embroidery
New work made could be displayed above?
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Brooklyn Art Library
http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject
Sketchbook library project based in Brooklyn. Established in 2006:
"Together, thousands of creative people from around the world are forming a traveling library of artists' books"
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"Together, thousands of creative people from around the world are forming a traveling library of artists' books"
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Participate $25
What's included: Your blank sketchbook and info card, archiving in the Brooklyn Art Library, inclusion at every 2013 exhibition and support from our librarians all year long. "
A popup library grows in Oakland
The Tour Crew pulled into the Bay with a mission last week: Transform an empty storefront in downtown Oakland into a full-blown library of artists’ sketchbooks with just three days, three pairs of hands and an ocean of seriously strong coffee.
We’re really proud of the results — our once-empty room is now a hub of inspiration, complete with reading room, drawing table and nearly 7,500 sketchbooks from around the world. We feel lucky to share all of this creativity with the blossoming arts community here in Old Oakland, where our partners at Popuphood are busy incubating new local businesses and awakening street life in this diverse, historic neighborhood.
So, Oaklanders! San Franciscans! Alamedans! Berkeleyites! Cyborgs from Silicon Valley! Come and visit us at the Pop-Up Library from now until June 17th. We’d love to show you what our global community has been working on… along with hundreds of your neighbors, too.
The Pop-Up Library
483 9th St., Oakland, CA
- June 6-10, 1-5pm
- June 13-14, 1-5pm
- June 15, 6-10pm (Closing Party!)
- June 16-17 1-5pm
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It is a project about making sketchbooks. I would rather use the idea of recycling preexisitng sketchbooks and create from that through skill exchange. What is he functions of a sketchbook? As a research/planning tool, does it become obsolete once final art works are made?
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Work spaces:
Interesting use of desk lights- will furniture like this be needed?
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small shelves on wheels... and people
designing the library
After my tutorial today, Zoe suggested I think more strongly about the design of my library. Part of my worry is that the library won't be filled and so I will be building a structure has vacant spaces. However, in the Musahino Art University Library in Tokyo, many of their shelves are empty. When I look at the photographs of this, I do not feel a sense of absence or failure, but rather optimism, that the shelves will continue to be filled and the library will evolve and grow naturally over time. I think that this is helped by the functionality of all the spaces. The use of the top of empty shelves as benches or work tops. This gives them a sense of purpose regardless of whether they are holding books or not. Here is the Musahino Art University Library together with other found imagery of types of library set ups.
mobile library in Africa as an out-reach project
A mess, what I don't want but is closest to what the library currently is
arrangement of seating around table
Books
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Another mobile library. Interesting parasol to protect the books. Interesting how the sides open up to create a shop front rather than the visitor stepping inside the van.
Bright colours- eye catching or too babyish?
mobile library in Africa as an out-reach project
A mess, what I don't want but is closest to what the library currently is
arrangement of seating around table
Books .jpg)
Another mobile library. Interesting parasol to protect the books. Interesting how the sides open up to create a shop front rather than the visitor stepping inside the van.
Bright colours- eye catching or too babyish?
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