Sketches at Damien Franco dot Com

Sketches has made a brief appearance at Damien Franco dot Com, the "Ramblings of an emerging contemporary art photographer in West Texas"! Read about Sketches here, but explore the site a little bit, too. (And don't miss the slideshow.)

Sketches: Organizing Arts

Just as an artist must defer to his or her idea, the curator of an exhibition must defer to the art. And, for the same reasons that an artist's sketches, revisions, and failures don't hang on the wall next to the finished project, a curator's notebooks, memos, and emails should remain behind the scenes.

The Sketchbook illustrates what ideas look like when they are forming. We have published this book with the hope that arts administrators of all kinds can pick it up, flip through its pages and become inspired. We are publishing this book so that non-arts administrators can see the mess behind the Wizard of Oz. This communal collection of "sketches" will pass ideas for exhibitions, organizational structures, or academic projects between colleagues and strangers in an effort to connect people and expand thinking on arts administration.

The Sketchbook is published in a limited edition of 500 hand-bound copies with a hand-printed cover by artist Mat Daly. It is also available in a cheaper, no frills edition. Both can be found, as usual, at our catalogue.