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Attention Papermaking Students!

Subscribe to Hand Papermaking magazine by September 30, and receive One Free Issue!

Hand Papermaking supports emerging artists, crafters, designers, and all young paper enthusiasts! For a limited time only, we are extending all student subscriptions to three issues (one-and-a-half year’s worth) for the price of two — a 33% savings on the cost of a regular subscription.

Just visit our subscription page, and enter the code BACKTOSCHOOL as you sign up.

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Included in our most recent, exciting, beautiful, all-color! (Summer 2018) issue of Hand Papermaking:

Three (!) stunning samples of handmade paper that reveal the artists’ intimate relationship with water
A profile of the artist Joan Hall, whose work “The New Normal: In with the Tide” (2018) graces this issue’s cover and is shown in part in the banner image above
Articles and reviews examining the work of a some amazing paper artists who explore water as a subject, medium, and conceptual underpinning
“Paper is the Thing,” a new poem by Richard Tuttle

And much, much more!

SUBSCRIBE TODAY!

Hand Papermaking’s 20th Annual Auction Is Almost Here!

For 32 years, Hand Papermaking has been your source for information on the art of handmade paper. This May 11-20, help Hand Papermaking continue its mission and take advantage of fantastic paper-related items during our Annual Auction, where 100% of proceeds benefit Hand Papermaking.

Choose from over 90 bargains and one-of-a-kind lots such as supplies, tools, books on paper and book arts, fine handmade papers, art works, paper experiences, and much more!

Get advance peeks at some of the most intriguing auction items starting May 1st on Hand Papermaking’s Instagram page: www.instagram.com/handpapermaking.

Highlights include:

Gift certificates from paper/book arts organizations such as BookArtsLA, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, San Francisco Center for Book Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Pyramid Atlantic, etc.
Studio experiences donated by artists/organizations from around the country
Two paper moulds from Simon Green, and a Chinese papermaking mould from Carriage House paper
Papers from Japan Korea, and paper studios around the U.S.
Numerous prints, broadsides, and paper-based works of art
Fine and historic books and broadsides

Visit Hand Papermaking’s eBay seller’s page starting on May 11: http://bit.ly/handpapermaking

For more information, contact Michael Fallon at info@handpapermaking.org.

It’s Easy to DONATE to Hand Papermaking

Hand Papermaking relies on DONATIONS from supporters like you to continue its work to advance traditional and contemporary ideas in the art of making paper by hand.

And so we make it easy for you to contribute a tax-deductible donation to Hand Papermaking in one of several ways:

–You can DONATE money to us through Paypal at one of several donor levels.

–You can DONATE goods or services to our ANNUAL AUCTION, coming up on September 15-24, 2017.

–You can DONATE to our PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE FUND, which help us make our paper portfolios to accessible to a wider audience.

–You can DONATE to use through AMAZON SMILE, providing valuable funds to Hand Papermaking while you shop online.

–And, of course, you can PURCHASE a number of HAND PAPERMAKING PRODUCTS: Back issues, subscriptions, newsletter ads, limited-edition portfolios, and so on.

Thank you for your support of Hand Papermaking.

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It’s easy to support Hand Papermaking every time you make a purchase online with Amazon Smile.

Simply follow these four easy steps:

Visit smile.amazon.com.
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Select “Hand Papermaking Inc.“
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And that’s it. Be sure to go to smile.amazon.com every time you shop Amazon. As of May 2017, Amazon shoppers have raised more than $54 million for their favorite charities. We thank you for contributing to Hand Papermaking and helping us advance traditional and contemporary ideas in the art of making paper by hand.

So many reasons to support Hand Papermaking on #GivingTuesday

Giving Tuesday is here and we invite you to join in the spirit with your tax-deductible gift to Hand Papermaking. This year, there are so many reasons to give…and receive! Act now and your donation will be matched (up to the first $3000) by an anonymous donor. This means that your generosity will have double the impact and we’ll doubly appreciate your support!

1. Celebrate 30 years of our award-winning publications, and launch us into the next 30 with your year-end gift. Contributors of $125 or more will receive this year’s limited-edition broadside. Details HERE. Donate HERE.

2. Applaud our soon-to-retire executive director Tom Bannister, with a special “In Honor of Tom” gift to let him know how much his hard work has been appreciated! Details HERE. Donate HERE.

3. Give a gift subscription to a deserving papermaker and YOU will receive Helen Hiebert’s Twelve Months of Paper, a beautiful combination how-to book and 2017 calendar. (HINT: You can give the subscription to yourself and still get the calendar!) Details HERE. Order HERE.

Order and donate online or call us today (800-821-6604) and know that your support is appreciated all year long!

Contribute to Our 2018 Year-End Fundraising Campaign & Get the Year-End Broadside

At Hand Papermaking, we celebrate the creative heroes — the papermakers and paper artists, scholars, and makers — whose heroic expressive efforts keep Hand Papermaking and our collective creative culture going strong through thick and thin. Please consider donating today to our annual Year-End Fundraising Campaign, when we ask for your help to keep us strong as we fight the good fight for the culture we all love.

To show our appreciation of your generosity, we are pleased to once again offer a Limited-Edition, Year-End Broadside to anyone who donates $125 or more. This year’s heady and elegant one-of-a-kind broadside was printed by Celene Aubry of Hatch Show Print in Nashville on custom-made handmade paper by Nicole Donnelly of paperTHINKtank in Philadelphia. It features a poem by Eléna Rivera from her recent poetry volume Scaffolding, published by Princeton University Press. Alta Price provided art direction on the project for Hand Papermaking, Inc.

Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution of $125 or more to receive this broadside, and help Hand Papermaking continue to remain vibrant for many years to come. Thank you!