The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the 1,000 Journals Project (through April 5), a showcase of some of the journals from a SFMOMA experiment that have returned to San Francisco. The project is ongoing, collaborative and participatory—co-curated by anonymous project creator Someguy and Stephanie Pau of the SFMOMA Education Department—whereby 1,000 blank journals are tracked as they journey around the world. Each journal is stamped with a message inviting participants to decorate its pages, and then pass it on when finished. The journals have thus far made their way to more than 40 countries and all 50 states.

In keeping with the spirit of the project, journals and art supplies will be available to museum visitors, inviting you to take part in the experiment.

Art collectors and enthusiasts crowd into the Academy Art Museum to experience the excitement of Plein Air–Easton (above). This year's Competition Prospectus will be released December 1, 2008, with an artist’s submission deadline of March 6, 2009. Competition artists will be announced March 27, 2009. Click here for more information.

The Northwest Watercolor Society has awarded the winners of its 2008 Annual Waterworks juried exhibition. Juror Betsy Dillard Stroud selected Joe MacKechnie's painting, Rachel 2 (shown here) as the first place winner. Other winners included Harold Walkup and Donna Watson. Winners are now on display (and are available for purchase) at the New Dimension Gallery in Bellevue, WA.