Papermaker Kathleen Rowley recently moved to Riverside,
California, after living for eleven years in Hawai'i. Her specialty is Japanese
paper, which she incorporates into mixed media drawings and large-scale
sculptures. Kathleen is founder and past president of the Jun Ken Po Paper Arts
Council, a group of paper/print/book artists on the Big Island of Hawai'i.Manoa Press is the home of book artist and
linguist Jim Rumford. In an unbelievably tiny room off the garage of his Manoa
valley house in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Rumford produces finely made unique books,
many about papermaking topics, translated from old Chinese texts never before
published in English. Others relate to Hawaiian language and history, and the
key figures who influenced the islands' traditions. Whatever the subject,
Rumford handles the ideas as deftly as he handles type, paper, and binding
thread. Each book is an integrated treasure, with no part unconsidered.

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