I’ve always loved photos like this, depicting sheets of paper drying outside on screens. I’ve written lokta factories before, which were abundant and thriving over a decade ago in Nepal. But they slowly withered and ultimately pulled down their shutters due to lack of human resources, shortage of raw materials, high production cost and effects of Maoist conflict. These factories are now back in business and are creating jobs for locals.
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Papery Tidbits:

• If I were in the Bay Area this week, I’d go see Lisa Kokin’s new shredded money pieces at Seager/Gray Gallery.
• Paper/Print, curated by Susan Gosin & Mina Takashashi opens on April 5th at the International Print Center New York.

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Check out these amazing paper sculptures! Leo Garcia Mendez and Raya Sader Bujana are two Venezuelan artists – one creates tiny realistic constructions in paper and the other takes beautiful photographs.

This is a great idea and great community organization name: Paperworkers Local is an Alabama group that banded together to form a workspace for artists working on paper.

Into the Fold: The Art & Science of Origami, is now on view at the Science Museum Oklahoma. “All these folds, they have mathematical computations… a lot of these mathematicians and artists have come up with ways, these folding patterns, to really create any object that you can think of, just by folding a single piece of paper. That takes a lot of math.”

Did you know that there is a Guild of Papermakers? It is based in Philadelphia, and here is a little history. The first meeting was held at the papermaking barn of Historic RittenhouseTown, also in Philadelphia, in the fall of 1991. Over the years, the group of 50 – 60 artists has continued to meet almost bi-monthly, held studio and gallery visits, sponsored workshops with several nationally known paper artists, and has held an annual all member Paper Awareness exhibitions.

This is a lovely gesture by a student at Seton Hall University. Daniel Kim has launched an origami challenge to students and staff to recycle their old essays, syllabi, and other scraps of paper and turn them into one thousand cranes symbolizing a communal wish for a greener campus and planet. The Ecology Club is erecting a bamboo structure, and origami makers are invited to hang their creations there. Hopefully they’ll publish a photo!
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