The Sunday Paper #510
Might 26, 2024
We had a beautiful week within the studio throughout the first Papermaking Grasp Class of 2024. Contributors traveled from the Adirondacks, Ohio and Los Angeles, and Shawna Moulton got here to help from Florida. The category relies on my ebook, The Papermaker’s Companion – we explored gear and studio set-up; processing and pigmenting pulp; Western and Japanese sheet forming; and a wide range of methods, inlcuding: stenciling, pulp portray, watermarking, inside and exterior armatures. We additionally spent a day at Susan Mackin Dolan’s studio, the place we discovered about her distinctive strategies for creating skilled papers and not using a beater, press or drying system.
I’m holding two classes this 12 months and might be asserting 2025 session dates in October 2024. Learn extra and apply right here.
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Priscilla Robinson’s exhibition, Wondrous World, at Wally Workman Gallery in Austin closes in the present day, however you possibly can nonetheless take a digital tour and listen to her discuss in regards to the work right here. I interviewed Robinson on Paper Speak just a few years in the past.
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Bark Rhythms: Up to date Innovation and Ancestral Traditions, curated by Jill Powers and Lisa Miles, is presently on view on the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta. This exhibit options artists from around the globe who’re training and innovating within the historic traditions of constructing bark paper and barkcloth. There are a number of upcoming applications, together with digital lectures, the exhibition opening and a hands-on workshop. Click on by to seek out out extra and join.
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Congratulations to Janna Willoughby-Lohr for successful first place in a nationwide pitch competitors. Willoughby-Lohr is a hard-working inventive paper entrepreneur who runs Buffalo-based Papercraft Miracles. Watch her discuss in regards to the win, and take heed to my interview together with her on Paper Speak.
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Paper Tidbits
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