The Sunday Paper #541
February 4, 2025
Persevering with on the paper valentine theme from final week, there are numerous fascinating historic paper variations, and the coronary heart in hand is certainly one of them. It is a favourite rendition – has anybody seen this piece on the American People Artwork Museum in NYC? I created just a few variations utilizing the directions and templates discovered over at Byopia Press. I’ve to confess that reducing these out is straightforward sufficient, however meeting is difficult!
I acquired to excited about the state of our world and for some purpose the put a fowl on it slogan from Portlandia popped into my head. I assumed it is likely to be enjoyable to put a coronary heart on It. Be a part of the enjoyable, and ship me your model in the event you strive it.
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A reader not too long ago shared a evaluate of the Picasso and Paper exhibition on the Cleveland Museum of Artwork. I searched my weblog archive and located a put up from January of 2020, by which I introduced the present on the similar museum, which appeared odd (would a museum host the identical present twice)? The date of the earlier exhibition gave me a clue, and a fast search revealed that the exhibition was delayed because of COVID. That is the one North American exhibiting, and it provides a groundbreaking new have a look at Pablo Picasso’s lifelong experimentation with paper. Via March 23, 2025.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Fortunate Chang on Paper Speak, an artist, artwork educator, and yoga trainer based mostly in Palo Alto, CA whose work combines papermaking, printmaking, and portray. Born in Atlanta, GA, she holds a BS from Skidmore Faculty and an MFA from the College of Georgia. Chang’s apply is an exploration of inside peace, wholeness, and pleasure. Her summary works on her personal handmade paper vary from small and intimate to large-scale and immersive. Her work has been exhibited in New York, California, Georgia, Florence, Cortona, and Crete, at establishments corresponding to The Georgia Museum of Artwork, Whitespace Gallery, Rainforest Artwork Basis, Madison Museum of Fantastic Artwork, and Tappan Gallery. Chang has participated in artist residencies worldwide, together with Anderson Ranch and Penland College of Craft. She is represented by Tappan Collective in Los Angeles, CA.
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Since I’ve already made a fowl reference, how about one other? Nayan Shrimal and Venus Fowl from The Paper Ark have launched The Parrot Challenge, creating lifelike paper portraits for a superb trigger. Every fowl is made up of tiny paper bits, put collectively following a sketch beforehand made by the crew. The pair additionally delicately paints every bit to actually seize the small print that make the species so distinctive, such because the yellow spots on the pinnacle of the red-tailed black cockatoo or the ombre feathers of the Scarlet Macaw.
Purple-tailed black cockatoo, by Paper Ark, as seen on My Fashionable Met.
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Extra birds! It is a heartwarming video a few man who created a paper mama to nurse a younger fowl and get it again into the wild.
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Paper Tidbits
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