The Sunday Paper #546
March 9, 2025
I spent Friday in Colorado Springs the place I visited Jillian Sico, who runs The Press at Colorado School. Amongst different issues, she took me and my buddy to see a poster present that she curated, that includes posters and prints displaying a variety of responses to the state of our nation, together with each private and political factors of view. I like this one by Ladyfingers Letterpress (based mostly in Colorado Springs).
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The spotlight of the day was visiting the exhibition (and assembly the artist) Alisa Banks, Unerased on the Nice Arts Middle at Colorado School, additionally curated by Jillian Sico. The multi-dimensional works in Unerased problem the systemic erasure of Black American historical past and honor Banks’s private and ancestral roots. The present is up by way of September 6, 2025 and is nicely value a go to (she incorporates handmade paper into lots of her works).
Alisa Banks, Half (element), 2014. Courtesy the artist.
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College at Buffalo college member Crystal Z Campbell’s first solo museum exhibit, “Currents 124,” is at the moment on show by way of March 9 (at this time) on the Saint Louis Artwork Museum. The multidisciplinary exhibit explores Campbell’s current works utilizing “underloved” and neglected historic narratives, significantly these tied to U.S. colonialism within the Philippines, which is influenced by her Black, Chinese language and Filipinx heritage. Campbell created a sequence of paper items at Dieu Donne in NYC.
A view of Crystal Z Campbell’s set up on the Saint Louis Artwork Museum. This picture options the handmade paper works Campbell created in collaboration with Tatiana Ginsberg at Dieu Donné Papermaking Studio. 2024. Photograph: Saint Louis Artwork Museum.
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E book artists and papermakers, Radha Pandey and Johan Solberg, might be main a E book Arts and Tradition Tour in India in February 2026. This intimate look into India is for many who want to see behind the scenes of varied working artists and craftspeople. With visits to artwork and craft facilities, museums, studio visits and workshops, contributors could have an opportunity to watch conventional wooden block carving and printing on material, expertise pure dyeing, go to a miniature painter’s studio, have interaction in conventional papermaking strategies, and attend tailored workshops on conventional paper slicing and palm leaf binding with grasp craftsmen. The tentative dates for this journey, which can happen in Delhi and Jaipur, are February sixteenth to March 2nd, 2026. The spots on this tour are restricted to six with the intention to maintain the group small and have one-on-one engagement with workshop instructors. Registration is open and you may safe your spot by paying a deposit of $500.
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Try this Udon paper! These noodles lose their chewiness and taste after they’re ready, and enormous portions of noodles are discarded on the finish of every day. Kagawa College professor Naotaka Tanaka has found out produce sheets of “paper” produced from Sanuki udon.
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About our Sponsor (the tour guides of the E book Arts and Tradition Tour in India): Radha Pandey is a e-book artist, papermaker and letterpress printer. She earned her MFA in E book Arts from the College of Iowa Middle for the E book. She focuses on Indo-Islamicate Papermaking and teaches e-book arts lessons in India, Europe and the US. Johan Solberg is a bookbinder, letterpress printer, papermaker and a MFA graduate in E book Arts from the College of Iowa Middle for the E book. His work explores the intersection of inventive analysis and craft, combining each historic and modern strategies and supplies.
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