Sketch Mob is a public art activity where dozens create a collective portrait of a landscape during the day that is enjoyed as a slide show that evening,

The first Flash Sketch Mob in June 2012, assigned 100 artists to positions 12 paces apart along South Broadway in Nyack, NY.

Artists of all ages and skill levels, included three generations of several families oohed and ahhed as the collective perspective of a community emerged as the images were projected on the sign of the movie.

Since then, a second Flash Sketch Mob captured Nyack’s Main Street in 2015. Flash Sketch Mobs have been held at a farmers market, summer camp, elementary school, on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center and the River Hook Preserve in Upp

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About the artist behind the Sketch Mob

Bill Batson has been making art and organizing in communities around the world his whole life. From Brooklyn, to Boston, to South Africa, Bill has been chronicling the world around him and participating in civic engagement projects. The Sketch Mob encompasses both impulses.