Unfortunately this exhibition of artists’ sketchbooks is long over, but it ran earlier this year at the Western Wyoming Community College Art Gallery in Rock Springs. It looks like it was a lovely display!

The pages below are by Leah Hardy:

Below are sketches by Florence Alfano McEwin, who was also the curator of the exhibit:

“Drawn Thought,” the title of a teaching art exhibit now on display in Rock Springs, is something of a misnomer. Many — maybe half — of the sketchbooks exhibited contain little to no drawing. In others, drawing might be only one component of the sketchbook. These books present an intimate spill of whatever catches the artist’s mind at that moment: a scribble line drawing of a horse, a ticket to a museum, a phone number, the landscape observed and remembered.

Read more: Drawn Thought: Artist Sketchbooks | WyoFile