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Giveaway: Modern Papermaking

The Sunday Paper #479

September 24, 2023

Hip hip hooray! It’s time to celebrate Kelsey Pike’s new book, Modern Papermaking, with a GIVEAWAY! Enter your name by Friday 9/29 to win a chance to receive a copy of the e-book (there’s a print publication too, available anywhere fine books are sold).

Modern Papermaking is filled with tips and tricks that Pike, who runs Sustainable Papercraft, has perfected over the years, including:

How to make a basic mould & deckle, a curved couching stand and a simple press.Papermaking techniques, including recipes for making 30 fun colors.Professional techniques, such as keeping records, pricing and selling paper, and using a Hollander beater.13 fun DIY projects, like business cards and some of her signature papers (moon paper, wave paper, patterned paper).

I’ll be sharing more from Pike in an upcoming episode of Paper Talk plus a YouTube video where she shows me some of the elements that are featured in the book. It was so fun to talk with a papermaking colleague about the ins and outs of putting a book together for publication. Don’t forget to sign up for the Giveaway.

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There’s paper in there! Alexis Arnold’s Crystallized Books transform novels, guides, and maps into gleaming sculptures that consider how we value and use objects. Arnold submerges found books into a hot bath of water and borax. When water boils, its molecules expand, and as the saturated water cools again, the molecules shrink and any excess borax crystallizes. Out of the pools come books coated with dense, translucent clusters that stabilize the objects as warped, crinkled mounds.

© Alexis Arnold, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (2021) As seen on Colossal.

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I didn’t realize that the art of grave rubbing was a thing. Many historical societies and enthusiasts, as well as family researchers, will conduct a grave rubbing (on paper) to have a document on hand of a historical figure’s or family member’s stone for their records. This article lovingly includes a story about the deceased.

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I hope you can make it to this mini-workshop (via Zoom) on Friday September 29th at noon mountain time. We’ll be making these Pleated Paper Cards, and I’ll be talking about The Paper Year, which opens for registration that day. Click here to register for the free workshop, and you will find more information about The Paper Year at the bottom of that page.

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Rutgers Distinguished Professor Emerita Judith K. Brodsky, a visionary artist and advocate, arts administrator and entrepreneur, printmaker, and scholar, recognized that women and gender nonconforming artists, as well as artists of color, were excluded from the art world in the 1980s. The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986–2017, celebrates her pioneering work in the Voorhees Gallery at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Marieke de Hoop on Paper Talk?I’ve just settled on the theme for next year’s Red Cliff Paper Retreat (August 26-30, 2024). Click through to see what it is. Registration opens later this fall.Are you interested in a papermaking intensive? I have one spot that hasn’t been spoken for in next year’s July Master Class (deposits will be due in October). Express your interest here.

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Featured ProjectsI enjoy seeing what you create with the guidance of my books and workshops, so please consider sending me images!Rachel Singel sent me this photo of her Japanese knotweed paper mixed with abaca. Rachel has become more aware as an artist and teacher that she is also a consumer. While she makes some negotiations for the results she needs for her work, she strives to have as little of an impact on the environment as possible. These papers are made from invasive plants she gathered in Acadia National Park, where she was a Resident Artist in May 2023.

Japanese knotweed + abaca paper by Rachel Singel, note the laid lines that appear on the finished sheets.

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About our Sponsor: Founded in 1983, C&T Publishing is a craft book publisher with a list of books and products across a range of handmade art subjects, including quilting, sewing, embroidery, cosplay, watercolor, paper crafting, and more. 

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Pleated Paper Cards

The Sunday Paper #478

September 17, 2023

You are invited to a free online workshop on zoom on Friday, September 29th at noon mountain time. We’ll be making these Pleated Paper Cards, and I’ll be talking about The Paper Year, which opens for registration that day. Click here to register for the free workshop, and you will find more information about The Paper Year at the bottom of that page. I hope you’ll join us!

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Marieke de Hoop on Paper Talk. de Hoop has been making and experimenting with paper for the past 40 years using traditional papermaking techniques. She runs PapierLab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where she works with artists and makers to create unique, beautiful and sustainable papers and products.

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Yaron Steinberg’s brain/city serves as the artist’s visual diary. Viewers are invited to uncover hidden meanings woven within its delicate and ephemeral materiality, including paper, string, and light, which serve as metaphors for the fleeting nature of life itself with their fragility and transiency.

©Yaron Steinberg, as seen on designboom.

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My family attended my nephew’s wedding at the end of June, and I recently donated a copy of The Art of Papercraft, along with some papers, to his company’s Big Give Day raffle in San Antonio (coming right up: 9/20 – 9/21). Project QUEST provides their clients with education or training for a living-wage career that leads to post-secondary degrees or industry-recognized certifications. QUEST’s model is focused on economic stability, emergency assistance, and providing the tools necessary for a participant and their family to be successful long-term. This video is moving and sums it all up.

Learn more and donate to The Big Give.

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Take a mesmerizing look at the making of a late medieval book from start to finish.

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Paper TidbitsCheck out this fun paper swap, the Handmade Paper Exchange! Submit 12 letter-sized papers and receive 10 sheets in exchange. $10 covers postage – what a bargain for 10 handmade sheets!My latest video on Youtube features paper cutting tools. What’s your favorite paper cutting tool?

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Featured ProjectsI enjoy seeing what you create with the guidance of my books and workshops, so please consider sending me images! Here’s a group of lanterns submitted by Liza S. She found the instructions in my video tutorials playlist on Youtube. Here you see the Crown Lantern, Cube Light and Winter Solstice Lantern. How fun!

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Booksmart Fair

The Sunday Paper #477

September 10, 2023

I spent some time this week planning for the next quarter of The Paper Year, which begins October 1. I’ve been entranced by the Bojagi Curtain – that Steph Rue (mentioned below) designed for my book, The Art of Papercraft – and have been experimenting with paper pleating techniques. Although I’ve worked with pleating in several ways in the past, her project sparked new ideas, and I’ll be showing some of these at a free mini workshop on Zoom on Friday, September 29th at noon MDT. I hope you can join us! I’ll share details next week.

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How fun to discover the work of Nancy Glen, who is having a retrospective of her paintings since the late 1950s at David Richard Gallery in NYC. Genn’s handmade paper paintings from 1975 through the 1980s are included. Click through to catch some of these pieces from the in a video tour or go see the show in person (through 10/12/23).

© Nancy Genn, SOUNION IX, 1988, Hand made paper, 36″ x 45″

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Poposition Press is an independent publishing house that creates art pop up editions in the form of books, greeting cards and 3-D print collaborations with contemporary visual artists. Rosston Meyer has been at this for the past ten years and has done some amazing collaborations – licensing the works of artists like Keith Haring and Andy Warhol to create pop up cards, books and more.

Poposition Press, Andy Warhol Banana Pop-Up Card

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Art on Paper is partnering with Center for Book Arts (CBA) on Booksmart Fair, a new artists’ book fair located at the front of this year’s Art on Paper (today’s the last day). CBA invited eight institutions to take part, and each is showing a curated selection of artists’ books that engage the form in a myriad of ways – ranging from highly tactile and physical objects to conceptual works. One of them, the Book/Print/Scholar of Color Collective, got a nice review in The Art Newspaper.

Radha Pandey’s book, Deep Time, is represented by the Book/Print/Scholar of Color Collective.

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I learn so much from artist newsletters! This week, I received three that I can think of and was inspired by all of them, and they all work with paper in various ways (Sarah Horowitz, Diane Jacobs and Steph Rue). I was particularly interested in Steph Rue’s piece which I’d seen on Instagram. She is featured in the inaugural Korean American Artist Collective (KAAC) exhibition in Washington, D.C. It is up through the month of September and features the work of 20 artist members.

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Paper TidbitsAn oldie but a goodie. My interview with Rosston Meyer of Poposition Press on Paper Talk.I enjoy getting a peek into the studios of other artists. I recently met with Claudia Lee on Zoom, because she’s our guest artist in The Paper Year next month. She told me about Fibre Arts Australia, where her studio is profiled. After you take a look at hers, you can click to view 93 other studios!

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Featured PaperTamara Sorkin, who lives in Northern Israel, sent me these photos of the different plants she has been making paper from, using my book, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, as a guide. Check out her fig leaf paper (bottom right) olive leaf paper (bottom left), and some crab grass paper, which includes some unbeaten crab grass. I asked her about the yellow color – she said the sheets were green when wet and dried yellow! Thanks for sharing, Tamara! Readers, if any of my books have inspired you to create something, I’d love to see and feature your work!

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One Dot at a Time

The Sunday Paper #476

September 3, 2023

This is related to paper, tangentially. I swim 3x a week with a master’s group led by Josiah Middaugh, a former Xterra world champion and a professional athlete. Josiah broke his foot recently, so he didn’t compete in last weekend’s event in Beaver Creek, but here you see his 19 year old son Sullivan, taking first place (he placed first last year too, just ahead of his father). I swim with some elite athletes (mind you, I only swim, and I am nowhere near elite) and decided to head to the finish line to watch the first racers arrive. I did two triathlons when they were just beginning back in the late 80’s, but I didn’t enjoy the biking and running nearly as much as the swimming. Here’s the paper connection: when Sully was in 3rd grade, he attended the Paper Club that I ran at my kids’ school when we first moved to Colorado. Happy Labor Day to those of you in the US! Sullivan worked hard for this. He’s now in college and competing as a pro.

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I listed this opportunity awhile back, and now the awards have been announced! Congratulations to Kamari Bright, Julie Chen, Betty Pasco and Julie Paschkis for winning the inaugural Bainbridge Island Museum of Art BRAVA awards. Click through to watch the award videos about each artist, which are a treat to see.

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Wowza! Xavier Casalta creates his works on paper, one dot at a time. He estimates that a recent piece contains about 48 million dots of meticulously stippled black ink.

As seen on Colossal: Left: Naxos Tetradrachm with Dionysus. Right: Penny Black stamp

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After 50 years, St. Armand in Montreal is downscaling, moving out and heading to a rural property in the Laurentians to continue making paper in a more peaceful, and satisfying, environment. They’ll still make paper, as they have for nearly 50 years (David is 82) but it will be in smaller batches, for fewer artisans, who are willing to make the trek to find them.

Denise Lapointe and David Carruthers laugh in their basement mill as Carruthers fiddles with a pH test he uses to check the quality of the raw materials he will use to make paper. (Matthew Lapierre/CBC)

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This is an amazing story about Awagami Paper in Japan, and their efforts to help Ukranians preserve and protect historic documents.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Therese Zemlin on Paper Talk?The NC Museum of Art is hosting the Art Book Fair September 22 – 24 in Raleigh.I truly admire the work of Elsa Mora, who is showing at Thomas Nickles Project, NY. Elsa used to run the All About Papercutting Blog, which is still a fantastic resource.

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Papermaking Series: Deep Cleaning Moulds

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos.

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Poison Ivy Paper!

The Sunday Paper #474

August 27, 2023

I hosted the Red Cliff Paper Retreat last week. This is one of the few events I hold in my Colorado studio. If you’d like to work with me in Colorado, please click through to read about my retreat and my papermaking master classes. I’ll be setting dates 2024 dates soon.

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I had a lovely interview with Therese Zemlin on Paper Talk. Zemlin has worked in a range of media, including paper, welded steel, light, digital media, and natural materials. Her work ranges from small sculpture to installation and is inspired by elements and phenomena of the ever-changing natural world. She has exhibited her work nationally, and has received numerous grants, including a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Enjoy our conversation!

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How cool is this?! Erin Schmidt made poison ivy paper. It turned out so well, and Erin reports that she didn’t have an allergic reaction. Have you used Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds to help in your papermaking efforts? I’d love to see (and feature) the results!

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Minneapolis, Minnesota artist Liz Sexton creates sculptures that blur the line between the animal kingdom and human life. Working with paper mâché, a medium she prefers for its versatility and accessibility, Sexton creates large masks of fish, birds, and mammals that are meant to be worn.

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If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss the Book Arts Bazaar on September 30th in Redwood City, a one-day celebration of the book and paper arts presented by the Bay Area Book Artists.  This free event features demonstrations, exhibition and sales of artists’ books and related art, as well as hands-on activities. Exhibitors will display and sell art that challenges conventional views of what it means to “be a book.”

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Paper TidbitsWho will I see at the upcoming North American Hand Papermaker’s Conference in late October? Registration has just opened.Dreams, An International Juried Exhibition of Book Art, has just opened at the Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound. View the exhibition catalog featuring all of the books on 23 Sandy Gallery’s website.Spark Gallery, in Denver, is hosting three exhibitions of contemporary book arts from August 17 – September 10.

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Accordion x Accordion

The Sunday Paper #473

August 20, 2023

I’ve been collecting unique paper objects/cards/books since the mid 1980’s. I recently took photos and videos of these gems, and it was fun to revisit each and every piece. This is an airport map of Schiphol in Amsterdam. The design is quite clever – one sheet is accordion folded, first in one direction and then the other; there’s information printed on both sides; and when folded up completely, the map, which measures approximately 2″ x 3″, has card stock “covers” on the front and back.

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Italian fashion house Fendi has collaborated with Japanese architect Kengo Kuma to design accessories that reference ancient Japanese craft techniques, which were presented at Fendi’s latest menswear show. Click through to see other paper and bark bags, and shoes.

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Ann Manuel is working on a lovely paper installation called Breath, consisting of hundreds of seed pods and flowers. The work was inspired by the experience of witnessing her mother’s final breath — and her mother’s dying wish to see the flowers from her garden preserved.

© Ann Manuel, Each seed pod and flower has been constructed by hand out of materials including paper, silk, wool and 3D pen.

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Click through to watch a lovely video about the Living Seashore that Jane Kim created in 2015 (with paper) for the National Aquarium in Baltimore. I love how she talks about art and how it can make things that are hard-to-see (like underwater animals) visible.

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The Art of Paper with Tom Balbo, Carol Barton, Denise Carbone, and Amanda Degener will be held at the beautiful facilities of the International Center for the Arts in the perfectly-preserved medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio, in Umbria, Italy, September 17 – October 1, 2023 (coming right up). Participants will receive sixteen hours of instruction in four areas: hand papermaking, pulp paper painting and marbling, sewn bookbindings, and designing pop-ups. The session will also include field trips to the Fabriano Paper Mill and to the city of Florence, along with several other excursions.

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New Leaf Paper, Inc has acquired Arnold Grummer’s LLC. The Wisconsin-based company distributes nationwide as the preferred supplier of hand papermaking kits. Arnold Grummer’s is also celebrating their founder’s 100th birthday, with lots of fun photos on instagram, including the Great American Paper Machine.

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Paper TidbitsCheck out the amazing Pop-Up Pyramids members created in The Paper Year last month (video).

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About the Sponsor: This post is sponsored by the International Center for the Arts, an interdisciplinary arts and humanities center in central Italy, in the medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio. From its mountain perch, it overlooks the famed, Tiber River on its way to Rome and the lush Tiber Valley. It is an all-inclusive facility that provides 24/7 bi-lingual site support, airport welcome and departure services, airport transfer, three, chef-catered meals per day, single occupancy accommodations, and excursions once a week, in addition to fully equipped workplace for visual artists in paper making, book-binding, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture , clay arts, and photography, and crafts people of all disciplines, in addition to writers, filmmakers and composers, as well as scholars.

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Paper Unfolding, Unfurling

The Sunday Paper #473

August 13, 2023

I’m diving a little deeper into the manuscript for my next how-to book about paper weaving. The bulk of the book will feature 30 projects that readers can weave as they journey through the process and explore a variety of paper weaving techniques. I plan to feature a wide range of papers – here you see a handmade sheet from Cave Paper and a cork paper from Portugal. The book relates to my online class Weave Through Winter (which takes place again in Feb 2024).

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The Art of Paper with Tom Balbo, Carol Barton, Denise Carbone, and Amanda Degener will be held at the beautiful facilities of the International Center for the Arts in the perfectly-preserved medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio, in Umbria, Italy, September 17 – October 1, 2023 (coming right up). Participants will receive sixteen hours of instruction in four areas: hand papermaking, pulp paper painting and marbling, sewn bookbindings, and designing pop-ups. The session will also include field trips to the Fabriano Paper Mill and to the city of Florence, along with several other excursions.

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Felon: An American Washi Tale debuted recently at Princeton. This one-person show features Reginald Dwayne Betts (who I wote about in this post). The show features Bett’s poetry and a paper kite set created by Kyoko Ibe, the artist behind a previous rendition of Recycling: Washi Tales. The through line is Elise Thoron, the NY writer and director of both pieces. Watch the video about the project here.  The Legacy Press recently published a book about Ibe’s work called The Way of Washi Tales.

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Kaori Kato’s exhibition, Paper Unfolding, Unfurling, is currently on view at the Messums Wiltshire Gallery and Arts Centre in London. Her paper sculpture dynamically fills the space with works suspended from the ceiling, unfolding from the floor, rhythmically rolling over plinths and curling over the walls.

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New Hampshire artist Roland Simard takes papermaking to the next level with his pulp paintings. Enjoy this descriptive article about how he creates his work.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Jennie Frederick on Paper Talk?

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Papermaking Series: Bendable Paper

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos.

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About the Sponsor: This post is sponsored by the International Center for the Arts, an interdisciplinary arts and humanities center in central Italy, in the medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio. From its mountain perch, it overlooks the famed, Tiber River on its way to Rome and the lush Tiber Valley. It is an all-inclusive facility that provides 24/7 bi-lingual site support, airport welcome and departure services, airport transfer, three, chef-catered meals per day, single occupancy accommodations, and excursions once a week, in addition to fully equipped workplace for visual artists in paper making, book-binding, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture , clay arts, and photography, and crafts people of all disciplines, in addition to writers, filmmakers and composers, as well as scholars.

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Rolled Paper Beads

The Sunday Paper #472

August 6, 2023

I’ve been making paper this week – I’m trying to use up pulp from my last studio workshop before my next one begins in two weeks. Mending has been on my mind lately – mending our world and our wounds (physical and emotional). This may be the beginning of a new project that involves stitching on paper.

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This work, by Sanaa Gateja, is created from rolled paper beads. He creates art for development – the production of his materials provides sustainable employment for craftswomen across Uganda. Click through to see more.

Paper, acrylic, natural dyes, stitching on bark cloth, 230 x 150 cm. Courtesy Karma.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Jennie Frederick on Paper Talk. Frederick earned her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in fibers, followed by an MFA from Indiana State University. She apprenticed with Douglass Morse Howell, Bob Serpa, from Imago, and received her MFA for apprenticing at Twinrocker Handmade Paper. Frederick founded Kansas City Paperworks, Inc. in 1983 and has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and MCC-Maple Woods, where she developed a Fiber & Papermaking Program. She is currently a full-time artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Enjoy our conversation!

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Sadly, I discovered the work of Anil Revri posthumously. I’m drawn to his work both aesthetically and conceptually. A series of his paintings, Cultural Crossings (1998-2001), was shown at the UN Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in 2000. The series of mixed media on paper includes sacred text taken from various religious traditions and intricately patterned geometric borders.

Cultural Crossings 3, Suite 2, 1998-2001, mixed media on Arches paper, 29.84 x 23.49 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Aicon Gallery

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Paper in Italy? Yes, please! The Art of Paper with Tom Balbo, Carol Barton, Denise Carbone, and Amanda Degener will be held at the beautiful facilities of the International Center for the Arts in the perfectly-preserved medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio, in Umbria, Italy, September 17 – October 1, 2023 (coming right up). Participants will receive sixteen hours of instruction in four areas: hand papermaking, pulp paper painting and marbling, sewn bookbindings, and designing pop-ups. The session will also include field trips to the Fabriano Paper Mill and to the city of Florence, along with several other excursions. This is an ideal session for teachers, graphic designers, creative artists, and anyone who likes to play with paper. No prior experience is necessary; all skill levels are welcome.

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Paper TidbitsKelsey Pike’s book, Modern Papermaking, comes out soon, and you can pre-order it now.The Art & Art Therapy of Papermaking, by Drew Matott and Gretchen Miller, is also coming out soon.Arnold  Grummer would have been 100 years old on August 19th. Follow AG’s on Facebook and Instagram to celebrate his birthday with facts and photos about his life.

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Papermaking Series: Brushing & Drying Felts

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos.

 

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About the Sponsor: This post is sponsored by the International Center for the Arts, an interdisciplinary arts and humanities center in central Italy, in the medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio. From its mountain perch, it overlooks the famed, Tiber River on its way to Rome and the lush Tiber Valley. It is an all-inclusive facility that provides 24/7 bi-lingual site support, airport welcome and departure services, airport transfer, three, chef-catered meals per day, single occupancy accommodations, and excursions once a week, in addition to fully equipped workplace for visual artists in paper making, book-binding, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture , clay arts, and photography, and crafts people of all disciplines, in addition to writers, filmmakers and composers, as well as scholars. We provide performance and practice space as well as equipment for musicians, actors, performance artists.

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Pattern Folding

The Sunday Paper #471

July 30, 2023

Do you have threads that follow you through your life (hindsights, reflections, memories)? I seem to be thinking about the past lately, and pondering where my ideas come from, like how did I become obsessed with the ways in which a flat piece of paper can be transformed into a three-dimensional form? Was it the standardized tests I took in school with puzzles like this on them? I loved trying to solve those puzzles, and I’m guessing that some of you hated them. Click here to ‘see’ the answer to this puzzle.

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I am so amazed when I see a paper show and hardly know any of the artists featured. It is so fun to ‘meet’ new paper artists! I mentioned the Possibilities of Paper show in a previous blog post, and then the show was featured on Colossal.

Jaq Belcher, “All in Good Time” (2023), hand-cut paper, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Jayne H. Baum/JHB Gallery

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I have so many questions this week – why are we drawn to the famous faces – do you recognize this one? Click through to see if you’re right, and view more of these unique paper cut portraits by John Ed De Vera.

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And now back to thinking about the past. HiiH Lights has been making gorgeous lighting fixtures in Oregon for a long time. I met Lam Quang when I moved to Portland in 1998, and his wife, Kestrel Gates, joined his team a few years later. For awhile, we were neighbors, and he’d wheel a toddler over in a wagon to pick up pulp that I beat for them. When I left Portland, he acquired my old Davis Hodges beater.

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This is a fascinating video about chiyogami paper, the wide variety of patterned papers that have been made in Japan since the mid 19th century.

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Paper TidbitsNeed a sugeta? Carriage House has you covered!Where do you purchase papers? I have a list of favorite shops in The Paper Advisor and would love to add to it. If that link doesn’t take you there, please sign up for this free resource here. Tell me about your favorite shops that aren’t on this list!

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Papermaking Series: Couching Mistakes

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos.

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High Shrinkage Abaca

The Sunday Paper #470

July 23, 2023

It was a busy week in the studio with my Papermaking Master Class. We covered a lot of ground, getting hands-on experience in sheet forming, watermarking, coloring pulp and sculptural techniques, and spending a day at Susan Mackin Dolan’s studio processing plant fibers and learning her low-tech methods for making professional papers. We ended the week assembling some of our dry sheets into sample books.  I’ll be scheduling a couple of Master Classes for 2024 soon. If you’re interested, find out more and fill out a short application.

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Origami in the Garden, the brainchild of Kevin and Jennifer Box –who turn origami forms into giant metal sculptures – has a new touring exhibition called Florigami – which will open in August at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.

Pinwheel Wildflowers

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Check out the July/August issue of Popular Mechanics, featuring an animated paper airplane. The magazine is celebrating their fascinating history with this contribution to the field of aerodynamics and engineering.

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I enjoyed watching how Philomena Marano creates her unique paper cuts from the bottom up (click through to watch a video). Marano says: “Piecing the whole artwork together is like building something layer by layer, so it’s almost sculptural.”

© Philomena Marano

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Corn starch isn’t just for cooking! Read about the other applications, including its role in  the paper manufacturing process.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Brian Queen on Paper Talk? He had  some great recommendations, which you will find at the bottom of the show notes page.

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Papermaking Series: High Shrinkage Abaca

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking video.

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