After 15 years of running The Sketchbook Project, we've accumulated over 50,000 sketchbooks that live in our permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library. Our collection embodies the age old expression, "Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover!" Each kraft colored book that you pull down holds a story that is as unique as the individual. Part of the magic of our library is that you never know just what you'll find as you explore the books throughout our shelves.
As employees of Brooklyn Art Library, our days are consumed with the collection. While our daily lives are surrounded by interacting with and preserving The Sketchbook Project, each book is only a glimpse of an artist's experience frozen in time. It often makes us wonder...What is the impact of our project? Do our participants remember it often or is it something they send off and never think about again? Where are they now and how has their work evolved or lives changed after this experience?
These questions sparked our Founder and Managing Director, Steven Peterman and Associate Creative Director, Autumn Farina to explore the collection through getting to know the artists behind these stories. Like our collection, this podcast is versatile! Each episode features participants from our community as we discover the stories behind their books through different themes, formats and topics.
We hope you embark on this journey with us and become just as inspired as we are by the stories that unfold through each episode. Together, we will learn more about the collection from the eyes of the creators themselves and unveil what was really going on when they shared their story with The Sketchbook Project.
Dominic Stevenson
Ditsy Dice
Sandy DeWald - Museum Nerd & Off-the-Beaten-Path Traveler
Music Alchemy Radio
James Navé
Various
National Museums NI
Matthew C. Winner
Russell Library
Moe Kafer
Sonya Dixon
Kunst Museum Winterthur
University of Cambridge Museums
Ben Holden
KidLit RADIO
Kristopher Joe Vandiver
SALA Festival
Women in the Arts, Inc.
Orange County Library System
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
iBookBinding
David Young
Jessamine County Public Library
Ellie Royce
The Hess Collection
Shawn Waggoner
Loyal Books
Julia Rhinelander
V&A Dundee
Amy Tsilemanis
Davide Groppi
Robin Fuller
Andy Grace Hayes
Sheppard Library, Middlesex University London.
Robert Andriessen
Tamar Avishai
None
Linda Tate
Roby
MabryOnline.org
None
Various
Ben Carter
Chip Freund
Robert Andriessen
Francis Chouquet
Scottcast
Nantucket Atheneum
None
Steel Pixel Studios
National Academy of Design
Claire Handscombe
Frank Roche
Richfield Branch Library
Jakarta Good Guide
Aspen Art Museum
seven sisters group
Carol Cram
Floorr Magazine
Susan Weeks
Royal Literary Fund
Icelandic Art Center
VernissageTV
Simon Brooks
Claire Tacon
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Atelier: the podcast
David Richard Gallery: David Eichholtz and Richard Barger
Pakistani Salwar Kameez
Carol McQuaid
Research and Information Services
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
Why Make
Kaye Janet
BBC World Service
aaklit taneja
UCTV
Wymondham and Attleborough Talking Newspaper
Youth Expressions
Vickie Howell
Syne Mitchell
UCTV
Jonathan Heath
CSaun The Poet
Sekolah Victory Plus Library and Media Centre
Brannon Kunkel
Emily Moler
Remo Hegglin
LB School & Library
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament
Three Scapes
Jozsef Horvath
Las Musas
Sharon Lynch
Dennis Dalelio
Art of the Rural
Plein Air Easton
Amy Beecher
Erika b Hess