the country.

The goal of the project is to create a giant collective of sketchbooks from around the globe and make it accessible to everyone.

Project overview

After you sign up to participate in the project, we'll mail you a package containing a Moleskine sketchbook with a barcode on it, a randomly picked theme to create your book around, and detailed instructions about the project. Themes

To give visitors to the library variety and to aid in choosing what to look at, we are assigning each person a theme for their book. Themes are assigned at random upon signing up and are pulled out of a list of 30 different themes.

The Exhibitions and Permanent Collection

When we receive everyone's sketchbooks back, we will be taking the collection on a tour around the United States to select galleries and venues. Everyone who sends their book back to us will be included in the collection and taken on tour.

In addition to the touring exhibitions, the ultimate goal of the project is to create a permanent library for which the sketchbook collection can be on display. We are anticipating the opening of the permanent sketchbook library location in 2010.