Almost one whole year ago in April, the Hamden Department of Arts and Culture and the Hamden Public Library asked Hamden residents to record their daily, pandemic-life experiences in any artistic or creative way they could think of. The Hamden Historic Sketchbook project, inspired by the real Sketchbook Project of Brooklyn, is a collection of artist sketchbooks by Hamden residents of all ages, documenting the collective joys, sorrows, astonishments and hopes of a community throughout a shared, global experience.
Digital copies of the sketchbooks can be viewed online at https://www.hamden.com/708/The-Hamden-Historic-Sketchbook-Project. Original copies of the sketchbooks are part of the Hamden Public Library collection.