Local artists Michelle Loubert and Maria Parrella-Ilaria will have their work published in a limited edition book series and on display in the Brooklyn Art Library.
The New York-based Brooklyn Art Library has developed a unique method of uniting and promoting a community of artists and creative people from all around the globe in the form of the Sketchbook Project.
Each artist buys into this project, for a minor fee, which will showcase up to 5,000 artists from around the globe in a published Limited Edition art book series.
Artists are supplied with a blank Sketchbook that is to be completed and returned to the Art House Co-op which not only publishes the materials but proudly displays the original book in the Brooklyn Art Library.
As stated on the Art House Co-op website: “Every contributor to the Sketchbook Project Limited Edition Vol. 1 will be included in a series of art books documenting the project. Together, the series will provide insight into the imagination and process of each artist participating in the project.”
The book series is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2012.
Loubert and Parrella-Ilaria are among 5,000 participants from 94 different countries.
They stumbled upon an online ad for the project by chance and since then have been committed to filling their individual books with unique representations of their art.
Loubert, being a fibre artist, has chosen the theme and medium of thread and surface.
“Since a sketchbook is a place to explore and work out ideas and techniques, I plan to use this as an opportunity to draw with thread like a quilter but mostly to brainstorm how thread is part of our lives in figurative ways such as discussion threads on forums online and also literally like how thread is woven together to create fabric,” she said.
But this project isn’t without its struggles.
Artists much dedicate much time to these books under a short deadline.
“I’m someone who needs a deadline to shoot for in order to focus on completing any given project,” says Parrella-Ilaria. “With the Sketchbook Project, not only is there a deadline but the work physically leaves my hands/my studio and gets to exist outside of my immediate environment. I like that. And I like the idea of the work traveling when I can't and being archived in the Co-op's Art Library in Brooklyn.”
Learn more about their work by visiting www.heartstring-michelleloubert.blogspot.com and www.openartstudios.ca
Learn more about the 2012 Sketchbook Project at www.arthousecoop.com
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