The Sketchbook Project

BROOKLYN ART LIBRARY

Our reference library in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. The Brooklyn Art Library has 27,555 sketchbooks and counting.

THE DIGITAL LIBRARY

The Digital Library is an online interactive catalog of 13,763 digitized sketchbooks. Check them out!

THE MOBILE LIBRARY

Our Mobile Library travels the country year around with 4,500 sketchbooks in tow. Join us at our next stop in: Baltimore, MD @ Upton Edible Garden with GRO1000. Follow along with us!

THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT

The Sketchbook Project is a traveling library of artists' sketchbooks. Anyone, anywhere is encouraged to participate. Find out more!

Creating Interactive Crowd-Sourced Art Projects Since 2006.

ART PROJECTS

We create interactive art projects that are open to everyone. Join one!

THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT GEAR

Look good while working on your sketchbook. Check out our merch page

THE SUMMER TOUR

We are taking the Mobile Library out on a 30+ city tour around North America. Follow along!

2014 SKETCHBOOK PROJECT

Join the 2014 Sketchbook Project and have your sketchbook tour the country! Participate

KEEP IN TOUCH:

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Brooklyn / Austin / Houston / Tempe
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Big boots, big hats and big sketchbooks. We’ll be taking this route on two weeks through the South West y’all.

WHEN: Spring 2014 | Spots Filled: 454/2000
POSTMARK DEADLINE: 1/15/2014

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Brooklyn / New Orleans / Atlanta / Orlando / Richmond
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This two-week route is headed south from New York to New Orleans…it’s the region where The Sketchbook Project began.

WHEN: Spring 2014 | Spots Filled: 690/2000
POSTMARK DEADLINE: 1/15/2014

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Brooklyn / Portland / Seattle / Vancouver
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These sketchbooks will be journeying far from their Brooklyn home to spend two weeks driving through the lush landscape of the Pacific North West.

WHEN: Summer 2014 | Spots Filled: 532/2000
POSTMARK DEADLINE: 1/15/2014

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Brooklyn / Manhattan / Toronto / Portland, ME / Philadelphia
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We're starting from our home base in New York to venture north on a route that will take us across country borders.

WHEN: Summer 2014 | Spots Filled: 1000/2000
POSTMARK DEADLINE: 1/15/2014

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Brooklyn / Minneapolis / Chicago / Madison
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The Mobile Library will have plenty of open road as we take a two week road trip through Big Sky country and America's Heartland.

WHEN: Summer 2014 | Spots Filled: 591/2000
POSTMARK DEADLINE: 1/15/2014

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Brooklyn / Providence / Portland / Montreal
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The Mystery Maps Tour asks you to make original maps of real and imagined places. Submit your book to our first collection of atlases.

WHEN: Summer 2013 | Spots Filled: 143/1000

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Brooklyn / Baltimore / Richmond / Knoxville / Nashville
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The How To Tour asks you to create step-by-step tutorials from the mundane to the amazing. Contribute to our first practical collection of manuals.

WHEN: Summer 2013 | Spots Filled: 124/1000

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Brooklyn / Memphis / St. Louis / Indianapolis
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The Fill Me With Tour is asking for unique submissions of stories, observations…and, well bullshit. Stuff that book full!

WHEN: Summer 2013 | Spots Filled: 315/1000

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Brooklyn / Boulder / Santa Fe / Wichita
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The Capes, Masks and Tights Tour asks participants to use the sketchbook to create truly extraordinary stories in comic or graphic novel format.

WHEN: Fall 2013 | Spots Filled: 122/2500

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Brooklyn / Milwaukee / Minneapolis / Rapid City
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The 1,703-Miles and Back Tour asks, “What is it about road trips?” Maybe it’s a sense of freedom and anticipation of ending up in new place.

WHEN: Fall 2013 | Spots Filled: 195/2500

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Brooklyn / Kansas City / Louisville / Columbus / Pittsburgh
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The Write, Right When You Get There Tour asks visual artists and writers to combine their thoughts on memory, permanence and nostalgia to create a unique traveling exhibition.

WHEN: Fall 2013 | Spots Filled: 209/2500