{"id":52338,"date":"2014-10-13T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=52338"},"modified":"2014-10-13T00:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T07:09:42","slug":"the-sketchbook-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52338","title":{"rendered":"The Sketchbook Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re an aspiring artist of any sort, your creative muse is calling, and you feel like sharing, then check out the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketchbookproject.com\/libraries\"> Sketchbook Project<\/a>. Or, if you&#8217;d like to be an aspiring artist, writer, etc. and need a creative muse, check out the Sketchbook Project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52339 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/header-03ff63a648c95b128a8cbb012c16706d-e1412107500142.jpg\" alt=\"header-03ff63a648c95b128a8cbb012c16706d\" width=\"500\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every year since 2006, founders Steven Peterman and Shane Zucker have put out a submission call, encouraging anyone feeling creative to make their mark by filling a 32-page blank sketchbook with their unique artistic perspectives. When returned to project headquarters by the deadline, these sketchbooks (recently totaling more than 7,000) travel in a custom trailer to various locations in North America for interactive exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-52340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/mobile-library-ee0588e0860e017cfdacd4311c3a5570.jpg\" alt=\"mobile-library-ee0588e0860e017cfdacd4311c3a5570\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the books aren\u2019t on the road, they reside at the Brooklyn Art Library, the permanent home to the complete collection. Since its inception, over 70,000 participants from 135 countries have contributed to the Sketchbook Project and each of those books has a space on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-52341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/brooklyn-art-library-6d4970292b752e1b74492440115fe13c.jpg\" alt=\"brooklyn-art-library-6d4970292b752e1b74492440115fe13c\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the library can spend an afternoon browsing the creative works of other contributors, or purchase a sketchbook on site and get busy making their own contribution.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an aspiring artist of any sort, your creative muse is calling, and you feel like sharing, then check out the Sketchbook Project. Or, if you&#8217;d like to be an aspiring artist, writer, etc. and need a creative muse, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glitterati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}