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Scary Pop-Ups + Soul Boxes

The Sunday Paper #278

September 22, 2019

Paper of the Week: Abaca: The Incredible Shrinking Translucent Sculptural Material

We had a blast at the 6th annual Red Cliff Paper Retreat! I love the in depth bonds that 14 artists can form during a week together as we share meals, learn about each other, make paper, and explore new techniques and ideas with likeminded people in a remote setting.

This was a popular form we explored as we thought about what a container/vessel holds (feelings, objects, ideas). It is also a one-sheet wonder!

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In the Studio:

Every year I freak out a little before the retreat, when I try to imagine a large group in my studio. But with scheduled work sessions and a maximum of 6 in the studio at a time, it always works out.

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Papery Tidbits:

Did you listen to me talking about my installation Look Inside?
Madeleine Durham talks about her unique paste papers on Paper Talk.

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More and more people are making a business out of making paper. How cool is that? Check out Pressed Paper in San Antonio.

Poposition Press publishes limited edition art pop-up books and prints, and they have a new pop-up card out just in time for Halloween.

Check it out! A Michigan paper mill has converted hemp stalks grown and pulped in Colorado into rolls of hemp paper, marking an industry milestone for integrated industrial hemp processor PureHemp Technology.

This is powerful. 3000 origami Soul Boxes initiated by artist Leslie Lee represent the number of people killed by gunfire in the U.S. every month. Since the project began in October 2017, the project has received more than 60,000 boxes. Touch paper, not guns!

Three thousand Soul Boxes are on display through Aug. 8 at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle to represent the approximate number of people who die by gunfire in the U.S. in an average month. (Emily Watrous)

Bluecat Paper in Bangalore, India produces paper through recycling, upcycling and conserving water, while stepping back in time to paper made from tree-free fibers like it was prior to 1790.

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! A big thank you to all who have sent recent submissions. I’m a bit behind in photographing and sharing, but will do so soon!

I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling (I have enough of these)
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

Deadline: October 15, 2019

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

The Text Ball, an artist’s book, The Papermaker’s Studio Guide download, Mother Tree an installation, and a detail of YoungMi Pak’s shadow lantern, created in my Flexible Book Structures online class (inspired by the crack patterns she saw on her street).

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

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Look Inside

The Sunday Paper #277

September 15, 2019

Paper of the Week: Look Inside

Last weekend, I was a guest artist at Anything Wright Farms, a library in Denver, for their 10th Anniversary event, Sparkopolis. I set up my installation, Look Inside, between the bookshelves, creating an alley that visitors walked into. They were invited to ponder and write about the way they see themselves, to look inside. It was such a meaningful experience that I made a mini recording with my artist friend who attended the event with me. Take a look and a listen!

 

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Out of the Studio:

A visitor to my installation Look Inside asked me whether I’d visited The Empathy Museum. It turns out, it is a traveling exhibition that is in Denver for the month. Based on her explanation, I looked it up and visited before heading back to Edwards and what a treat it was! I spent 10 minutes literally walking in someone else’s shoes. It was so cool: you walk into a giant shoe box and tell the “clerk” what size shoe you wear. She gave me a pair of shoes, along with an ipod with the recording of a story about someone who has overcome an adversity. The shoes belonged to the woman whose story I listened to – an amputee in Denver who finished an ironman race. The length of the stories are all about 10 minutes, which is about how long it takes to walk a mile. So, you can literally walk a mile in someone else’s shoes! LOVED it, and it is up for just a couple of weeks, so if you’re in Denver, go see it!

 

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Papery Tidbits:

At the time of publication, my annual Red Cliff Paper Retreat is in full swing. Intrigued? Read all about it here; the next retreat will be announced in December.
The Paper Year is coming soon!

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I’m delighted to feature Madeleine Durham on Paper Talk! Listen to her amazing story about finding her way through paste painting and discovering her unique style.

Alicia Bailey of Abecedarian Gallery curates shows around various themes and artist’s books. I’m honored to be one of the artists in the current exhibition, Narrative Threads, at the Durango Arts Center. Here you see a series of my string drawings in abaca.

This book is interesting, although I hope the papermakers are safe! They are making paper for a book created with paper made out of rice straw grown on decontaminated fields near Fukushima.

Tomomi Hanzawa attended my retreat last year, and this beautiful video documents the work she made for a current exhibition (which I hope to see when I’m in Japan). It has beautiful imagery, music and words.

Check out this papel picado at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia where Mexican and Mexican-American artists invite you to break down walls with new interactive art.

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! A big thank you to all who have sent recent submissions. I’m a bit behind in photographing and sharing, but will do so soon!

I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling (I have enough of these)
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

Deadline: October 15, 2019

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Vertices, an artist’s book, Water Paper Time download, Alpha, Beta, …, an artist’s book, my Woven Paper Lantern online class.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

SHARE THIS blog post with your paper-loving friends!

The Paper Year is Coming Soon!

The Sunday Paper #276

September 8, 2019

Paper of the Week: The Paper Year! 

I received a printed proof of The Paper Year this week and had to make a video to show it to you! Marketing people tell me to make short videos, but I trust that you, dear reader, have a long enough attention span to watch and listen to me for 2 minutes and 46 seconds (feedback welcome). Copies of The Paper Year will be available in a couple of weeks.

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In the Studio:

I’m writing this on Friday, but you won’t see it until Sunday (or later), and in between, I exhibited an interactive piece at an event in Denver called Sparkopolis. I created a round tablecloth with stitched words on it: self, relationship/s, family, community/ies, world, universe and hung 6 inflatable spheres above it which you can peer inside. When you Look Inside (that’s the title of the installation), there are mirrors in the back of each sphere. I will invite people at the event to write their reflections of what they think when they look inside of themselves in relationship to the 6 words. Stay tuned for photos next week, and we’ll see if they look anything like what I’ve described here!

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Papery Tidbits:

Have you listened to my interview with Melanie Brauner on Paper Talk?
Does anyone know The Paper Airplane Guy personally? I’d like to get in touch with him.

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There is such a variety of pulp painting! Indiana-based artist Terry Lacy uses handmade paper — the process of dipping and applying a wet pulp of pigmented cotton or other plant fibers — as a medium. As a result, his landscapes features irregular feathered edges that follow the contours of the images and are unique to the medium. She has work in this show.

Paula Beardell Krieg just told me about this Hidden Box structure she’s teaching at the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC in October. 

This lecture happened yesterday in Decorah, IA, but I like the image so I’m sharing. Mary Hark and Maria Amalia Wood both talked about their work with handmade paper and other materials. 

What a fascinating exhibition: Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at the National Galleries of Scotland features the first comprehensive museum survey of the history of the technique.

A scrap-work screen by William Macready and Charles Dickens. Photo: Josie Elias, National Galleries of Scotland.

There are two paper beauties in this feature from This Is Colossal. I especially like the spinning zoetrope built from cut paper!

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! A big thank you to all who have sent recent submissions. I’m a bit behind in photographing and sharing, but will do so soon!

I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling (I have enough of these)
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

Deadline: October 15, 2019

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Vertices, an artist’s book, Water Paper Time download, Alpha, Beta, …, an artist’s book, my Woven Paper Lantern online class.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

SHARE THIS blog post with your paper-loving friends!

Bookbinding Anime

The Sunday Paper #275

September 1, 2019

Paper of the Week: Twinrocker Handmade Paper

It’s been a whirlwind week with visits to my parents-in-law, dropping our daughter off at Augustana College, lecturing at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis and a trip to Dolphin Papers. A highlight was a visit to Twinrocker Handmade Paper, where I spent a few hours with the founders, Kathryn and Howard Clark, who will be featured on an upcoming episode of Paper Talk.

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Out of The Studio: At Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

I spent last Monday at the Herron School of Art and Design, where I got to see the exhibition, The Alchemy of Paper, featuring many friends and colleagues. I posted some videos on instagram, and this photo depicts the installation Twofold Path by Meda and Veda Rives.

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Papery Tidbits:

Have you listened to my interview with Melanie Brauner on Paper Talk?

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Oh my goodness, there’s an anime series about bookbinding, and look! She’s making paper. It’s a story about a girl who loves books and ends up in a place where there aren’t any so she makes her own. I can’t wait to watch this.

Tasmanian artist Pam Thorne is making her own burial shroud out of knitted handmade. I like the idea of spending time creating something to reside in after life, plus natural burial sounds appealing.

Check it out! Robox is a fun and playful paper promotional piece produced by Boss Print and featured on Paper Specs.

This show of maps at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas looks amazing. These works on paper from the 1500’s are so delicate that they are only allowed to be put on display for nine months out of 10 years.

This large, watercolor map of Teozacoalco — made from 23 sheets of European paper pasted together — was created in 1580 by an unknown artist. The figures in the column on the left represent 10 generations of local rulers, the curator explains, including a series of footprints to indicate a marriage alliance with a neighboring town. BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART

This is a lovely article about Ise Katagami stencils, the traditional paper stencils treated with persimmon juice that are used for dyeing cloth with intricate patterns and designs.

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling (I have enough of these)
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

Deadline: October 15, 2019

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Vertices, an artist’s book, The Papermaker’s Studio Guide download, Alpha, Beta, …, an artist’s book, my Woven Paper Lantern online class.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

SHARE THIS blog post with your paper-loving friends!

Verso Jewelry on Paper Talk

The Sunday Paper #274

August 25, 2019

Paper of the Week: Melanie Brauner’s Paper Jewelry

Melanie Brauner is an artist in the Pacific Northwest who makes lovely hand dipped paper & metal jewelry. She grew up around artists, makers and craftspeople, and she never questioned whether she could be an artist and make a living. She learned to make paper with me at the Oregon College of Art & Craft, where she studied book arts and metals. We talk about how her business took off after she started wearing her jewelry around campus – people were buying the pieces she was wearing – and how she’s built a super successful jewelry business with her work in over 50 retail shops around the country. Enjoy our conversation!

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Out of The Studio: My Lecture in Indianapolis

I am lecturing about my work at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis tomorrow: Monday, August 26th. There is a reception at 4:30 and the lecture is at 6pm. This is open to the public – please join us if you are in the area – I’d love to see you!

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Papery Tidbits:

Looking to work in the world of paper? Dieu Donné Papermill has several job openings!
I’m looking forward to visiting Twinrocker Handmade Paper and Dolphin Papers this week!

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Here’s a clever cartoon that a blog reader sent me a few weeks ago (thanks, Chuck). I’m afraid I cut off (or didn’t receive) the cartoonist’s name. What a great way to break the ice with your doctor!

Did anyone make it to this lantern procession in Olympia, WA last weekend? I love these paper lights from last year’s event!

I enjoyed this story about Shiori Aiba, an adventurous young Japanese woman who studied Material Futures in London and now lives in Berlin where she designs clothes and fashion items using washi (Japanese handmade paper). Check out the jewelry she creates out of layers of colored sheets of paper that are compressed into three-dimensional geometric shapes.

I could watch this for hours. Click through to see it in motion! Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn any sheet of material into any prescribed shape, inspired by the paper craft kirigami (from the Japanese, kiri, meaning to cut and kami, meaning paper).

I’m fascinated by paper stories (can you tell)? This young man from India started folding paper flowers at 9 years of age, and has ended up in NYC making paper creations for all kinds of interesting venues.

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling (I have enough of these)
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

Deadline: October 15, 2019

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Have you made the August project in the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar? Here’s Laurel Rogers version featuring a map paper + machine-made momigami, The Papermaker’s Studio Guide download, Alpha, Beta, …, an artist’s book, my Woven Paper Lantern online class.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

SHARE THIS blog post with your paper-loving friends!

Putting Pen to Paper

The Sunday Paper #273

August 18, 2019

Paper of the Week: Arnold Grummer’s®


Arnold Grummer’s®, the August sponsor of the Twelve Months of Paper, offers easy and successful paper making kits and supplies to use at home, school, and in the community. August 19th is Arnold Grummer’s birthday. To celebrate, the company is offering two Birthday Specials during August:




FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25*. Add promo code ARNOLD25 to your shopping cart at checkout.
GET YOUR BALE OUT! Sale  Get together with paper making friends for the best price ever on a bale of unbleached abaca.

* Sorry, free shipping does not apply to Paper & Book Presses or Abaca Bale Shipments

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In The Studio: Online Paper Sale!

My online sale ends tonight at midnight! Click here to check out the five paper packages featuring flat flax, Papillon Paper notebooks, flax leather, The Maker’s Paper: Sound Blocks and paper cloth.

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Papery Tidbits:

Looking to work in the world of paper? Dieu Donné Papermill has several job openings!
I’m lecturing on August 26th at 6pm at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), 735 West New York Street at the Herron School of Art & Design in the Herron Auditorium. Join me if you’re in the area!

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Check out this gorgeous film about Madeleine Durhams’ paste paper. Ooh la la!

Paper flowers seem to be all the rage these days, and they are more practical than real flowers for many reasons. Hannah Read-Baldrey’s paper flowers (and more) are all over the place. I love the title of her book, Flowerbomb!: 25 beautiful craft projects to blow your blossoms. 

Using plant and animal fiber grown and produced in Wyoming, artist Diana Baumbach and soil scientist Karen Vaughan, both University of Wyoming faculty members, created woven and cut pieces inspired by and representing soil. The numerous intersections between paper and textiles are made visible though the exhibition: Both come from fibrous sources and are manipulated using similar processes such as cutting, weaving and dyeing. On view at the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center through Oct. 9.

Click through to view the incredible drawings of Ed Merlin Murray in motion!

It is heart warming to read that there is still an interest in stationery and letter writing. Sana Khader runs Zannist, a popular store on Instagram, and is passionate about reviving the lost art of letter-writing. She has thousands of instagram followers and was able to pay all the expenses for her last two years in college from the income she generated from her business.

One of the best parts of assembling a book is connecting with other artists. Special thanks to Ginny Moreland, Orna Hatzor, Emily Duong, and Marcello Araldi for these gorgeous paper samples. I’d love to see yours!

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling (I have enough of these)
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

Deadline: October 15, 2019

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

3D vowels (made of paper), The Papermaker’s Studio Guide download, Prism, an artist’s book, my Shadow Ornament online class.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

SHARE THIS blog post with your paper-loving friends!

Online Handmade Paper Sale!

The Sunday Paper #272

August 11, 2019

Online Paper Sale!

Twice a year, I have an on-line paper sale, and the Summer 2019 sale begins now! Click here to check out the five paper packages featuring flat flax, Papillon Paper notebooks, flax leather, The Maker’s Paper: Sound Blocks and paper cloth. The sale runs now through next Sunday, August 18th. Quantities are limited, so order right away to get what you want!

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In The Studio

This week, I had the pleasure of hosting Bing Gong and Eleanore Despina in the studio for a private lesson. Bing took a class with me at Arrowmont several years ago, and the two of them have been setting up their own paper studio in California. We cooked and beat kozo, experimented with internal and external sizing, made cotton and abaca sheets, and more.

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Papery Tidbits:

Have you listened to my podcast interview with Jocelyn Chateauvert?
Join me on August 26th at 6pm for my lecture at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), 735 West New York Street at the Herron School of Art & Design at 6pm in the Herron Auditorium. A selection of my artist’s books will also be exhibited in the library.
Would you be interested in a holiday gift-making online class? This would take place early this fall and would focus on simple paper projects that have been featured in past Twelve Months of Paper calendars. I’m contemplating this – e-mail me if you’re interested.

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This is too cool! In September, Nestlé Japan is switching from plastic to paper packaging for their Kit Kats, and they are encouraging people to reuse the package to fold a paper crane. I’m going to be on the lookout for these when I visit Japan in November!

Ekaterina Lukasheva does amazing things with a single sheet of paper. I’m honored to have her as a project contributor for my upcoming book! Check out this video of her work in motion on My Modern Met.

Lenny Maughan is an avid runner and an artist who makes drawings of his 20-mile runs on paper maps. “I’ll look for patterns in a street map or I’ll try to make a shape fit within the lines of the streets, and then I sketch it out on a paper map with a highlighter. It goes through several iterations before I get it just right.”

I really enjoyed this article about how printmaking became popular after The Great Depression. It’s the story of Reeves Lewenthal, who instead of catering to elites like most dealers, focused on the huge middle-class market of art consumers that remained untapped. His goal was to educate and sell art. Associated American Artists: Prints for the People is on view at the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon) through September 1.

Joseph Hirsch, “Banquet” (1945), lithograph on beige wove paper (Portland Art Museum, gift of Christopher Russell)

I’ve shared this before, but it is worth the repeat! Paper is not dead.

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One of the best parts of assembling a book is connecting with other artists. Special thanks to Nancy Akerly, Jocelyn Chateauvert and Gina Pisello for these gorgeous paper samples. You can help too!

MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, website (if relevant) and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Playing With Pop-Ups, my films about paper, a paper weaving LandEscape, an artist’s book.

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Jocelyn Chateauvert on Paper Talk

The Sunday Paper #271

August 4, 2019

Paper of the Week: Online Paper Sale Preview

Watch the short preview video for my online paper sale which begins next Sunday! Discover unique handmade papers you won’t find anywhere else in the world!

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In The Studio: Jocelyn Chateauvert on Paper Talk

Jocelyn Chateauvert making paper at the 2014 IAPMA Congress in Fabriano, Italy

Jocelyn Chateauvert is a paper artist in South Carolina who manipulates abaca and flax in astounding ways. She discovered hand papermaking while getting an MFA in metals and jewelry at the University of Iowa. We talk about how she started out combining paper and metal, two seemingly disparate materials. Jocelyn then tells me how her work has evolved from jewelry and body adornment, to sculpture, installation, and lighting, and how she has come up with a vocabulary for the more than 50 unique techniques she has developed for manipulating paper. Enjoy our conversation!

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Papery Tidbits:

Would you be interested in a holiday gift-making online class? This would take place early this fall and would focus on simple paper projects that have been featured in past Twelve Months of Paper calendars. I’m contemplating this – e-mail me if you’re interested.
Join me on August 26th at 6pm for my lecture at Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 735 West New York Street at the Herron School of Art & Design at 6pm in the Herron Auditorium. A selection of my artist’s books will also be exhibited in the library.

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Here’s a neat paper infographic about six different California plant species, all with different adaptations to fire. Click through to watch all six of the plants burning. (I can’t find a credit for the artist, but hopefully they were credited in the original article, which appeared in the 2017 March issue of Wired Magazine.)

I’m excited to be going to Penland this fall! I’ll be a guest instructor for a week during Georgia Deal’s Paper & The Unique Print fall concentration workshop at Penland.

Georgia Deal, “Roses & Razorwire,” screenprint and gum transfer on handmade paper, 24 x 30 inches

I would love to stumble across this giant maze at Taipei’s main station. The 7,920 square-foot jungle maze, which was made with four tons of recycled corrugated paper, was built by the Environmental Protection Administration and the Taiwan Paper Industry Association to educate the public on recycling paper properly.

Matthew Shlian never ceases to amaze me in the ways that he transforms paper. I’m looking forward to interviewing him for an episode of Paper Talk this fall! Click through to read and see lots more on My Modern Met. 

This is a wonderful story about Grant Maniér, who started tearing paper as a way to ease his anxieties. Over the years, he started turning his paper scraps (literally) into works of art, and he’s raised more than $250,000 from his artwork to benefit special needs camps, scholarships for students and therapy classes, and more.

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MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Playing With Pop-Ups, my films about paper, a paper weaving LandEscape, an artist’s book.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

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Patchwork Paper

The Sunday Paper #270

July 28, 2019 (Happy 20th to our son Will)

Paper of the Week: 

I wanted to use up some of my paper scraps and came up with a plan to make patchwork papers (there is a fantastic–and very different–tradition in Korea called bojagi). I had an intern compose/design the layout of the sheets, and then he applied a layer of methyl cellulose glue to attach the paper scraps to wet sheets of freshly couched cotton. Two things happened that weren’t so great: some of the scraps stained my felts and the blotters in my drying system (oops!), and several of the thicker scraps didn’t adhere well. So I decided to quilt the papers by running them through my sewing machine.

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In The Studio:

The Twelve Months of Paper is rebranding as The Paper Year in 2020. This will be a 9″ x 7″ wire bound planner with twelve fun paper projects (one for each month). Here you see two covers the designer sent me – I know which one I’m going with, but thought I’d share a bit of the process with you. We’ll wrap up the design phase soon, and then the planner will go to the printer. They’ll be available early this fall!

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Papery Tidbits:

Have you listened to the Paper Talk episode with Drew Matott of Peace Paper?
Would you be interested in a holiday gift-making online class? This would take place early this fall and would focus on simple paper projects that have been featured in past Twelve Months of Paper calendars. I’m contemplating this – e-mail me if you’re interested.
Check out the variety of papermaking workshops offered at Pondside Pulp & Paper in Norwich, NY

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Yama Ploskonka, who runs Papel Texano, is aptly referred to as a a self taught Rube Goldberg/McGiver/mad scientist in this blog post by Peter & Donna Thomas (aka the Wandering Book Artists). You’ll be delighted to see several videos including one of Yama’s washing machine beater,

On Monday, I had the pleasure of visiting Origami In the Garden, just outside of Santa Fe, where these amazing origami sculptures mingle with the arid New Mexican landscape. Here I am with Master Peace Monument, the work of Kevin + Jennifer Box. Folded origami is cast in bronze—here you see 500 cast cranes and 500 in the reflection in the granite base.

A Sunday Paper reader recently turned me onto the work of Anna Maria Scocozza. Check out her poetic wardrobe, which pushes the viewer to question social issues, injustices and marginalization.

© Anna Maria Scocozza, “MemorieAbbandonate-dettaglio” (Abandoned memories-detail), plastic and thread for poetic embroidery, poetic shoes

Take a peek at this sweet packaging made from paper tubes as featured on Paper Specs (they post a new video each week). Scroll down at the link to find some other super cool interactive print pieces.

MY NEW BOOK – I NEED YOU! I’m in the gathering phase for my next book about all kinds of objects you can create with a single sheet of paper. I envision a visual design element that runs through the book and features a gorgeous array of paper. Do you have a sheet or two to send me? I’m looking for samples of the following, and this list is by no means complete. I want to open people’s eyes to what they can do to a sheet of paper, followed by projects showing what they can do with a sheet of paper.

coated papers, such as persimmon, indigo, etc.
dyed papers like itajame, shibori, etc.
paste papers
marbling
simple printing techniques
rubber stamping/mark making
stenciling
dimensional techniques, like embossing, momigami, etc.
unusual techniques
handmade papers (this won’t be a book about how to make paper, but again, I’d like to show readers what is possible).

Guidelines:

8-1/2″ x 11″ samples (more or less)
Please label these on the back of each sheet with your name, e-mail address, and a brief but thorough description including the type of paper, the technique, etc.
Mail to: Helen Hiebert, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632

I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

The Papermaker’s Companion, my films about paper, the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar (now 1/2 price) and 50 Revolutions, an artist’s book.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

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Meet the Pulparazzi!

The Sunday Paper #269

July 21, 2019

Paper of the Week: Italian Crepe Paper

The July project in the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar is a Crepe Paper Flower. Have you created yours? This isn’t the crepe paper you’re thinking of (those rolls of streamers used for decorating staircases and dangling from ceilings). This new top-of-the-line 180 gram Italian crepe paper is thick, pliable and luxurious. You can stretch and manipulate this paper to create interesting forms. This crepe paper is available in a multitude of bright colors from Mulberry Paper and More.

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In The Studio:

Sometimes I make a paper that I just don’t like! Has that happened to you? Today I decided to transform some of these into momigami. I’m applying konnyaku to both sides of these thin cotton/abaca sheets and will then crumple them.

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Papery Tidbits:

Have you listened to the Paper Talk episode with Drew Matott of Peace Paper?
Interested in a papermaking master class? Fill out this survey.

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Pulparazzi, Painting With Paper, is now on view at the Jamestown Arts Center in Rhode Island. The group consists of eight artists, who got together in 2010 in San Antonio during a three-day artists retreat to explore and exchange thoughts on the pulp painting. What an incredibly rich and rewarding experience!

“Blue,” by Michelle Samour is included in the “PULPARAZZI: Painting with Paper” exhibition at the Jamestown Arts Center. Photo: Michael Derr

My husband and I are going to Japan for two short weeks in the late fall. One of the things I’d like to do is visit the factory where Isamu Noguchi’s famous Akari lanterns are produced. Have you been there? I love his sentiment about light: “The word “akari” in Japanese gives the image of sunlight and moonlight pouring out into a room.”

Susan Kristoferson creates gorgeous decorative papers. Her work is currently on view at Framed on Fifth in Calgary for two weeks only. If you’re in the area, I hope you have a chance to stop in!

I don’t understand this report about banana paper, but I like the photo! I think the gist of the report is that there is a growing market for artist papers and commercial products made from banana fiber—if you make it, they will come.

I enjoyed this history of the Monadnock Papermill. They started out making handmade paper 200 years ago!

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

Playing With Paper, my films about paper, the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar (now 1/2 price) and 50 Revolutions, an artist’s book.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Click on the paper button at the left to learn how. Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support!

SHARE THIS blog post with your paper-loving friends!