Urban Sketchers: Gabi Campanario Steps Down

A major statement past times Gabi Campanario today - he's stepping downward from the Board of Urban Sketchers.

Dear swain urban sketchers,

Since setting upwards the Urban Sketchers nonprofit inward 2009, I've been quite involved alongside most operational aspects of the organization, from filing authorities forms as well as dealing alongside banking company accounts to setting upwards blogs, organizing events as well as recruiting volunteers.

As Urban Sketchers has grown as well as thrived, many others receive got contributed their fourth dimension as well as efforts, as well as we've built a company as well as sustainable nonprofit. That degree of shared commitment as well as belief inward our mission is why I experience comfortable that we've reached the signal inward our natural development for the founder to accept the dorsum seat. After my term expires inward December, I'll no longer live role of the Executive Board.

But I'm non wandering off likewise far. I receive got offered to serve on the Advisory Board as well as conception to maintain contributing equally a weblog editor as well as correspondent.

I'm really proud of the function nosotros exercise equally a nonprofit, organizing an exhilarating international Symposium every year, promoting workshops as well as publishing blogs.

It makes a deviation inward the agency people regard the the world as well as connect alongside each other.

I listen it all the time: "Urban Sketchers has changed my life!" people tell me. And I respond the same way: "It has changed mine, too!"

Gratefully as well as respectfully yours,

gabi

Gabi Campanario has given so really much inward price of fourth dimension as well as endeavour to Urban Sketchers that it seems remiss non to examine as well as grade this alter inward some way.

Below I've got a timeline - as well as a few images as well as links - which those of y'all who came to Urban Sketchers belatedly inward the 24-hour interval may good detect interesting, patch the balance of us reverberate on only how long it has been since Gabi had a really proficient idea!

Urban Sketchers Timeline - a Gabi perspective

• 2007: Gabi begins the Urban Sketchers storey - as well as creates a Flickr grouping for those interested inward urban sketching.  This is the master group.

In 2007, a global community of urban sketchers began to cast when Seattle-based journalist as well as illustrator Gabriel Campanario created an online forum “for all sketchers out in that location who dearest to describe the cities where they alive as well as visit, from the window of their homes, from a cafe, at a park, standing past times a street corner... ever on location, non from photos or memory.”  Our history

•  2008: The Urban Sketchers weblog was gear upwards past times Gabi - who invited others to join. I experience really privileged to tell I was ane of the master 100 who joined Urban Sketchers inward the really early on days. Here's a link to Gabi's introduction equally a correspondent - Meet the correspondents: SEATTLE > Gabi Campanario - dated 29th Oct 2008. (The next 24-hour interval I was introducing myself!)

• 2009: Urban Sketchers was incorporated equally a nonprofit inward the solid reason of Washington (USA) on Dec. 6, 2009. Earlier inward the year, Gabi started to write as well as illustrate Seattle inward May 2009 as well as really many novel groups inward unlike locations to a greater extent than or less the the world experienced "lift off" inward 2009 initially via a Flickr grouping as well as and then incorporating a blog.  Here's Gabi on the argue why local groups are important

Since launching Welcome to USk Seattle)

Just some of the Urban Sketchers Groups on Flickr
right click this link as well as opened upwards inward a novel tab to regard more

• In 2009 I also awarded Urban Sketchers the The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup as role of the Making Awards - because it had kicking the bucket what I called a 'landmark blog' during the course of teaching of 2009. I also recorded a few statistics inward my weblog post 

Here are some of the features of Urban Sketchers inward belatedly 2009:

• it has 3,896 readers
• hundreds of contributors from 6 continents
• thousands see daily for inspiration or to locomote vicariously
• it has been featured inward magazines (MyMidwest, Anima(ls) as well as The Artist's Magazine) as well as newspapers (Público inward Portugal, La Repubblica inward Italia as well as The Bangkok Post inward Thailand) across the world
• it has an active Flickr group
• 1,543 followers on Twitter
• and 2,954 fans on its Facebook fan page

• 2010: The yr of the firstly Urban Sketchers Symposium in Portland Oregon. This was a major maiden as well as I guess those organising it wondered how many people powerfulness jet inward from all over the world. I don't mean value they were disappointed!

Urban Sketchers Symposium - Portland Oregon - 31 July 2010 (the terminal day)

• 2011: Urban Sketchers gained recognition equally a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization past times the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America on Feb. 16, 2011. 
• Later inward the year, Urban Sketchers embraced international when the American sketchers flew to Portugal for the mo symposium - Lisbon 2011. 
• For Gabi, 2011 would receive got been the yr inward which he created, wrote as well as compiled The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World  - alongside contributions past times many urban sketchers from many unlike countries. Nobody should ever under-estimate what a landmark publication this was - when it published at the commencement of....

Front covert of The Art of Urban Sketching

• 2012: The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World was published inward Feb 2012 - as well as sold out inside four weeks! It was at ane time reprinted as well as sold out ane time to a greater extent than inside weeks inward the USA. Prior to publication it had also secured the #10 spot inward the overstep 100 books inward the Arts as well as Design Category on Amazon(which at the fourth dimension included music) - on the forcefulness of pre-orders alone. Its sales as well as popularity for a while were only express past times how fast a majority could live printed as well as distributed. It was #1 on Amazon for a very, really long while. 
• Even patch out of stock it was maintaining a overstep x spot inward Amazon categories for painting, drawing as well as other media on the forcefulness of the orders beingness placed. 
• I was rating fine art books at the fourth dimension as well as this book held the overstep spot for Best New Art Book - menses - for the firstly one-half of 2012 - helped no incertitude past times the majority launch inward London that nosotros gave it inward May! 
• It at nowadays has 125 reviews on Amazon.com - as well as a lot of us receive got written books for publishers who looked at the absolutely staggering performance of this majority - as well as jumped on the bandwagon only equally presently equally they could!  
• Urban sketching books maintain to exercise good to a greater extent than or less the the world - alongside 3 written past times U.K. urban sketchers (James Hobbs, then me as well as of late Simone Ridyard) as well as 2 to a greater extent than due out really presently (by Pete Scully as well as Lynne Chapman) - as well as I've got a sketch inward the latter!
• On a personal note, 2012 was the calendar month nosotros got serious nearly a grouping for urban sketching inward the U.K. as well as Feb 2012 was the calendar month I gear upwards the weblog for Urban Sketchers London...
• Plus in that location was a symposium inward Santo Domingo - Santo Domingo 2012

Images of some the legacy of the urban sketching displace created past times Gabi Campanario

• 2013: Gabi had a solo exhibition of his sketches between Dec 2013 as well as May 2014 at the Seattle Museum of History as well as Industry - which got thousands of visitors. In addition:
• Urban Sketchers got a Wikipedia page (which really needs an editor to accept it inward manus as well as whip it into shape - but I guess we've all been rather busy developing Urban Sketchers!)  
• It also had a symposium in Barcelona 2013 and....
• (I'm guessing) Quarry Books commissioned Gabi to write 2 to a greater extent than books nearly Urban Sketching!

• 2014: Gabi has 2 novel books published inward 2014 - The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture as well as Cityscapes: Tips as well as Techniques for Drawing on Location inward Nov as well as The Urban Sketching Handbook: People as well as Motion: Tips as well as Techniques for Drawing on Location inward December. 
• The symposium was inward a really unlike identify - in his weblog post service nearly visiting Paraty. 2014 was a flake of a blur for me equally I had my caput downward for a lot of the fourth dimension writing my majority nearly sketching as well as rounding upwards drawings from all over the world! 

A hobby is non a hobby whatever to a greater extent than when it becomes your chore (note from ane of Gabi's sketches inward Paraty)

• 2015: Gabi steps downward from beingness a Board Member of Urban Sketchers on 28 September 2015.  Here's a few of the comments on the Facebook announcement.

Jim Bumgarner You receive got changed the world, Gabi, as well as it is a ameliorate identify because of you. Thank you.

Chantal Vincent Thanks for all that y'all receive got done Gabi! What an amazing displace you've instigated - connecting so many people as well as helping to enrich their lives as well as appreciate their surroundings. Enjoy your novel role.

Virginia Hein Gabi, it's the sign of a salubrious arrangement when the founder tin displace measuring away from the helm confident that it volition maintain to thrive. I'm to a greater extent than grateful than I tin displace tell for what y'all started as well as sustained alongside Urban Sketchers, since I'm ane of the many who tin displace really tell it has changed my life. I'm so glad likewise that I lastly got to come across y'all inward Singapore!

Isabelle Laliberté Gabi, muchísimas gracias for creating a (constantly expanding) infinite for people to discover, prepare as well as nurture their creativity. I retrieve beingness astounded inward Lisbon: I was surrounded past times people who all liked to exercise what I do...draw! You've had a huge touching on many people's lives past times sharing your talent as well as enthusiasm inward such a form way, give thank y'all you for everything, as well as I promise to regard y'all at some other symposium soon. Un abrazo may fuerte. Xx

Suhita Shirodkar Thank y'all for everything you've done as well as everything that's come upwards for so many of us inward this community out of what y'all started as well as nurtured. But it's difficult to fifty-fifty position how much of a deviation it's made into words, so give thank y'all you for everything.

This is my agency of thanking Gabi for creating a marvellous maiden which has hugely raised the profile of sketching, made an enormous huge deviation to so many people's lives - as well as gave me the chance to write a majority nearly sketching - something I'd ever wanted to do. :)

I told Gabi I was going to write a post service - but didn't inquire him for whatever assist - so whatever errors inward this post service are completely downward to me. Help alongside correcting them is most welcome!

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