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May 26, 2018
Books about Pop-Ups
May 27, 2018
Paper of the Week: Five Books about Pop-UPs
Who doesn’t love a pop-up book? Talk about page turners! Here’s a unique selection of books that focus on what goes into creating pop-ups and movable books. Grab some supplies and get popping!
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In the Studio: Paper Talk
I had a lovely visit/podcast interview with Pat & Peter Gentenaar in The Netherlands in March. I hope you’ll listen to our discussion over on Paper Talk. Peter & Pat met in the late 60’s at the California College of Arts & Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in Oakland and settled in the Netherlands shortly afterwards. Peter talks about how the struggle to make three dimensional prints led him to envision making his own paper, and how an introduction to commercial papermaking at the Royal Dutch Paper Factory got him started. Pat talks about how studying fiber arts at CCA with well-known fiber artist Trude Gueromonprez ultimately led her to creating pulp paintings before there was even a name for the technique. We discuss how they navigated the financial support system for Dutch artists, raised two daughters, and restored the historic farmhouse where they still live and work.
Papery Tidbits:
I’m updating my website and have added The Paper Shop, which features studio samples, papers and more. Take a peek!
I’m teaching my Paper Illuminated Online Class this summer! Click here to be notified when registration opens June 1st. Class begins in mid-July!
Join me at Idyllwild Arts during the week of July 4th. Find out more about The Potential of Paper and Paper Sculpture.
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While in the Netherlands, we also visited paper artist Petra Poolen in Maastricht. She served us a lovely lunch and we chatted (mostly) about paper (my husband and daughter were troopers). Petra is a member of my facebook group Club Paper and shared this lovely lamp with us over there. Join us over in Club Paper if you’d like!
“Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” a recently opened exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. takes a look at historic and contemporary examples of the medium of paper silhouettes. I was interested to learn that this form of portraiture was fairly egalitarian: for a penny, you could cut your own silhouette (with a physiognotrace – a tracing device), or for a quarter, you could have your profile professionally cut and mounted in a wooden frame.
Unidentified Artist, Flora and Bill of Sale, 1796. Courtesy of the Stratford Historical Society and the National Portrait Gallery.
Sky Goodies makes the cutest DIY paper objects! Check out their Etsy shop and here’s a lovely video about the company.
And on the topic of Pop-Ups! The Movable Book Society is the organization dedicated to paper engineering. They’re meeting in Kansas City, MO at the end of September, and I’m going! Check out the line-up of speakers and events and register! I’m teaching a couple of post-event workshops the day after the conference at the Kansas City Center for Ink & Paper Arts (all are welcome).
This is a fascinating article about the history of paper clothing in the West (I specify, because paper thread’s beginnings were in the East). I knew about the dresses in the 60’s, but didn’t realize that paper suits (and more) were created after WWI!
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May 19, 2018
Four Years of The Sunday Paper!
May 20, 2018
Paper of the Week: The Sunday Paper
HaPpy BiRtHdAy to The Sunday Paper which is 4 years old today! I have so enjoyed sharing papery information with you every week for the past four years, and I look forward to doing so for many years to come! The Sunday Paper is a resource for ideas and inspiration, all having to do with this amazing material. Each Sunday brings you stories and examples of people doing exciting, innovative, and beautiful things with paper, as well as links to interesting paperfacts from around the globe.
You can wish The Sunday Paper a HaPpy BiRtHdAy by:
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In the Studio:
I am in the process of revamping my website, and I wanted to share a new section with you. The Paper Shop features studio samples, papers and more. Take a peek!
Papery Tidbits
I’m teaching my Paper Illuminated Online Class this summer! Click here to be notified when registration opens June 1st. Class begins in mid-July!
Join me at Idyllwild Arts during the week of July 4th. Find out more about The Potential of Paper and Paper Sculpture.
Visit The Paper Shop, my new online store.
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Everything is finally in bloom here at 7,000 feet. Tanya shared her lovely paper flowers (created from dictionary pages) over in Club Paper this week. They look so nice in the varying sizes. I found these instructions for making them.
Talk about a pastime. Butch Baker began making a paper chain in 1979, and it is now more than 23-miles long and takes up a corner of the living room of his home.
© Robert Willett for the News Observer, NC
Olli Johnson is making these “kinetic dioramas” that are animated by the turn of a crank and made of layers of cut paper and paper sculptures. Click through the images to get the videos to start playing. They’re the coolest, and they are on view at Workhorse Coffee Bar in St. Paul, MN through May.
This is a great article about the Paper Studio at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. This quote sums up professor Michelle Samour’s teaching practice nicely: Paper is a transformative material,” said Samour, now in her thirty-fourth year guiding SMFA students through the traditions, techniques, craftsmanship, and artistry of hand-made paper. “There is so much problem-solving involved in working with it—and there are so many different ways to use it to create work that pushes its traditions.”
Professor of the Practice Michelle Samour helps Anela Oh, A19, to transfer her handmade paper to a drying area. “Paper is a transformative material,” said Samour. Photo: Anna Miller
I was just checking out the auction items over at the Hand Papermaking online auction, which ends today. There are some great below market value gift certificates and studio experiences that haven’t been bid on (Pyramid Atlantic, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts) (Florida, Rome, Philadelphia, Minneapolis). Click on items for sale to view everything that’s available. How about a papercation?!
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May 12, 2018
FREE Video Tutorial: Shadow Shoji Panel
May 13, 2018
Thanks to everyone who entered the April Twelve Months of Paper Giveaway for a copy of the 2018 Twelve Months of Paper Calendar + a custom paper pack! And the winner is… Antoinette Basso. Congratulations!
Paper of the Week: Japanese Linen + Shoji Paper
This is a new(ish) monthly feature on the blog: a video tutorial featuring a paper + a book + a project. This month’s video shows you how to make a Shadow Shoji Panel. This structure has so much potential: imagine the shapes, sizes and shadows you could create! If you create a shadow shoji panel, please send me a photo!
I mention a few resources in the tutorial:
Paper Illuminated, by Helen Hiebert
Shoji Screen Paper (although you could use almost any paper)
Japanese Linen Paper from Washi Arts (substitute any card stock)
Balsa wood is available at most hobby shops
The glue applicator is from The Lamp Shop
I love this small miter box & hand saw
I’m teaching my Paper Illuminated Online Class this summer! Click here to be notified when registration opens June 1st. Class begins in mid-July!
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In the Studio:
Here’s a sneak peak at the papers that I’m using to create twelve new projects for the 2019 Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. It was fun to pick out the papers, and I can’t wait to share the projects with you!
Papery Tidbits
Do you live in SoCal (or like to travel there) and enjoy working with paper? I’m teaching at Idyllwild Arts during the week of July 4th. Find out more about The Potential of Paper and Paper Sculpture.
I’m teaching my Paper Illuminated Online Class this summer! Click here to be notified when registration opens June 1st. Class begins in mid-July!
Have you checked out the free Facebook group, Club Paper? Join us!
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I’m enjoying seeing the work of the members of Club Paper. Janet Hickey shared a few images, which led me to her website. She created this mixed media piece, Loretta – 202 Pairs of Shoes… None Needed In Heaven, as a tribute to her sister. Click through to read all about how and why she made it.
A student at Northwestern University is starting up an origami club, which is cool. But even cooler is the paper engineering he did to create the announcement about the club. The sheets were printed strategically so that you can read the message on the wings after the cranes are folded. I’d give him an A for ingenuity!
Aren’t these cards precious? Martha Starke collects flowers, herbs, ferns and leaves — mostly from her own garden, but also from the sides of roads and fields, and even when she’s on vacation. When the flowers are fully dried and flattened, she picks them apart and moves them around with her fingers or a pair of tweezers until she finds the perfect design. Still need a Mother’s Day card?
Find these cards, including this one called ‘Expectations,’ in Martha Starke’s Etsy shop.
Welcome to the world of paper… this is the inviting headline on the Center for Papirkunst in Denmark‘s home page. I look forward to visiting this place on my next visit to Europe.
Check out the paper goodies over at the Hand Papermaking online auction. You’ll find a fabulous selection of papers, fibers, books, studio experiences & more!
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May 5, 2018
Twelve Months of Paper Giveaway
May 6, 2018
Paper of the Week: It’s Giveaway Time Again!
Click through to win! The Twelve Months of Paper is a how-to book and calendar all-in-one. The winner will also receive a custom paper pack containing the papers you need to create the projects in the calendar. This 2018 calendar is filled with twelve fun paper projects for the whole family to create together. 12 months and 12 projects feature a list of materials and tools you’ll need to complete the projects, plus step-by-step photos, templates and easy-to-follow instructions.
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In the Studio:
I have been having fun with my new 12″ x 18″ mould & deckle and a new watermark stencil. I now have two 12″ x 18″ moulds which makes double couched sheets so much easier to make! So far I’ve made a pure watermark and several double-sided sheets with a base layer and a thin veil of pulp on top of the mould with the watermark. Here you see how the wet sheet flopped over onto itself when I lifted off the top felt. I love how this looks against the back side of the sheet, and this is giving me more creative ideas! Next up: abaca + the stenciled design.
I’ll have a selection of these sheets in my online paper sale this summer!
Papery Tidbits:
Did you catch the latest book round-up: Books about Japanese Paper?
Have you checked out my free Facebook group, Club Paper? Join us!
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I’m loving the work of Eleanore Mikus, whom I just discovered this week. I’m dying to know how she stumbled upon abaca (anybody know)? Her wooden tablets are inspiring too.
Eleanore Mikus, no title, 2010. Crayon on hand-folded abaca, 19-1/8″ by 19″. Robert Wedemeyer / Marc Selwyn Fine Art
This is a great (and heartening) article about youngsters who are keeping traditional trades alive (in England). Check them out: a leather worker, globe maker, clog maker, wheelwright, and a papermaker!
“In a way, this is blissful. I’m allowed to take my time here, and it’s so peaceful” Zoe Collis
This has got to be the one of the coolest job titles ever: Rachel Brandzel Weil is The Letter Farmer. Her pop-up mobile paper, stationery and letter-writing business is a convenient one-stop letter writing opportunity that highlights and reminds people of the critical expression of the hand written word (not to mention the the high quality, unique stationery materials she puts in peoples hands). She’s in Seattle, has anyone visited?
This week over in Club Paper, we’re creating a virtual paper quilt. I invited members to add sheets of paper that they like, they’ve made, or that is part of something else. It’s still growing, and I hope you’ll join us!
If you enjoy reading about the history of hand papermaking, The Legacy Press has just published a new book about Hayle Mill in England. The Green Family of Papermakers & Hayle Mill is authored by Maureen P. Green.
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April 28, 2018
Japanese Paper
March 25, 2018
Paper of the Week: Five Books about Japanese Paper
A brief trip to Japan in 1989 secured my desire to learn how to make paper. I haven’t returned (yet) but Japan will always hold a dear place in my heart. Here are some of the books on my shelf, and I do hope to return to Japan one day soon!
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In the Studio: Club Paper!
I started a facebook group this week, and you’re invited! If you already follow me on FB, that’s my FB Page. Club Paper is my FB Group. This is a place to share what you’re working on, get encouragement when you need a little push, be inspired with new ideas, tips, tricks, books & supplies. Together we’re building a paper community, one sheet at a time! I hope you’ll join us!
Papery Tidbits:
Have you listened to the latest episode of Paper Talk with Mina Takahashi?
Join Club Paper now, before you forget!
Hop on over to youtube to watch this video about a pulp stencilled handmade paper I created this week
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Check out the Takeo Paper Show at Japan House Los Angeles. I’ve never heard of this paper show, but now it’s on my radar! It is Japan’s only paper industry show dedicated to the universe of paper, making a significant contribution to paper culture, highlighting innovation in the material and manipulation of paper.
Paper Flower / Haruka Misawa / Takeo Paper Show / photo by amana group
I missed the movie Paddington 2, but love that the storyline is based on the discovery of an old pop-up book! The paper engineering was done by David Hawcock (and this link takes you to a great blog called Best Pop-Up Books).
I just discovered the work of Hungarian artist Vera Molnar, who was among the first artists to explore and develop the strange new world of computer technology. Vera Molnar: Drawings 1949-1986 is on view at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery in New York until 12 May. The gallery is also showing a selection of her handmade paper works, created between 1949 and 1970. Let me know if you go see them; I couldn’t find any images of the handmade pieces online!
Image: Vera Molnar, courtesy of Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
This week over in Club Paper, I invited members to introduce themselves, and I found out about blog reader Leslie Edwards Humez’ piece Pulp Fiction. The paper dress is crafted from hundreds of reused coffee filters! You have to click on this link and scroll down to read the back story of this project and the lovely essay that relates to the piece!
Here is a series of folded paper in motion by Ekaterina Lukasheva, a Moscow-based paper artist that you don’t want to miss! Scoll down at the link to see the videos.
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April 21, 2018
Floral Lantern
Paper of the Week: Reminiscence Papers – Narcissus White
I’m working on designs for the 2019 Twelve Months of Paper this week. I pulled all of my decorative papers out of the flat files in order to choose the right paper for each project. Here’s a floral lantern featuring a pretty printed design from Reminiscence Papers. I must be wishing for spring, because we woke up to snow again yesterday here in the Colorado rockies!
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In the Studio: New Episode on Paper Talk Featuring Mina Takahashi
Paper Talk is my monthly podcast series featuring artists and professionals who are working in the field of hand papermaking. This month I interviewed Mina Takahashi. Mina reveals how a college internship in Philadelphia planted the seed for her career in hand papermaking, she talks about a key moment when a Japanese papermaker showed her his hands and she understood what it means to dedicate yourself to a process, material and way of life, and she discusses her visit to a Thai village where they made hospital gowns out of handmade paper. We also talk about her work as an advocate and promoter for hand papermaking as an artistic medium as director of Dieu Donne Papermill and her current position as editor of Hand Papermaking Magazine. Have a listen!
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Papery Tidbits:
Did you catch my free video tutorial on how to make a Wavy Circular Paper Weaving last week?
I enjoyed this Six-Fold, Flat-Fold, Paper-Fold over on Playful Book Binding and Paper Works.
Cave Paper has reached the half-way mark in their Indiegogo campaign to transition to a Co-op. There are some wonderful papery perks! Have you pledged?
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This is a fascinating story about a comic book artist in Hawaii who was charged with the task of copying a sacred Guan Dai painting that was peeling and fading due to the proximity to the ocean and to the effects of incense often burned on the altar in front of the painting. I have more questions after reading the article. What would a conservator think? What does it mean to recreate instead of replace in today’s consumer society?
Sean Starwars is exhibiting currently at Pyramid Atlantic, a nonprofit contemporary art center fostering the creative disciplines of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts within a collaborative community in historic Hyattsville, Maryland. The title of the article calls him an ‘Outlaw Printmaker’ which I’m guessing relates to this quote by the artist: “Somewhere along the way, I realized that I could accomplish my goals as an artist without enslaving myself to the meticulous obsessions of ‘traditional’ printmaking.” I love his prints!
From outlaw to underdog! I had to think about why the reporter called papermaking an underdog art in his intro, but nevertheless this is a terrific video about ‘The Power of Paper’ and Frontline Arts.
Here’s an unusual style of cardboard art by Zoey Taylor and David Connelly at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles.
Corey Helford Gallery/An image of Corey Helford Gallery’s “Paper-Thin Hotel,” a solo exhibition from Dosshaus, the artistic collaboration of Zoey Taylor and David Connelly.
I love how life works! I was in the middle of putting this post together when I received an e-mail from a paper friend and colleague who sent over a link to this video in which a paper conservator talks about restoring old paper documents (as opposed to copying, which was referenced above). Watch to the end, when the interviewer asks the conservator what he would tell people working on paper if he could be sent back in time (Hint: it has something to do with hemp).
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April 14, 2018
Free Video Tutorial: Wavy Circular Paper Weaving
April 15, 2018
Thanks to everyone who entered the March Twelve Months of Paper Giveaway for a chance to win a set of Madeleine Durham’s Paste Papers! And the winner is … Sheila Wood. Congratulations!
Paper of the Week: Map Paper + Mingei
This is a new monthly feature on the blog: a video tutorial featuring a paper + a book + a project. This month’s video shows you how to make a Wavy Circular Paper Weaving. I love using maps in paper projects, and I stumbled across a great book filled with printed maps that you tear out and unfold. It’s a really clever design for a book of papers (you’ll see the book in the video), but that’s another topic.
I mention a few resources in the tutorial:
The Book: Maps: Gift and Creative Paper Book by Pepin van Roojen (there are other books of paper in this series that you might like)
The Orange Mingei Backed Japanese Paper is from Washi Arts
The glue applicator is from The Lamp Shop
Click here if you’d like more information about the Paper Weaving online class
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In the Studio:
I guess I’ve got circles on my mind! Here’s a drawing I’m working on for a new watermarked handmade paper. I’m preparing this drawing to be cut in vinyl. The circles will be cut out; I will adhere the resulting web of vinyl to my papermaking mould; and when I pull the sheets, a watermark will appear. Stay tuned!
Papery Tidbits
I really enjoyed this Episode 30 of the Business of Craft Podcast which featured Help Heal Veterans , an organization that provides free therapeutic craft kits for veterans.
There’s one spot left in the September 11-13 session of the Red Cliff Paper Retreat. Could it be yours?
Do you live in SoCal (or like to travel there) and enjoy working with paper? I’m teaching at Idyllwild Arts during the week of July 4th. Find out more about The Potential of Paper and Paper Sculpture.
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On the topic of paper weaving, check out these woven photographs by Korean artist Seung Hoon Park.
As a consumer, I appreciate crowdfunding campaigns. Not only do you get to support a project, but you also get perks. Cave Paper is an organization that I’m particularly fond of (they make some of the toughest, most beautiful papers on the planet – I’m serious)! They’re at a crossroads at the moment. Please watch the video at this link and consider joining their campaign. The perks include a set of their gorgeous papers and all sorts of other things ranging from $5 to $1500.
This is such a lovely story about a gesture a child in Utah made that gave an adult an idea, and together they’re on a mission to create 3600 origami flowers for the survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
© Isaac Hale for The Daily Herald
I love this headline: Stealing Design Secrets from Unexpected Master of Origami. That master would be the earwig. Using computer simulations, a team of scientists at ETH Zurich and Purdue University recently studied the complex folding behavior of this master. Their results, published in a recent issue of Science, expand the possibilities of synthetic origami systems like solar sails, bendable electronic displays, and even some biomedical devices.
The 3-D-printed imitation of the earwig wing can be folded as compact as its natural counterpart. However, the automatic folding function so far only works in the simplified prototypes. Image Credit: ETH Zurich.
Check this out: a paper airplane folding machine. The machine is made of various elements, including Legos, and the paper airplane takes flight at the end!
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April 7, 2018
Paste Paper Giveaway
April 8, 2018
Paper of the Week: It’s Giveaway Time Again!
Click through to win! Madeleine Durham create’s playful one-of-a-kind paste papers using a brush technique which blends multiple colors while creating dynamic yet tranquil patterns. Her papers have been used by fine book binders and calligraphers around the world. They also lend themselves well to covering boxes and using in collage. Her papers are created on Arches text wove using Golden acrylics and Shofu wheat paste. Madeleine’s Paste Papers are loved by people around the globe and she is sure you will enjoy this lovely of group primo scraps (valued at $100.00).
Madeleine Durham Paste Papers is the April sponsor for the Twelve Months of Paper
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Out of the Studio:
I’m flying back to the states and should be home sweet home by the time you read this. We spent the last week in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany with our daughter and friends I met during my own college exchange program over 30 years ago. They took a short vacation this week, and we were dog- and house-sitters.
Papery Tidbits:
Did you catch the latest book round-up: Best Paper Lampshade Books?
The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists is meeting in Bulgaria this spring. Registration is open for two more weeks!
Have you listened to the latest podcast episode on Paper Talk, featuring Sue Gosin, founder of Dieu Donné Papermill?
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Local environmental and artistic organizations will collaborate on a project highlighting the importance of pollinators in the environment when the Sun Valley Center for the Arts unveils its next BIG IDEA project, “Bees,” this coming Friday in Ketchum, ID. Thousands of paper bees have been cut from the handmade sheets with embedded seeds and adorn the walls of The Center’s gallery. The remaining bees will be placed on The Center lot in Ketchum this summer, alongside other plant starts and seeds, to emerge into a pollinator pasture.
Cameron Cartiere and the chART Collective, “All Is for Yourself” laser-cut handmade paper, seeds, birch plywood.
The SLOW READ is a literary/art project honoring the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Willa Cather’s novel, “My Ántonia”. Artist Barb Tetenbaum has been exploring the pages of this novel for several years now, and she needs our help (here’s a link to her Kickstarter campaign + a video about the project) for the next iteration. High quality images from the book’s first edition will be projected at public sites in Nebraska, Oregon and beyond. The entire novel will be revealed page-by-page starting in late May and ending in August. Three or more page spreads will be available daily for both unsuspecting passersby to stumble upon and Cather devotees to return to and punctuate each day of their summer.
In case spring hasn’t sprung in your part of the world, check out these amazing paper bouquets by Lea Gray over at Paper Blooms.
You know that saying about a round peg fitting in a square hole? I don’t recall them saying anything about folding the paper… here’s how you can create the trick!
Ellen Rubin is known as The Popuplady. Here’s a short video about the collection she has amassed over the years.
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March 31, 2018
Paper Art, Architecture & Cinematography
April 1, 2018
Paper of the Week: Lokta Paper Makes a Comeback
A women dries the papers during the making process of Nepali paper at her workshop in Nayapati, Sundarijal on Saturday. Post Photo: Anish Regmi
I’ve always loved photos like this, depicting sheets of paper drying outside on screens. I’ve written lokta factories before, which were abundant and thriving over a decade ago in Nepal. But they slowly withered and ultimately pulled down their shutters due to lack of human resources, shortage of raw materials, high production cost and effects of Maoist conflict. These factories are now back in business and are creating jobs for locals.
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Out of the Studio: Visiting Hand Papermakers
I visited with three paper artists in Holland: Petra Poolen and Peter Gentenaar & Patricia Torley. Here’s a studio view showing the sculpture and paintings of Peter & Pat.
Papery Tidbits:
If I were in the Bay Area this week, I’d go see Lisa Kokin’s new shredded money pieces at Seager/Gray Gallery.
Paper/Print, curated by Susan Gosin & Mina Takashashi opens on April 5th at the International Print Center New York.
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Check out these amazing paper sculptures! Leo Garcia Mendez and Raya Sader Bujana are two Venezuelan artists – one creates tiny realistic constructions in paper and the other takes beautiful photographs.
From a story by Laura Collinson featured on Creative Boom
This is a great idea and great community organization name: Paperworkers Local is an Alabama group that banded together to form a workspace for artists working on paper.
The artists at Paperworkers Local in Birmingham work with a wide variety of styles and subjects. (Karim Shamsi-Basha/Alabama NewsCenter)
Into the Fold: The Art & Science of Origami, is now on view at the Science Museum Oklahoma. “All these folds, they have mathematical computations… a lot of these mathematicians and artists have come up with ways, these folding patterns, to really create any object that you can think of, just by folding a single piece of paper. That takes a lot of math.”
Artist Eric Gjerde employed an estimated 19,000-plus folds and about a month’s worth of time folding to create his 80-foot-long “Dragon Helix” on view in Science Museum Oklahoma’s new exhibit “Into the Fold: The Art and Science of Origami.” [Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman]
Did you know that there is a Guild of Papermakers? It is based in Philadelphia, and here is a little history. The first meeting was held at the papermaking barn of Historic RittenhouseTown, also in Philadelphia, in the fall of 1991. Over the years, the group of 50 – 60 artists has continued to meet almost bi-monthly, held studio and gallery visits, sponsored workshops with several nationally known paper artists, and has held an annual all member Paper Awareness exhibitions.
Guild of Papermakers recent Paper Awareness exhibition at the Abington Art Center
This is a lovely gesture by a student at Seton Hall University. Daniel Kim has launched an origami challenge to students and staff to recycle their old essays, syllabi, and other scraps of paper and turn them into one thousand cranes symbolizing a communal wish for a greener campus and planet. The Ecology Club is erecting a bamboo structure, and origami makers are invited to hang their creations there. Hopefully they’ll publish a photo!
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March 24, 2018
Papierwerk Glockenbach
March 25, 2018
Paper of the Week: Five Books about Paper Lampshades
Paper and light have been a fascination since the beginning of my career. From folding screens to hot air balloons, lamps and lanterns to kites, there are numerous ways to view paper activated by light. This is a round-up of a few books I’ve collected over the years.
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Out of the Studio: Papierwerk Glockenbach
I had the pleasure of visiting a new paper studio in Munich this week: Papierwerk Glockenbach. Annemaria Bar gave me a tour, and we had a lovely visit. The facility offers workshops, an open studio and they have a little gallery in their fully equipped professional papermaking studio.
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Some of us understand more than others how hard it is to make a buck. A family of Venezuelan immigrants to Colombia are repurposing what they deem as worthless bolivars (bucks) into origami-made paper wallets, belts and even purses as the currency plunges further in value. The technique looks like gum wrapper paper chains – did you make those as a kid?
I love these unique cut and layered paper pieces by artist Dylan Metrano.
Origami is being transformed into a engineering discipline, how cool is that? The ancient art of paper folding is showing promise for new technology that ranges from cancer-fighting drugs to foldable armor for police officers, and Suyi Li at Clemson University is hoping to take the practice to the next level in a new research project. His motto: Keep Calm and Origami On!
Suyi Li, center, works in his Clemson University lab with Ph.D. students Priyanka Bhovad, right, and Sahand Sadeghi. Image Credit: Clemson University
Art on Paper was recently in Manhattan. Did anyone get to it?
Megan Rye, “Foundling: Paintings Inspired by Adoption Referral Photographs” (2018)
What a fun story about Bette Nesmith Graham, the inventor of Liquid Paper. “An artist never corrects by erasing, but always paints over the error.”
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