Out of the Studio:

We made a quick visit to Hook Pottery Paper in LaPorte, IN where artists Laurie LeBreton and Lea Basile-Lazarus were finishing up their day of creating amazing works in the studio.

Papery Tidbits

• Did you catch this manipulated paper book round up on the blog last week?
• I’m looking for images of projects that you’ve created from the 2017 or 2018 Twelve Months of Paper Calendar to use to promote the 2019 calendar (and maybe even publish in the new calendar). If you have photos, please send them to me at helen@helenhiebertstudio.com. Thank you!
• If you were thinking of signing for the Paper Illuminated online class, please do it today! It’s the deadline for ordering a supply kit and earlybird pricing ends too.

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Matthias Schwethelm is a papermaker in Nuremberg, Germany (the first city in Germany where paper was made in 1390). He is competing to win an art project that will be funded with 5000 EUR, and his idea is to make a GIANT handmade sheet of paper on the streets, with the people, and to use the paper for contemporary art. Follow this link (and the instructions below the photo) and vote to make this happen!

Maya Freelon discovered water damaged tissue paper in her grandmother’s basement, which led to striking abstract sculptures and installations, including this one at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building.

Elsa Mora has been working with paper in creative ways for years. You’ll soon see why her recent work is called Mindscapes.

Debra Rapoport makes exquisite paper hats by carefully folding paper towels, turning them into strips of sturdy building materials, or “elements” for the hats. They’re folded and glued, spray painted and dabbed with bright acrylic paint.

This would have been cool to bust through the first time: a paper doorway. Entering the Fergus McCaffrey gallery requires an act of Gutai participation: You step through a jagged hole in gold paper stretched across the doorway. This is a remake of Saburo Murakami’s famous “Entrance” (“Iriguchi”) of 1955 — a collision of mind, body and art.

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