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July 9, 2022
Small Sheets
The Sunday Paper #420
July 10th, 2022
Today’s the last day to join us in The Paper Year.
Explore creative paper techniques; receive project instructions designed to spark ideas that keep you creating for the rest of the month; and join our growing community of paper lovers online to learn and share in a warm, encouraging, supportive, creative community. Click here to read more, watch the video and register.
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This lead in line to an article caught my attention: “The titular video work ⽻化 (wings becoming), 2022, in Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho’s recent solo presentation at 47 Canal invigorated the New York gallery with the whirring of 16mm film, the heat of the projector, and the shifting light of the images in the viewing room. The works in the show were created in lockdown, many of them with handmade paper.
Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, 羽化 (wings becoming) (still), 2022, 16 mm film, color, silent, 6 minutes 20 seconds.
COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND 47 CANAL, NEW YORK
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These drawings on paper by Kathleen Henderson are so poignant! “Henderson has been drawing her way through nearly 30 years of exasperation at this country’s political corruption, military operations, environmental degradation, and social unrest, creating a devastating register of human folly and wrongdoing.”
Kathleen Henderson, Cage, 2021, oil stick and oil on paper, 24 by 28 ½ inches. PHOTO SEAN MEREDITH
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During my upcoming class in Italy, we’ll be visiting Fabriano, an historic papermaking village. Yes, that Fabriano – their paper can be found in art stores worldwide. Here’s a lovely glimpse into the medieval town.
The seal of Fabriano displayed on a brick wall typical of the city. CATHERINE LOMBARD
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This amazing time-lapse video shows Chris Conrad, 22, creating a breath-taking five-foot-nine high statue – from a single piece of paper. It looks like he glued several sheets of paper together to create the large sheet, and I found it fascinating to watch him folding in various settings.
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Marilyn Hammick is a maker, a stitcher and a writer with a practice that aims to create forms that bring paper, thread, fabric and words together. Below you’ll find two of her renditions of projects in The Art of Papercraft:
Left: Pleat and Dot, 2022, is a Swirling Flower, made with wrapping paper and measuring 8 x 8 inches;
Right: On Display, 2022, is a Pleated Display Stand (designed by Hedi Kyle for the book) created in A4 mi teintes paper and displays offcuts from Hammick’s paintings.
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Paper Tidbits:I’m giving a virtual lecture through the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking on July 26th via Zoom, which is free and open to anyone. Illuminating the Paper Vessel will focus on my artistic research into creating sculptural paper forms, many of them rooted in Japanese tradition.The culminating event for Step Into the Light, the giant paper lantern I constructed at Anythink Wright Farms Library, will take place on July 30th. If you’re in Denver, I hope you can join me!The Paper Retreat in Italy, that I’m part of, is filling up, but there are still a few spots.I have two spots that have opened up in my Red Cliff Paper Retreat in my Colorado studio in August. Our theme is paper weaving.———————————————————————————————–––––––
In the Studio:I’m going to be offering a weekly selection of Small Sheets in limited quantities for the next several weeks. You might recognize many of these sheets from last year’s Curated Paper Collections (I had a few leftover sheets) but there will be other papers in the mix too.
This week’s selection includes ten sheets ranging in size between 7″ x 10″ and 9″ x 12″. They tuck neatly into a stiff mailing envelope for first class shipping. I have 10 sets for $24.99 each (plus $3 for shipping in the US). I’m happy to ship elsewhere, but the shipping charge will be higher. Click through to read a bit about each paper and order a set.
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July 2, 2022
A Paper Community
The Sunday Paper #419
July 3rd, 2022
Each quarter, I open The Paper Year, my monthly membership program, for registration, and this is one of those times. Now through July 10th, you can join this vibrant, creative, encouraging paper community. We’ll be exploring paper cutting via a pop-up theater with Béatrice Coron in July; Cave Paper will visit our monthly Zoom meeting in August, when we’re also creating a unique book structure; and in September we’ll dive into stitched paper vessels, and Radha Pandey will teach us about natural dyeing on paper in a special surface design workshop. Click here to read more, watch the video and register.
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Need a paper project for the long weekend? I’ve got two for you!I just taught this Spinning Flower Card workshop last week (you can learn more about The Paper Year at the beginning of the recording, or skip straight to the tutorial at 20:00).Last summer, I did a Freedom Pop Up Card workshop on Zoom. That word freedom seems more important than ever this year!
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This is a fascinating article about the Commercial Pattern Archive. Remember those paper patterns? For the community of vintage sewing enthusiasts, an unassuming website maintained by the University of Rhode Island is a priceless and irreplaceable treasure that safeguards ephemeral and inexpensive sewing patterns, documents that are fragile, easily forgotten, and born to die.
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A reader recently turned me on to the work of Pi Luna out of Santa Fe, who has a unique style of collage.
© 2022, Pi Luna, mixed media on cradled panel, 12 x 12 in.
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If you happen to be in Amsterdam this summer, XXL Paper is currently on view at the Rijksmuseum. They are exhibiting 27 vulnerable, large and rare works from the museum’s own collection, works that are usually considered too laborious to mount and too large to display in their full glory.
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Claudia Lee is a full-time artist working in handmade paper. She is the owner of Liberty Paper, a working and teaching studio in Middle Tennessee, as well as an artist, papermaker, designer, consultant, author and workshop leader.
Her unique bags have an origami fold that allows them to fold flat and their handles are hand-spun paper.
© 2022 Claudia Lee, Homage to Takashimaya, artist-made paper, abaca, sized, wax resist, collaged with assorted decorative handmade papers, hand-stitched. Tall Bag: 9″h x 4.5″w on three sides; Short Bag: 4.5″ h x 4.5″w on three sides
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In the Studio:I’ve been in Portland this past week, visiting our daughter, who will be a senior at the University of Portland. She has a summer internship with a PR firm, and thankfully, only has to work in the mornings, so we’ve had the afternoons and evenings to spend together. I love how green it is here, with so many flowers and BIG trees.
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The Art of Papercraft, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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June 25, 2022
Animals Out of Paper
The Sunday Paper #418
June 26th, 2022
This week I’ve been putting together a few artist’s books for an exhibition at Colorado State University that will take place this fall. When I create an edition, I don’t always complete it – I make the books to order – but I’ve realized that I waste quite a bit of time when I do it that way because I forget the production process! I’ve been hand stitching the colophon for the last copy of Nebulae, which will eventually go to our daughter, who sparked the idea and told the story.
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Rabbit hole warning: I spent quite a bit of time on Paste Paper Living‘s site. Their story is fascinating. They are using paper pulp like porcelain, pouring it into forms and then removing the water.
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Check this out: a play centering around origami. Animals Out of Paper follows Ilana, a world-renowned origami artist riding the lows of a divorce, a lost dog and minimal socialization. She’s met by fan and high school teacher Andy who brings her Suresh, a teen origami prodigy, and then unfolds a story of mismatched pairings, hurting and healing with those around us. The show opens in Tampa next month.
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This looks like a terrific paper show at Heron Arts in San Fransisco.
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Ramsay Teviotdale has been working her way through some of the projects in The Art of Papercraft, and she sent these two that explore the accordion fold. On the left: Swirling Flower, Nepalese Lokta paper, coiled cardstock center, double-sided tape. 7″ wide, 1/2″ deep; On the right: Tyvek Lanterns, repurposed business size Tyvek envelope, acrylic paint, double-sided tape. Each vessel is approximately 3″ tall and 3.5″ wide. Photos by the artist.
The pattern in the paper swirls together so nicely on this flower, and I love how the Tyvek is stained for those lanterns.
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Spinning Flower Card
(you can rearrange the petals), and I’ll talk a bit about The Paper Year, my membership program, which will be open for registration. Register for this free workshop.I have two spots that have opened up in my Red Cliff Paper Retreat in my Colorado studio in August. Our theme is paper weaving.The Paper Retreat in Italy, that I’m part of, is filling up, but there are still a few spots.———————————————————————————————–––––––
In the Studio:I’m heading to Portland tomorrow to visit our daughter. On my way to the airport in Denver, I’ll stop by Anythink Wright Farms, where I’m looking forward to conversations with library goers and staff about my installation, Step Into The Light. I plan to make a video documenting the experience – stay tuned.
If you’re in the Denver area, please come to these events in July:
Lantern workshops: if you have a 5-12 year old, they can make a lantern with me, July 19th – 23rd. Here’s the link to the first session, and if you click on the calendar, you can register for the other sessions (there are two each day that week, at various library branches).Please join us for the culminating event: Illuminate the Night, on July 30th. I’m really looking forward to this family friendly event with lots of activities, followed by a lantern procession to my lantern as the grand finale.
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The Art of Papercraft, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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June 18, 2022
A Week of Papermaking
The Sunday Paper #417
Juneteenth + Father’s Day, 2022
I just finished hosting the first ever Papermaking Master Class in my studio. Four participants traveled here for the week to expand their knowledge of the papermaking process. We explored many of the techniques that are covered in my book, The Papermaker’s Companion, and spent one day at Susan Mackin Dolan’s studio processing Japanese fibers – there’s nothing seeing and touching the tools and materials.
You can read about the course here and add your name to the list for future Papermaking Master Classes. (My next in studio event is in August – read more about the Red Cliff Paper Retreat below).
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This is an intriguing project: an art exhibition consisting of 1,000 origami paper cranes and 333 Japanese haiku poems that will grow and flock month by month. The year-long project is related to Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee.
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I’ve featured the work of Polly Verity before, and her work is worth sharing again. She’s folding some unique papers, and if you check her out on instagram, you’ll see that find her exploring new folds.
© Polly Verity, as seen on Colossal
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Check out this bakeable, paper packaging from Novacart.
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I enjoyed this interview with Asheville artist Jenny Pickens, whose work resembles paintings but is actually created with tiny bits of paper, assembled to accent shapes, colors, light and shadows.
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Pam MacKellar is a book and paper artist, and printmaker who lives and works in New Mexico. Her first pandemic project was to study and make models from Paul Jackson’s books. Since then she has continued to study different paper folding and pop up techniques. She has taught book arts at the University of New Mexico Department of Continuing Education, the Santa Fe Book Arts Group, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and her art has been exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the US.
© 2022, Pam MacKellar, Folded Column #2, paste paper on Arches Text Wove, 12.5″ (H) x 3″ (W) x 3″ (D), Photo credit: Pam MacKellar
Paper Tidbits:I’ll be hosting a free mini-workshop on Zoom in a couple of weeks. We’ll make a Spinning Flower Card (you can rearrange the petals), and I’ll talk a bit about The Paper Year, my membership program, which will be open for registration. Join us on June 29th for some paper fun! Register here.I have two spots that have opened up in my Red Cliff Paper Retreat in my Colorado studio in August.I’m a member of the Craft Industry Alliance, and they are currently taking scholarship applicationsIf you run a small craft business, I highly recommend this organization.I’m going to be hanging out in Denver at Anything Wright Farms Library on June 27th from 10am – noon with my lantern installation, Step Into the Light. Send me an e-mail if you’d like to meet me there.———————————————————————————————–––––––
In the Studio:My next in-person event is the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, a gathering of a dozen like-minded creatives here in Colorado. This year, we’ll explore paper weaving, with both readymade and handmade papers. This event will take place August 22 – 26th and two spots have recently opened up – join us if you can!
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The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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June 11, 2022
Spinning Flowers
The Sunday Paper #417
June 12, 2022
I’ll be hosting a free mini-workshop on Zoom in a couple of weeks. We’ll make a Spinning Flower Card (you can rearrange the petals), and I’ll talk a bit about The Paper Year, my membership program, which will be open for registration. Join us on June 29th for some paper fun! Register here.
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© Yusuke Oono, 360° Book: Earth and the Moon
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Fashion brand Hermès has built four large structures modeled on water towers that are covered in translucent sheets of colored paper inside the event space La Pelota at Milan design week. Wowza! Click through to see inside of the towers, which remind me of shoji screens. Special thanks to blog reader Wade Brickhouse, who shared this with me.
As seen on Dezeen.
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I’ve featured the work of Charles Holm before, but it is too good not to post again. He started creating architectural models in paper as a daily project and continued, with some breaks, until he had 1000 models. One new object was designed, made, photographed and uploaded each day. All of the models are made using 200gsm watercolour paper and PVA glue. This method allows for rapid construction and exploration of diverse areas of architecture, pushing the possibilities of this single material.
© Paperholm
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Check out the amazing cut paper collages of Winnie Truong.
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects in my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Maxine Apke created the paper for this one-sheet wonder from linen and cotton rag with inclusions: dried fern leaves, cut imagines and ephemera. After drying the paper, Items sewn onto the piece include: pieces of a tea pot, tiny tea cups, spoon, pearls and charms, butterflies and a hummingbird.
Apke uses art as therapy, a respite from bouts of depression, and as a means of exploring how mental illness has affected her family. She has completed an exhibit of 30 works of art reflecting her insights, frustrations, and growth, as well as her solitude. The work has given her a goal/mission to break the silence and stigma of mental illness in our world. It is her way of advocating for her son and others who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. Apke’s dream is to have this exhibit travel around the country and speak about stigma, open conversations, and encourage people to think about the importance of learning about and treating mental illness.
“Tea with Carolyn” 18″ x 24″, photo by Maxine Apke
Paper Tidbits:Have you listened to my interview with Owen Gildersleeve on Paper Talk?Interested in an Italian paper retreat? There are still a few spots left. Can’t wait!I created an 8-minute video, documenting the process of creating my new installation, Step Into The Light.I’m co-jurying a show for the Sebastopol Center for the Arts with Alicia Bailey. Click here to review the call for innovative or traditional explorations of Book + Paper Art.———————————————————————————————–––––––
In the Studio:We have a quarterly surface design workshop for All-In Plan members of The Paper Year. Yesterday, Ali Manning taught us about gelli printing, so fun!
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The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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June 4, 2022
Paper Finger Puppets
The Sunday Paper #416
June 5, 2022
I had the pleasure of talking with Owen Gildersleeve on Paper Talk, an artist specializing in handcrafted illustration, set design & art direction. His unique style, honed over the past 12 years, brings graphic designs to life through layers of hand-cut paper and a playful use of depth & shadow. His practice ranges from intricate illustrations, to large-scale sets and installations, teaming up with the likes of Apple, LUSH, Penguin Books & NASA. Oh, and he illustrated the cover of The Art of Papercraft. Enjoy our conversation!
Photos by Jon Aaron Green
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Check out the paper weavings of Jonpaul Smith. Wowza! He creates complex, tapestry-like constructs, made up of hundreds of interwoven strips of discarded consumer packaging, original traditional and non-traditional prints, gouache paintings, smoke transfers and other paper ephemera.
©Jonpaul Smith, Family Ties, paper construct, 30x42in, 2014
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I just discovered the amazing work of Nancy Mintz, now on view (for a couple more days) at Gallery Geheim in Bellingham, Washington. Using fine brass wire and gossamer-thin Japanese printmaking paper, the artist creates translucent and reflective abstract forms with an otherworldly, ethereal presence.
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These paper puppets are so cute! Learn how to fold them, add facial features, and put on a show!
As seen on Paper Folds – Origami & Crafts.
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I created a video about the process of creating my new installation, Step Into The Light. Have a look!
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects in my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
I’m creating a series of informational videos about the book. This cleverly folded Origami Candy Dish is delightful to fold. Trinity Adams, the 12-year-old director of marketing for the nonprofit Paper for Water, came up with this design by accident when she was just 7. She was trying to fold a fortune-teller. Remember learning to fold those with friends at school? Well, Adams made a mistake and ended up with this design instead. If you try folding a fortune-teller, you’ll see where she went wrong. Sometimes mistakes lead to new inventions. This video is one of a growing series of videos featuring the projects in the book.
Photo by Mars Vilaubi ©Storey Publishing for The Art of Papercraft
Paper Tidbits:We have a new monthly challenge over in The Paper Studio, my free Facebook group. We’re focusing on collage in June.Interested in an Italian paper retreat? There are still a few spots left. Can’t wait!———————————————————————————————–––––––
In the Studio:Years ago, a class participant brought spiral bound copies of my books to a workshop, and I thought it was brilliant. This week, I finally got around to rebinding my own. It was so inexpensive at my local copy shop! And it makes complete sense since these are workbooks – flat pages for easy reference when your hands are wet.
Speaking of wet hands, I adore this photo of two papermakers referring to The Papermaker’s Companion in a British sea.
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Featured in my Studio shop:The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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May 28, 2022
What can you do with Discarded Sheets of Paper?
The Sunday Paper #415
May 29, 2022
This past week, I hosted a group of high school students from the Colorado Academy, who spent the last week of the school year on an “Interim Trip”. It was fun to develop a program for them. They brought a mini bus filled with 9 students and 2 teachers to my studio in Red Cliff, Colorado for three days. We made covers for a book, practiced five papermaking techniques, and learned several one-sheet book structures. They went to the Denver Art Museum on Thursday, and I drove to Denver with their papers and we bound them into a collapsible accordion book structure on Friday. They all had good hand skills.
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I love these sentiments of Samuelle Green, who recycles hundreds of thousands of discarded sheets of paper into millions of hand-rolled cones and builds fantastic cave installations. “There is structure and design inherent in the natural world which we constantly draw from and take for granted. We generally fail to acknowledge the skill, time, and detail required to manifest the intricate structures found in objects we encounter regularly — such as those found in bird and wasp nests, beehives, spider webs, rock formations, anthills, feathers, and countless others…”.
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Did you know that Hans Christian Anderson made paper cuts? He enchanted party guests of all ages with improvised stories as he snipped away, unfolding the sheet at tale’s end, a souvenir for some lucky young listener. Approximately 400 survive, primarily in the Odense City Museums’ large collection.
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This looks like a great paper exhibition, featuring some of Matisse’s paper cuts, along with the work of 42 leading British paper artists and an installation by Amy Williams. The ‘Matisse and Contemporary Paper Artists Exhibition’ is open daily now through Sunday, September 4th at the gallery at Rheged, near Penrith in Cumbria, the UK.
Some of the work to be displayed at the Matisse and Contemporary Paper Artists Exhibition at Rheged
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Hand Papermaking’s annual auction is now live (through June 5th) and features 80 fantastic papery items, including:
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects in my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Here’s a pair of single-sheet books that come together in a fabric wrapper. One book is folded as a Turkish Map Fold, and when open is 11x 11 inches. The second book folds out to measure 11x 17, and has a cover hand painted with eco inks. These books are part of Michelle Wilson and Anne Beck’s The Rhinoceros Project, which began with Albrecht Durer’s woodcut, The Rhinoceros, a life-size (7 x 9’) embroidered version of Durer’s print. This embroidery was created in sewing circles and has been used as a matrix to create an edition of watermarks in handmade paper to commemorate the two remaining Northern White Rhinoceros. The watermark is a ghostly image, and the intention throughout the project is to create space for conversations on loss, extinction, value systems, and revitalization.
“Onward,” The Rhinoceros Project, (Anne Beck and Michelle Wilson), 2019, letterpress and woodcut on Environmental Almond Paper, with handmade abaca paper covers.
Paper Tidbits:My installation, Step Into the Light, is part of Anythink Libraries mySummer program, which centers around the theme of wishes. They’ve put together a lovely brochure, with a page spread about my work, as well as many other lovely features.Have you listened to my interview with Gill Wilson on Paper Talk?Interested in an Italian paper retreat?———————————————————————————————–––––––
In the Studio:Since I had to go to Denver to teach this week, I stopped by the library where my giant paper lantern will be on view throughout the summer. I wanted to see the shelves filled with books about light, which weren’t complete when I left. These shelves create a lovely space to read about and ponder light. I also dropped off a comment book, encouraging viewers to share their thoughts:
Respond to one of the quotes found on the pages in this book or come up with your own. Write your thoughts on any page and discover what others are thinking by reading their comments.
Be the Light: As you sit beneath this giant lantern, reflect on yourself as the light. What makes you shine? What illuminates you? What excites you, energizes you, makes you tick?
Shine Your Light: How you can spread your light into your community and the world?
Light is a noun and a verb: Y ou can be the light and light up the world.
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Featured this week in my Studio shop:The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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May 21, 2022
Airgami
The Sunday Paper #414
May 22, 2022
I spent the past 8 days at Anythink Wright Farms building a giant paper lantern. Step Into The Light was installed on Friday. I am so grateful to this amazing library system for helping me fulfill my vision by offering me a residency, allowing staff to assist with the construction, and providing an installation crew. I hope to collage together the many process photos we took soon.
I had a lovely Q&A session with branch manager Michael Hibben about my work and the project. You can listen to our 25 minute conversation on Facebook or YouTube.
Here’s how the piece looked when I left to head home on Friday before a spring snowstorm closed the pass between Denver and my home in Edwards. The library has collected books about light that will be displayed on the shelves throughout the summer. I hope visitors will walk around the lantern, read the phrase: “You may think your light is small, but it can make a huge difference in other people’s lives”, and then step into the light and be, shine and create light for themselves and their communities.
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Stacy Bettencourt makes beautiful paper hearts. Also, lungs and gallbladders.
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I love how Jo Nakashima creates uniquely colored origami designs with double-sided sheets paper. You’ll find detailed instructions on folding your own versions of his intricate designs on YouTube, but take note of his warning: “Although I call it ‘simplified,’ it doesn’t mean it is simple: it is just simpler than the original version, but actually it is still a bit complex.”
As seen on This is Colossal: Image © Jo Nakashima
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These Airgami masks are not paper, but the inventor saw the film Above the Fold and was inspired to solve a problem: standard face masks didn’t fit his son. The Airgami is a twist on a popular origami design, the magic ball—also known as the dragon’s egg—sliced in half, which creates a large breathing space and fits tightly on the face. The mask is reusable, can be rinsed or disinfected with heat, and comes in four different sizes and various colorful prints, and you can choose between a head strap and ear loops. Robert Lang (an origami master who is featured in the film and came on my podcast Paper Talk) helped Richard Gordon create a computer program to automate the creasing for these masks. Airgami, is vying for part of the half-million dollar purse in the final phase of the Mask Innovation Challenge, run by the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). Good luck!
Richard Gordon and Min Xiao decided to develop a new face mask after they couldn’t find a good one to protect their young son from air pollution. “I thought masks were a total horror,” Gordon says.RICHARD GORDON
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In 2011, I met a Korean woman at the Penland school in North Carolina and mentioned to her that I was going to Korea in a couple of weeks to give a lecture through the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA). She was living in England at the time, but was going to be in Korea when I was, so I arranged to spend a week with her after my lecture. Her father happened to know this paper artist and we went to visit him one day. Wjat a coincidence when just yesterday, a reader shared this video about Chun Kwang Young, that very same artist, with me.
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects in my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Elizabeth Walsh of Olympia, Washington has been a calligrapher/graphic designer/paper and book artist for over 40 years. Origami has always been a fascination of hers, and incorporating letters into folded designs can be a satisfying challenge. Making milestone birthday cards in an accordion format has become a signature of hers, whether you’re turning 5, 50 or 100, or any decade in between. She delights in the process of creating a unique card or booklet for someone special, but the real joy is in the giving/receiving. This 100 candle card was made for a dear friend’s mother in celebration of her milestone 100th birthday.
Paper Tidbits:
I’m so excited that several paper enthusiasts I’ve met online and in person are coming to Italy with me this fall. At this retreat, you will explore the potential of paper as a basic material and a medium for creative pursuits with four internationally-known instructors: Helen Hiebert (owner of Helen Hiebert Studio), Amanda Degener (co-founder of Cave Paper), Carol Barton (paper engineer and owner of Popular Kinetics Press), and Denise Carbone (University of the Arts, Philadelphia). More info here.
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In the Studio:As you read above, I was out of the studio this week in Denver. Here are a few more shots of the lantern.
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Featured this week in my Studio shop:The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.
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May 14, 2022
Anythink!
The Sunday Paper #413
May 15, 2022
I had a lovely conversation with Gill Wilson on Paper Talk, who has been working in handmade paper for the past 30 years. Her work has a deep relationship with nature and plants, the tones changing across the seasons. She abandoned sheet forming to work freely with pulp using it to draw with. Her pieces are built in layers, soft drawings that describe her preoccupation with contemporary space that can be changed with light and subtlety. The malleability of the material offers exciting possibilities.
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This is a great start to this profile about Lobulo: “There’s no easily definable category in which to place Lobulo. His primary medium is paper but that’s where the simplicity ends. Looking at his entrancing animated and still-life creations, you’re never quite sure where the analogue handmade ends and the digital trickery begins.” I can think of two other designers in this category, which seems to be on the rise. Paper + technology = some pretty amazing innovations!
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Check out the work of Zhuang Hong Yi, whose “paintings” are composed of relief-like folds of paper painted in kaleidoscopic colors; the hypnotic works seem to change their hues as the viewer shifts their perspective. An exhibition of the artist’s iconic flower fields, is now on view at Martina Kaiser Gallery in Cologne.
Zhuang Hong Yi, ZHY-B02228 (2022). Courtesy of Galerie Martina Kaiser.
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What the heck is a hexakaidecagon? Learn how to make one!
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Paper Tidbits:Join me on Youtube or Facebook Live this Thursday when I chat with Stacie Ledden from Anythink Libraries about my installation, Step Into The Light. This event will be held online on Thursday, May 19, 12-1 pm MST (Denver). Find out how to join us here.I’m so excited that several paper enthusiasts I’ve met online and in person are coming to Italy with me this fall. At this retreat, you will explore the potential of paper as a basic material and a medium for creative pursuits with four internationally-known instructors, Helen Hiebert (owner of Helen Hiebert Studio), Amanda Degener (co-founder of Cave Paper), Carol Barton (paper engineer and owner of Popular Kinetics Press), and Denise Carbone (University of the Arts, Philadelphia). More info here.
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Out of the Studio:I’m in Denver, doing a residency at Anythink Wright Farms, a library system with a focus on innovation. Anythink’s award-winning approach to library service is recognized by industry leaders and organizations across the globe. I’m so honored to be here again (in 2014, I installed a permanent installation, called The Wish, at another branch called Anythink Huron Street).
Creating something like this takes a village. I’ve had the vision to create a giant paper lantern for quite awhile. My friend and colleague, Brian Queen, helped me with the many renderings, the design and engineering, and he cut the parts and pieces for the armature on a CNC. This is four times larger than any lantern I’ve ever constructed, so there are some unknowns, but so far so good!
I’m super grateful to the library staff and volunteers, whom I could not do this without. We plan to hang the lantern in its final space on Friday, May 20th, so I should have images to share with you next week! The entire armature, except for the round rings of reed, will be gone.
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May 7, 2022
Hug Your Mom!
The Sunday Paper #412
May 8, 2022
Happy Mama’s Day everyone.
One of my most rewarding installations was the Mother Tree Project, conceived shortly after my son’s birth in 1999 and executed in 2010. The seven-foot tall handmade paper dress/tree features single strands of thread which extend from the bodice of the dress, representing mother’s milk, and cascade to the floor, transforming via crochet into roots which pile up, filling the surrounding space as a tree’s roots would fill the ground beneath it. The transformation from dress to tree and root to soil symbolizes the mother as a provider and nurturer throughout human development.
Hundreds of people sent crocheted roots for the piece, which made its debut at The Portland Building; and another hundred crocheters, feminists, fathers, mothers, grandmothers, engineers, children, and artists joined me in the space to crochet roots on site. Since then, Mother Tree has traveled to venues around the United States. Mother Tree is currently on view at the Museum of Motherhood in St. Petersburg, Florida.
I invite you to contribute to the Museum of Motherhood’s fundraiser to add Mother Tree to their permanent collection.
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Peter Linde Busk, Solaris, 2022. Installation view, Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden, 2022. Photo: Mattias Givell.
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Interocean Studios in Denver is kicking off the summer with papermaking and printmaking workshops in Ray Tomasso’s former studio. Join the fun!
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This book looks intriguing: Paper In The Book examines how different contents behave when printed on different design papers. And there’s proof in the pages!
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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects in my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!
Sarah Knight took up paper weaving last year after many years of doing photography and different textiles like quilting and weaving. She loves working with paper and it is a great creative outlet now that she is retired and has time to immerse herself in it.
This one-sheet wonder is called The Sheet’s the Stage. The project was designed by Paula Beardell Krieg and appears in The Art of Papercraft (although it looks like Sarah gave the project her own twist). Sarah sent it as a card to a young friend, telling her to use it as a stage for her finger puppets.
© Sarah Knight, 5-1/2″ x 6″, Astrobright paper, Marimekko postcard, corrugated craft cardboard and paste paper by Madeleine Durham. 2022. Photo by Sarah Knight.
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Paper Tidbits:I’m honored to be co-jurying a show with Alicia Bailey for the Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Pulp: Book & Paper Arts seeks innovative or traditional explorations of Book Arts (of any material or medium), or of Paper Arts, and Paper Sculptures, including paper objects, book art related objects, altered books, and sculptural and wall-mounted pieces, as well as more traditional artists’ books, letterpress printing and bookbinding.I’m so excited that several paper enthusiasts I’ve met online and in person are coming to Italy with me this fall. At this retreat, you will explore the potential of paper as a basic material and a medium for creative pursuits with four internationally-known instructors, Helen Hiebert (owner of Helen Hiebert Studio), Amanda Degener (co-founder of Cave Paper), Carol Barton (paper engineer and owner of Popular Kinetics Press), and Denise Carbone (University of the Arts, Philadelphia). More info here.
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In the Studio:I printed out the text that will appear on my upcoming lantern installation to see how it would look and then wrapped it around these buckets (it wouldn’t stand up otherwise) to get a visual of the diameter the lantern. I’m gearing up to start construction this coming Friday in Denver. Read the press release about my residency at Anythink Wright Farms.
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