Archives for February 2016

Exhibit Video Shows Paper in Motion

Number 9 in Hand Papermaking’s portfolio series offers an extraordinary assortment of collaborative artwork–-14 pieces by 28 artists–-featuring pop-ups, movable devices, and other forms of dynamic paper engineering. The motion and imagery is enhanced physically and conceptually by the use of handmade paper designed and made specifically for each piece in the edition. Read more here.

Selections from the portfolio are demonstrated in this video, which accompanies an exhibition of the work. Our appreciation to Neira Selimovic, a student at Georgia Tech, and Virginia Howell, education curator at Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.

Artists in the portfolio are Richard Aldorasi & Colette Fu, Tom Balbo & Michael Durgin, Michelle Bayer & Kyle Olmon, Rachelle Chuang & Joan Michaels Paque, Helen Hiebert & Betsy Cluff, Amy Jacobs & Philip Bell, Jeanne Jaffe & Alisa Fox & Hedi Kyle, Tom Leech & Sally Blakemore, Bridget O’Malley & Emily Martin, Margaret Prentice & Ed Hutchins, Winnie Radolan & Pamela Wood, Erin Robin & Mary Tasillo, Shawn Sheehy, Lynn Sures & Carol Barton.

FLORIDA: USA: Islamic World Papermaking Workshop

Islamic World Papermaking, with Radha Pandey at Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Book Arts Center, Boca Raton, Florida, Thursday & Friday March 17 & 18, 2016

Experience Islamic papermaking and learn the techniques first hand by making paper and participating in the dyeing of dried sheets, surface sizing, and burnishing.

Radha Pandey is papermaker and letterpress printer from New Delhi, India. She earned an MFA in Book Arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2014. During her time at the Center, she studied fine press printing, bookbinding and calligraphy, with a special focus on traditional Western, Japanese and Islamic world papermaking techniques taught by Tim Barrett. As part of her studies, she traveled to investigate Islamic papermaking techniques in India between 2012 and 2014, and has since undertaken her own research on the essential tools of Islamic-style papermaking, including moulds and chapri (‑flexible mould surface) weaving.

For registration details, visit www.library.fau.edu.

Austria: Classes at PaperWasp

PapierWespe (PaperWasp) offers workshops in English and German taught by paper specialists in downtown Vienna. Upcoming classes include…
Bamboo, Light, Paper, April 23-24, with Anna Rubin. Create bamboo armatures to support airy paper sculptures.
Papers from Native Plants, October 15-16, with Beatrix Mapalagama. Create papers from beer hops, straw, long flax fibers, and more.
PapierWespe is located at Klimschgasse 2/1, Vienna, Austria. Call (0676) 77-33-153 or email office@papierwespe.at or visit www.papierwespe.at.

CCCCBPA Exhibit Catalog

The catalog for the exhibition “Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art” is still available. It includes essays by papermaking expert Gail Deery; socially engaged artist Jillian Bruschera; social practice curator and theorist Stuart Keeler; craft historian and theorist Jenni Sorkin; and exhibition curators Jessica Cochran and Melissa Potter. The book features full color reproductions and texts by artists Kiff Slemmons, Laura Anderson Barbata, The People’s Library, Combat Paper, John Risseeuw, Julia Goodman, and many others. For more information contact mpotter@colum.edu or purchase the catalog here.

Texas, USA: Residencies at SSAC

Artists experienced in papermaking are invited to apply for the opportunity to spend up to three months working in the Paper Studio at the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Artists are expected to provide their own transportation and materials. Housing may be available, but is not guaranteed. Collaborations will be considered. For further information contact SSAC, 300 Augusta, San Antonio, TX 78205, (210) 224-1848, www.swschool.org.

FLORIDA, USA: Gallery Talk with Jillian Bruschera of The Mobile Mill

Saturday February 20, 2016
5 PM, Book Arts Gallery, Jaffe Center for Book Arts
at Florida Atlantic University’s Wimberly Library, Suite 350

Jillian Bruschera of The Mobile Mill will discuss her traveling papermaking studio project. The Mobile Mill is a traveling paper studio built to enable “pop-up” hand papermaking production. As a transportable space able to interact between edges, this studio-on-wheels considers art-making––in this case the making of handmade recycled paper––a way to engage in a variety of communities and dialogues. Moving the making experience to any person in any place, The Mobile Mill actively challenges traditional notions of art practice, craft culture and education by broadening preconceived notions of where art can be made and who can make it. With an emphasis on social-based process this art-work blurs the line between art and experience, making the radical effort to push beyond studio walls. In this way, The Mobile Mill is not just about making things, but also it is about making things happen. For details, visit www.library.fau.edu.

Oregon, USA: 200-year-old woodblock for sale

Korean printing woodblock for sale. Over 200 years old. Hand carved on both sides, from the Yi Dynasty. Made of pine wood. Printing surface is 8×18 inches; the entire piece is nearly 12×21 inches. Excellent condition and prints well. Price: $2000. For more information email ww.washi@yahoo.com or call Marilyn Wold at 503-641-7162.