Pandemic In Pictures
By Betsy Iler, Editor of Lake Magazine. January 11, 2021 (A Story From Lake Magazine)
Though unintentionally at first, Birmingham’s Louise McPhillips captured the story of the coronavirus pandemic at Lake Martin through a Christmas gift presented to her by her son, a filmmaker in Los Angeles.
“It was a sketchbook from The Sketchbook Project,” McPhillips said.
Founded in 2006 by two artists in Atlanta, The Sketchbook Project now has grown to include a collection of more than 45,000 sketchbooks, which are housed at the Brooklyn Art Library in Williamsburg, New York. Participants in the project purchase a 16-page 5-inch by 7-inch sketchbook from the library, and over the course of six months or so, they draw on its pages; and then, return the sketchbook to the library for cataloging and digitization. The public is invited to stroll into the library and view the renderings, some of which also are available for viewing at the library’s website.
