Paper Circle
The Sunday Paper #95
Paper of the Week: O-gami Paper from Paper Circle
O-Gami paper was originally developed for origami folders, but has many uses for anyone who works with paper. Each 22″ x28″ abaca sheet is archival, prized for its amazing strength and ability to withstand water, and in the case of the super-thins, its tissue-like thinness. Paper Circle offers a pallete of about 30 colors and sample booklets are available. O-Gami is available in two surface types (mattes and lusters) and three thicknesses: super thin (23 gsm) or medium (46 gsm) or super thick (72 gsm) and is the only paper of its kind available online.
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Sponsor of the Week: Paper Circle
Registration is now open for Paper Circle’s second “In, On, Of Paper” juried exhibition. Tom Balbo of the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland will juror all the paper, print and book arts submissions, and Robert Lang will juror the origami submissions. There will be first place prizes for both categories. A new Awagami prize has just been added. Submit your handmade paper, paper sculpture, origami, artist’s books, cut paper, stitched paper, and works on paper!
The entry deadline is July 15 and the show opens September 5, 2016.
Trusu Salt by Melanie Munns , courtesy of Paper Circle
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In the Studio:
I’ve been busy finishing up an edition of one of my artist’s books, Alpha, Beta, … which required recreating a paper that I developed several years ago, this alphabet paper. These sheets are saturated with pigment in order to achieve the deep wine color, and I like how the watermark appears subtly on the paper’s surface. This is an edition of 25 and features a unique Japanese hinge that flexes in both directions. Click here for more info.
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You HAVE to watch this charming video about Paper Circle, ‘nuf said!
One of my favorite parts of teaching is getting to meet other artists. I met Deborah Ugoretz at The Center for Book Arts in NYC last fall and found about about her work with cut paper. I recommend that you spend a bit of time on her website. I particularly liked this sentiment from her artist statement: “My expressive work deals with the dynamic balance between what is known and what is mysterious. I do this by exploring opposites such as negative and positive space, complementary colors or through an odd juxtaposition of images. I use the color spectrum as a vehicle through which the mysterious makes itself visible. For, if pure white light that we do not see, represents a spiritual force we cannot explain, then the colors of the spectrum are the way that this force is revealed to us”.
© Deborah Ugoretz, Sinking Roots
What will they come up with next? This is so clever: origami boats infused with insect repellent. A group of students at National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) recently won an award for their design of a foldable paper boat infused with a herbal insect repellent. Their project, titled Hope Offer, is aimed at helping to eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes in underdeveloped countries. How timely!
You may have seen this love stamp, but did you notice that it is quilled paper? Here’s a nice article about how the artist Yulia Brodskaya contemplated her design.
I enjoyed this article and video about the new Book Bikes (libraries on wheels) in New Zealand.
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About our sponsor: Paper Circle is a non-profit paper, print and book arts organization located in southeast Ohio. All proceeds from the exhibit go to support their mission of providing living-wages and free exhibition space for artists, holistic, arts-based enrichment programming for under-served teen and youth, educational opportunities for community, and enhancing the creative economy of the region by creating products that support their mission. Like them on FB!
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