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

Over the years, hundreds of artists of all ages and skill levels, including three generations of several families have oohed and aahed as the collective perspective of a community emerges as the day’s work is projected on the side of a building.

Sketch Mob’s have gone on to capture Nyack’s Main Street in 2015. the Nyack Farmers Market in 2016, Rockland Center for the Arts’ summer camp in 2018, Nyack Liberty Elementary School and Blue Rock School in 2020, the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center in 2024 and the River Hook Preserve in Upper Nyack in 2025.

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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.