Glimpse
The Sunday Paper #558
June 8, 2025
I created this mini banner to remind myself that I am responsible for creating JoY in my life. And guess what? I enJoYed designing it! Come make one with me – save the date – June 28th from 12-1pm MT. I’ll be hosting a free workshop on Zoom to kick off registration for The Paper Year. Details next week!
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I had the pleasure of speaking with Marianne Guély on Paper Talk. Studio Marianne Guély is a Paris atelier working at the crossroads of art, design, and craftsmanship. Specializing in the poetic staging of paper, the studio conjures up immersive worlds where imagination is reignited and stories come to life. Paper, a living material, enters into dialogue with space and imagination alike. Operating within the realm of luxury, Studio Marianne Guély conceives and shapes poetic universes, from the infinitely small to the grandiose, where beauty reveals itself in the precision of detail and the finesse of gesture. Enjoy our conversation!
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I hope that someone reading this got to this exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom, featured the work of Brooklyn-based Fabiola Jean-Louis, who is known as the “newspaper lady” by her neighbors. To her, paper is sacred. With it, she interrogates Haitian liberation, Vodou, and opens portals to new worlds.
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I created this short video to show what we created in the Paper Lantern class I co-taught with Tim Barrett recently at the Paper & Book Intensive in Oxbow, Michigan.
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This is a lovely film by Glimpse. Artist Matt Shlian invites us into his Ann Arbor studio – a place where geometry dances, experimentation leads the way, and process is everything. With hands guided by intuition and precision, Matt transforms flat sheets of paper into dimensional poetry. As we follow his meticulous rhythm, we glimpse not just the art, but the mind behind it.
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Paper Tidbits
- The Guild of American Papercutters welcomes submissions to “Mountains and Valleys,” juried by Marie-Helene Grabman with awards up to $1500, inviting cut paper artworks that celebrate the Appalachian region and other elevations and depressions. Deadline: June 14.
- If you’re in the Atlanta area, don’t miss this! Internationally renowned paper artist Radha Pandey is teaching a natural dye workshop at the The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking on Saturday, June 14th.
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