Spotted / Brooklyn / Brooklyn Art Library
Discovered this amazingly cool art library as I was wandering the streets of Williamsburg. It carries a small selection of art supplies, books, and vintage knick knacks, but what’s most impressive is that it’s home to 27,000+ handmade books also known as The Sketchbook Project. Anyone from around the globe can fill up the pages of a small sketchbook and submit it to be included in the library. Their work can be viewed by others who visit the permanent spot in Brooklyn, via the web, or when the project goes on a mobile tour throughout the US and Canada. You can search for books by theme, subject and location, then “check out” the books by signing up for one of their library cards.
I’m looking forward to submitting a book of my own and telling a bunch of my illustrator and designer friends to join in. And the mobile tour will be hitting SF this July!
Brooklyn Art Library + The Sketchbook Project
103A N 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
tel: 718 388 7941
www.brooklynartlibrary.com
* All images by me, Leslie.
What an amazing place and an awesome project! I wish I could teleport to the library right now! I definitely have to check that website out, since I am by no means near Brooklyn. (I love good ol’ California, but I am really regretting being here at this moment.)
This is awesome! I’m adding this to a list of places to visit – the husband (an illustrator) will love this!
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Another great thing is that you can purchase the blank sketchbook and “gift” it to him which will then be added to the collection when he’s done. It can be digitized so it’s also available online. i think over 1 million people have checked out books from this project.
I’ll be doing the same for one of my friends:)
I didn’t even click on the Project’s website, I was too busy looking at your beautiful photos. I just purchased two books as gifts – the husband will love it – and then we can visit his sketchbook when we visit NY, or maybe he will choose to have it included in the 2014 California tour.
You’re so sweet, Andrea:) Thank you!!! Let me know when our husband’s book gets submitted. I’ll surely check it out!