Rosa Chang, an artist, art administrator, writer, and gardener, champions harmony between humanity and nature. Her art, inspired by natural elements, spans diverse mediums. Currently, she's passionate about sharing Korean/Asian traditional Indigo and Natural Dye processes, as well as traditional fiber art processes, to foster cultural exchanges among diverse communities. Her debut picture book, My Indigo World, published in May 2023, earned nominations from prestigious awards, including the 2023 New York Public Library Best Book, the 2024 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book, the Best Children's Book of the Year 2024 Edition by Bank Street College of Education, and the 2024 Maryland's "Great Reads from Great Places" Library of Congress Children's Book Selection for the National Book Festival.

Mina Takahashi is the editor of Hand Papermaking. Formerly executive director of programs at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York, she directed artist residencies and publishing projects, curated exhibitions, and collaborated with artists in the studio. Trained originally in Japanese papermaking, she teaches and consults on the artistic and craft applications of hand papermaking across the country and internationally. She lives in upstate New York where she collaborates with artists in her papermaking studio, Round Top Paper.

Karen Kopacz is the designer of Hand Papermaking. She graduated from Columbia College with a BA in fine arts, minoring in fiction writing. For nearly 2 decades, Karen has worked and collaborated in the Twin Cities arts community as a designer, brand strategist, Web developer, and artist. In 2000, she founded Design for the Arts, partnering with organizations, businesses, and artists to develop and launch brands and creative initiatives. As director of online arts & literature magazine Mental Contagion (2000-2008), she was invited to be a panelist at the SXSW Interactive Festival for Fostering New Culture on the Internet.

Sophia Hotzler (she/her) is a papermaker, photographer, and crafter living in Minneapolis. She was first introduced to the skill of papermaking while attending the University of Manitoba, where she graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honors. She teaches paper classes at the Avon Hills Folk School and co-hosts a handmade paper exchange program based in Minneapolis. When she’s not in the vat pulling sheets, she can be found printing digital photographs and making journals with her handmade paper.

Steph Rue is an artist and papermaker based in Sacramento, CA. She received her MFA at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, and studied traditional book and papermaking on a Fulbright to Korea in 2015. Steph is co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of limited edition works made with Korean paper.

Lynn Sures is a recent Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 2018-2020 President of North American Hand Papermakers, Founding Director of the Collegiate Paper Triennial, and guest editor of the 2016 Winter issue of Hand Papermaking magazine. Recent artist residencies were at Olorgesailie, Kenya; Museo della Carta (MCF) in Fabriano, Italy; and Museu Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain. Her art is in collections of the US Library of Congress, Yale University, and NY Public Library’s Schomburg Collection. http://www.lynnsures.com Instagram @lynnsures

Kazuko Hioki is the Preservation Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. She earned an M.I.L.S with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin, and was trained and employed as a conservator at various institutions, including the University of Kentucky Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. Before her career in conservation, she was a chemist at the Sumitomo Chemical Company in Osaka, having completed a Bachelor of Agriculture degree focused on Pesticide Chemistry from Kobe University. She has lectured and published widely on various topics related to conservation and preservation, ranging from sustainable environmental control and disaster preparedness to the physical characteristics of printed books and recycled papermaking in 18th -20th century Japan. More information about her research can be found here: http://works.bepress.com.

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Emily Duong is a paper artist, printmaker, and graphic designer currently based in New Jersey. Her works are known for their abstract subjects, which evoke a sense of infinite space and possibilities. She formerly served on the Committee at the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) as the Bulletin Editor.

Gretchen Schermerhorn is a printmaker & papermaker, and is the executive director of Southern Graphics Council International, the largest membership organization dedicated to the art of printmaking. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University and since then, she has completed artist residencies at The Women's Studio Workshop in New York, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Seacourt Print Workshop in Northern Ireland, California State University and the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Florida and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Her prints, installations, and works on paper works have been exhibited around the country and internationally, and her work is part of the Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Anne Arundel Community College's print collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. She has received individual artist awards from both the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. She has taught Printmaking and Papermaking workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Snow Farm-New England Craft, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, and Women's Studio Workshop, and at Universities such as Maryland Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins.

Sanaz Haghani is an Iranian visual artist holding MFA with distinction in Art from the University of Georgia and BFA in Graphic Design from Sooreh University in Shiraz, Iran. She is adjunct professor at the Rowan Cabarrus Community College. Before joining RCCC, she worked as adjunct professor at the department of Printmaking and book arts, University of Georgia, and instructor of record in foundation drawing at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Haghani also worked as a graphic designer for eight years in Iran where she taught graphic design and drawing courses. She has presented her work across the United States, i.e. the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Missoula Art Museum, and she has exhibited internationally in multiple solo, group, and competitive exhibitions.  She has been one of the women artists in “Paper Routes – Women to Watch 2020” who was featured in “Voyage Atl,” “The Atlantan,” “Shutout Atlanta,” “The Hand Magazine,” “College Book Art Association,” “Mid-American Print Council Journal,” and “Burnaway” magazines.

Anne Q McKeown is a visual artist who uses painted, drawn and collaged images to tell herstory. For seventeen years McKeown held the position of Master Papermaker at Brodsky Center, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where shecollaborated with nationally and internationally recognized artists to make multiples of theirwork using paper as a medium. In her own work she uses handmade paper both as substrate,and sculptural forms. Her different works are shown in galleries and on the internet. McKeown has worked with artists in collaboration and conducted workshops in Ireland, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. The Be-Cause Look Book, a book of graphicimages of political and existential statements, was co-created and published in the 1970s. Hervisual work can also be found in several other published books. She is an author and Instructorof courses for Rutgers Arts Online. She has taught at Purchase College, University of Connecticut, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

Jerushia Graham is the Museum Manager for the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking and a working artist. She is an Atlanta-based printmaker, papermaker, book artist, and fiber artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally. Graham is a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, the Movable Book Society, and the North American Hand Papermakers. She served as the first VP of Exhibitions/Curatorial for the North American Hand Papermakers (2020-2021)  She has also been a guest curator for the Zora Neale Hurston Museum in Eatonville, FL and The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning in Duluth, GA. Graham was previously the Education Director for Atlanta Printmakers Studio, a foundations professor for the University of West Georgia and the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur and a book arts/papermaking/print professor for Kennesaw State University. She has taught classes for Arrowmont Arts and Craft School and Paper Book Intensive at Oxbow. She is scheduled to teach Papercutting Summer of 2025 at Penland School of Craft. Prior to her work in Georgia she served as the Museum Director and Education Coordinator for Spiral Q, an arts and social justice non-profit in Philadelphia. During the 2024 Inaugural Atlanta Arts Fair, Graham was one of four artists featured in the Spalding Nix Fine Art booth. Graham exhibited as one of five artists selected by the GA Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibit at MOCA GA, Paper Routes: Women To Watch 2020. Several of her works have traveled the state of Georgia in Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Cut and Paste, an exhibition sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and Lyndon House Museum. Solo exhibitions include: Placemaking: Evidence of Care at the Zora Neale Hurston Museum (2025), Speak to My Heart: Papercuts by Jerushia Graham at the Cochran Gallery in LaGrange, GA (2023), In This Place at the Hudgens Center in Duluth, GA (2022) and Freedom Isn't Free at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (2021).  Graham is an alumnus of The Creatives Project artist residency, the 40th St. AIR program, Experimental Printmaking Institute internship, African American Museum of Philadelphia internship, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum apprenticeship program. She earned an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and BFA degrees in Fabric Design and Printmaking from the University of Georgia in Athens. She was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina and grew up on military bases in Kansas, Germany, North Carolina, and Georgia. She is scheduled to be in residence at the Maitland Art and History Museums in Maitland, FL (2025) and  recently completed a residency at Halden Bookworks in Tistedal, Norway (2024). Graham is interested in creating spaces for empathy and socially-minded introspection through her artwork, workshops, and curatorial projects.

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Amanda Degener is co-founder of Hand Papermaking magazine and produces sculpture and artist books using handmade paper. She received an MFA in sculpture at Yale School of Art and a BA at Bennington College. Amanda travels internationally to show her artwork and conduct lectures and workshops. You can learn more about her work at http://amandadegener.com/.

Michael Durgin co-founded Hand Papermaking with Amanda Degener in 1986 and served as its editor for 18 years. He was first exposed to making paper by hand in 1980 and has studied and been deeply engaged in papermaking and book arts ever since. For the last few years, he has sold books for charities in Beijing, Silver Spring (Maryland), and Frankfurt (Germany), where he now lives. He was the guest editor of a special issue of Hand Papermaking (Winter 2014) devoted to China.