“You probably do sketchbooks and you stick ‘em in your closet and you never look at them again,” said Steven Peterman about The Sketchbook Project, an exhibit that opened Saturday in Williamsburg, and which showcases tens of thousands of art notebooks sent in by participants all over the world. “Why can’t we be your closet?” The idea behind the Sketchbook Project is simple. Sign up online, pick a theme, and a notebook is sent to you within 48 hours. Fill its pages with drawings, designs, doodles, watercolors, or anything you want, as long as it doesn’t change the size and shape of the original notebook when closed and as long as you send it in by the deadline.
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