Small Talks: Emma Lopes

Emma Lopes is an illustrator and artist based in Lisbon who’s most known for her creative practice that incorporates environmental activism into art-making. Through her Plastic Prayer Flags Project, Emma now leads community-based workshops and educational programs with students of all ages on repurposing discarded litter to create beautiful works of art

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Small Talks: Shruti Sharma

Shruti Sharma is an illustrator specializing in pattern design, comics, and portraiture. Originally from Mumbai, India, Shruti now calls California home after completing her MFA in Illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art and she continues to draw and paint in her eye-catching chromatic style.

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Small Talks: Sara Peterman

Sara Peterman is a textile artist and illustrator based in St. Petersburg. Now a board member of Brooklyn Art Library, Sara has helped take the collection on tour, assisted with events and exhibitions in the Library’s original space in Georgia, and has lent her eye for creative design to numerous projects and initiatives throughout the Sketchbook Project’s 15-year history.

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Small Talks: Darci Lenker

Darci Lenker is an embroidery artist who creates vibrant paintings with just a needle and thread! Based in Norman, Oklahoma, Lenker’s work spans miniatures and dolls, in a playful intersection of two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional materials.

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Small Talks: Toko Hosoya

Toko Hosoya is an illustrator, sculptor, and animation artist born in Japan and currently living in Toronto. A prolific artist from a young age, Hosoya’s unique art style is rich with whimsical characters, experiments in geometric shape and intricate line-work, and she’s not afraid to dabble in new materials and mediums, like bronze casting, to tell fantastical stories and share her observations.

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Small Talks: Erin McGean

Erin McGean is a collage artist based in Oakville, Ontario. McGean’s eye-catching style of collage, which merges female bodies with ecological imagery, produces beautiful, empowering vignettes of femininity in the natural world.

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Small Talks: Janna Maria Vallee

Janna Vallee is the founder of Everlea Yarn, dyeing merino wool sourced from New Zealand using natural plant dyes. Based in British Columbia, Janna has become a prolific textile artist, constructing elegant weavings and tapestries with a keen attention to color and geometric form.

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BAL x Brooklyn Book Crawl

In honor of Independent Bookstore Day’s virtual celebration, we’re teaming up with indie bookstores across Brooklyn to showcase the artist books and guides we have here at Brooklyn Art Library. Some touch on New York City history, others are made for (and by!) participants in the Sketchbook Projects, and all will be great resources to spark your creativity!

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