The Sunday Paper #529
October 27, 2024
This might be previous information to a few of you, however I needed to ensure weblog readers are within the loop (I additionally ship a month-to-month e-newsletter, which went out final Thursday). In my keynote handle on the North American Hand Papermaking convention final week, I talked about taking dangers. I’ve come to appreciate that just about each time I take a threat, I uncover alternatives I might by no means have imagined.
I contacted the Mabel Dodge Luhan Home earlier this week – I used to be reminded of this retreat heart in Taos, New Mexico on the papermaking convention – to see if they may have any openings in 2026. They wrote proper again, saying they’ve a gap for July 2025. At first, I believed that was manner too quickly for me to prepare, however then I made a decision I ought to take into account it, as a result of one other alternative like this won’t come up for awhile.
I requested for assist in turning the chance into actuality (I’ve to pay a deposit to safe the positioning in 2 weeks) and was delighted by the preliminary response (due to those that expressed curiosity). Please fill out this quick survey (by November 1st) in case you are within the retreat.
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Journey to Italy with Guide Arts in Venice June 16-27, 2025 to go to conventional e-book arts and letterpress studios. Work on the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, one of many largest typography museums in Europe, positioned within the foothills of the Dolomite Mountains. Go to historic websites together with St. Mark’s Sq., the Accademia Galleries, and the Peggy Guggenheim Assortment. Discover the sweetness, artwork, and tradition of the area in a small group with a seasoned, Italian-speaking journey information, KBAC Government Director, Jeff Abshear. 100% of earlier Guide Arts in Venice contributors mentioned they’d suggest this journey. Maybe that is your 12 months to affix us in Italy! That is what previous contributors are saying:
- “Venice lives in my creativeness each single day and I’m so grateful that I ever took this journey.”
- “The entire expertise of ‘day by day residing’ in Venice was completely nice.”
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Nancy Jacobi on Paper Speak. She is the founding father of The Japanese Paper Place in Toronto, a enterprise which she started 40 + years in the past after her discovery of paper’s potential whereas instructing English in Japan. By supplying washi worldwide, providing workshops, lectures and exhibitions, the corporate continues its mission to encourage creativity by highlighting the potential of this too little-understood, highly effective however endangered useful resource.
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I’m sorry that I discovered about this set up (and fundraiser) by Mona Huneidi after it ended (simply final week). It’s such a strong piece – I believe it is going to be exhibited once more. I encourage you to click on by and browse the artist’s assertion.
Mona Huneidi, Focused: 100+ Kites, 2024, the artist in entrance of the set up at Efficiency Works Northwest, Portland, Oregon (Picture credit score: Tim Sugden)
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Kelli Anderson’s Alphabet in Movement: How Letters Get Their Form pop-up e-book launched this week on Kickstarter. Click on by to observe the aMaZiNg prototype in motion, after which be part of me in backing her challenge!
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Paper Tidbits
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About Our Sponsor: The Kalamazoo Guide Arts Heart (KBAC) is a nonprofit group in Kalamazoo, MI, that practices, teaches, and promotes the collaborative arts of the e-book together with hand papermaking, printmaking, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artistic writing.
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