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Art House Sketchbook Event!!
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 09:56AM 
Spread from My Arthouse sketchbook click HERE (or scroll down) to see itThe Arthouse Sketchbook Brooklyn event was this past Friday on the last day of school before our Spring break. And what a day that was...but that's another story. It was a beautiful way to end the day as we (my husband fellow artist Gregg Emery and I) accompanied our student Colin (who is also an artist featured in the sketchbook event) to the Brooklyn opening by public transportation from New Jersey. At the last moment, we were joined by two of our other art students, Ji Min and Nicole. What an adventure it was to take the bus, subway and walk through Brooklyn's warehouse district with our students in such a spontaneous, unplanned and informal trip.
All of us at 175th Train Station
The ArtHouse Event was at 3rd Ward in BrooklynThe Arthouse Event was sponsored by 3rd Ward Creative Space in Brooklyn, NY. 3rd ward is an amazing space with art facilities from wood to computer center available for use by the public. There were over 2500 international participants in the sketchbook event. When we arrived there was already a major crowd spilling out onto the street, music blaring, and sketchbooks galore being perused.
Our three students checking out sketchbooks
folks checking out Colin's sketchbookAs soon as we realized how the sketchbooks were being displayed - simply laid out to be handled and traded we knew finding any of our own would be like finding a needle in a haystack, but we tried anyway. By a stroke of luck, Colin immediately spotted some folks checking out his sketchbook! He was overjoyed as they were commenting on how much they loved it!!
Colin peeking through an uber-creative sketchbook
My sweet cousins, Tai Tai and Kas came to the show too! ready to check out some art!
Another amazingly creative sketchbook!
We met up with some co-workers and alumni (students of ours from 1999 and 2000!)
There were so many varied responses to the Everyone I know theme...it was mesmerizing!
Sketchbook spread by artist Duncan Reid - my favorite sketchbook of the night.So thanks for tagging along to our Art house sketchbook event in Brooklyn! Hope you are as inspired as we were when we left...we were so hungry we got off the subway in Manhattan and had some Gray's Papaya before heading back up to Jersey!