Cartoon Art Museum Event: Saturday, October 20, 2012, 6:00-8:30pm
Suggested donation $5
San Francisco: The opening reception for the Cartoon Art Museum exhibition Sketchtravel will take place Saturday, October 20, 2012, from 6:00-8:30pm. The suggested donation for this reception is $5, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Special guests include Pixar animator Ronnie del Carmen, illustrators Eli Harris and Erik Tiemens, and Sketchtravel project co-founder Dice Tsutsumi, with additional guests to be announced.
Tickets for this reception can be purchased through Guestlist: <http://guestlistapp.com/events/129189>
About Sketchtravel:
The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents Sketchtravel, a unique collaborative project bringing together 71 talented artists from around the world.
Acclaimed artists Dice Tsutsumi of Japan and Gerald Guerlais of France originated Sketchtravel as an international charity art project. A simple red sketchbook was passed from one artist to another, not unlike an Olympic torch, in an artistic relay through 12 countries over the course of four years. The end result was a beautiful sketchbook containing the personal visions of 71 exceptional illustrators, animators and comic book artists including Bill Plympton, James Jean, Rebecca Dautremer, Glen Keane, Frederick Back, and Studio Ghibli founder and animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. This sketchbook was sold at auction in 2011, raising funds for Room to Read, an international literacy non-profit, and helping to build five libraries in five third-world nations so far.
The Cartoon Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Sketchtravel, features full-sized reproductions of this material, painstakingly recreated as giclee prints to allow the highest quality presentation of the original Sketchtravel paintings and illustrations. Dice Tsutsumi and Gerald Guerlais are raising funds for the initial exhibition at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum through the crowdfunding resource Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sketchtravel/sketchtravel-museum-project Once the initial exhibition has been funded, the artists seek to raise money to bring the exhibition to additional venues in Japan and throughout the world. For more information on the Sketchtravel project, please visit their website: http://www.sketchtravel.com/