The Sunday Paper #514
July 14, 2024
I had the pleasure of interviewing Emily Martin on Episode #126 of Paper Speak. Martin has produced greater than fifty artist’s books, typically utilizing movable and/or sculptural paper engineering methods. Her books are included in private and non-private collections all through the world, and he or she has obtained grants and residencies from the School Ebook Arts Affiliation, the Middle for Ebook Arts in New York Metropolis, and the Bodleian Bibliographical Press in Oxford, England amongst others. Martin has two grownup daughters and lives in Iowa Metropolis, IA together with her Vandercook SP15 printing press. She rides her bicycle as typically as she will, typically all the best way throughout the state of Iowa. Get pleasure from our dialog!
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Wish to study to make Japanese paper in Japan? I met Paul Denhoed after we had been each working paper-related jobs in NYC within the mid 1990’s. Paul has been in Japan for over 20 years now, and is providing papermaking workshops at Oguni Mill. Spend six full days there, studying in regards to the conventional craft of papermaking (washi). Be taught, in English, how conventional Japanese paper is made, and take a look at your hand at making sheets of your individual that you would be able to take house on the finish of the Oguni Washi Intensive.
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I simply caught wind of this exhibition, which is open for a pair extra weeks on the Sandy Spring Museum in Maryland. A Paean to Paper options many paper artists who’re new to me, and there’s a beautiful on-line catalog.
© Maria Barbosa
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This video reveals how a city in India is holding their papermaking custom alive.
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Paper Tidbits
On a tragic be aware: a few of you’ll know Susan Kristoferson (I interviewed her on Paper Speak in 2021). She handed away final week. I used to be in contact together with her in late Might, when she despatched me this beautiful picture of a paper weaving she created together with her personal paste papers in my Weave By way of Winter on-line class a few years in the past. I’ve so many fond reminiscences of Susan, whom I met first at Mates of Dard Hunter conferences; linked with in Oregon, after I moved there in 1998 (she was beneficiant and supportive to a newcomer); and stayed in contact with by the years after she moved to Canada. Susan had such a ardour for floor design methods, particularly itajime and paste papers. Relaxation in peace, expensive Susan.
Right here is the knowledge I’ve from a paper colleague who’s in contact together with her household: It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we announce the passing of Susan Kristoferson, who bravely battled fallopian tube ovarian most cancers since October. Regardless of her decided spirit and the superb care she obtained, Susan handed away on Saturday July sixth. We are going to all the time cherish her energy, heat, and the profound impression she had on all of our lives. Particulars are nonetheless being finalized, however a celebration of life is deliberate for Saturday, August third, on the beloved house she cherished within the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
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