Sketchbook Project 2012: Stitches and Folds
I decided again this year to participate in the Sketchbook Project 2012, the main project out of many run by the Art House Co-op based at The Brooklyn Art Library in New York. This year nearly 20,000 of sketchbooks will be exhibited in 14 cities across North America, and for the first time this year, in London for contributors from Europe and in Melbourne if the artist resides in Australia.
For the details of the Project Overview, see the post about last year’s Fiction Sketchbook. The only difference between this and the fiction one is that with this project, you did not have to tell the story in text. You are free to develop your theme.
The theme I picked this time is Stitches and Folds. The entire sketchbook was folded and stitched. I folded the pages inwards, starting from the middle of the sketchbook, with the first two pages folded so that the outer edges met the gutter. I then folded each page, with the size of each fold decreasing in equal increments towards each end of the book. I then added various papers under each fold, stitching folds and papers together each time with a different kind of stitch and at a random pace, using threads varying in thickness and colour.
For images of all other pages of this Sketchbook Project, click Flickr. Here are some examples.
The tour starts in April, and we shall welcome the sketchbooks in London this October.
Brooklyn, NY Apr 14–30Brooklyn Art Library
103A N. 3rd St
Brooklyn, NY 11249 Chicago, IL May 3–5 Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL 60615 Portland, OR May 11–13 The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel 1022 SW Stark St Portland, OR Vancouver, Canada May 15–16 W2 Media Cafe 111 W Hastings St. Vancouver, BC Los Angeles, CA May 24–26 iam8bit 2147 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Bay Area Jun Pop-Up Library Greater Boston Area Jul 6–8 LynnArts 25 Exchange Street Lynn, MA Portland, ME Jul 11–14 SPACE Gallery 538 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Toronto, Canada Jul 18–22 The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. W Toronto, ON Philadelphia, PA Aug 23–25 The Painted Bride co-presented with InLiquid 230 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Atlanta, GA Aug 29–Sep 1 MASS Collective 364 Nelson St. SW Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Sep 8–16 Co-Lab Project Space 613 Allen St. Austin, TX London, England Oct Canada Water Library co-presented with The Albany and Southwark Council 21 Surrey Quays Rd. London, SE16 Melbourne, Australia Nov 10–21 NGV Studio Federation Square Russell & Flinders Sts Melbourne
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