The Sunday Paper #516

July 28, 2024

I host three week-long events in my studio each year. This past week, five of us gathered for the second of two Papermaking Master Classes (view images on Instagram). I will announce dates for next year in the fall. Click here to learn more and express interest.

My next and final in studio event is the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, which will take place August 26-30. One spot has just opened up. We’ll be exploring paper and thread this year: curved stitching, embedding strings, and structural string forms. Cool off and craft with a like-minded group of paper enthusiasts in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

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Check out these cut and folded paper artifacts that were discovered on a lintel, where they are assumed to have settled after falling between floorboards about 350 years ago. These treasures are on display at Sutton House, Hackney, London until December (click through to see a unique triaxial pattern in the floor at the old school).

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With the recent closure of University of the Arts and dissolution of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) degree seeking programs, it’s a summer of uncertainty for many Philadelphia artists. A recent group show at AUTOMAT featured the work of five artists who have deep connections to the art community in Philadelphia. The work by Morgan Hobbs caught my eye. Appearing heavy, each piece is mostly hollow under the exterior coating of the newspaper pulp, and viewers were invited to rearrange and rebuild new structures.

Installation view of Pathways, featuring the work of Morgan Hobbs (center) and Kate Moran (right). Courtesy of Addison Namnoum.

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A Letter in Mind is The National Brain Appeal’s annual art fundraiser. Anyone can submit an envelope artwork that will be sold to help fund advances that the neurological community so desperately needs. The submissions deadline for 2024 has just ended, but you can still learn about and support this wonderful project.

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About our Sponsor:  The International Center for the Arts is an interdisciplinary arts and humanities center in central Italy, in the medieval castle-town of Monte Castello di Vibio. From its mountain perch, it overlooks the famed, Tiber River on its way to Rome and the lush Tiber Valley. It is an all-inclusive facility that provides 24/7 bi-lingual site support, airport welcome and departure services, airport transfer, three, chef-catered meals per day, single occupancy accommodations, and excursions once a week, in addition to fully equipped workplace for visual artists in paper making, book-binding, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture , clay arts, and photography, and crafts people of all disciplines, in addition to writers, filmmakers and composers, as well as scholars.

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