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It’s March! Have you created the project in the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar? Here’s a picture of the project (made by Elissa Campbell) sitting on the calendar. It is an Origami Refrigerator Magnet created from 9 circles (see why that giveaway kit would be helpful)? Need a copy of the calendar? They’re now half price, or purchase 10 copies for $75 (that’s the cost of 3 copies at the regular price). Share the paper love with your friends and family!

Janna Willoughby runs Papercraft Miracles in Buffalo, NY. This article describes her hand papermaking business and her work. I love Janna’s sentiment, as she describes her work as an artist, poet and musician: “Words, designs, and images all interact together to make one bigger statement or concept. The viewer doesn’t just look at the painting or hear a poem, they interact with the art, they experience it.”

Meet the artist Leigh Suggs on my podcast Paper Talk. I met Leigh 10 years ago when she took a sculptural papermaking class with me at The Penland School in North Carolina. We talk about her upbringing with a mom who was an art professor, how she didn’t think she’d ever be an artist, how her life just kept going in that direction, and today she makes a living making paper art. And of course we chat about her work: she’s interested in getting us to think about how we see and how we use language to describe what we see in her pieces that employ optical trickery. Enjoy our conversation!

Art Zone’s, Nancy Guppy (Seattle), recently interviewed Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s founder Cynthia Sears. This is so worth a listen (you’ll find the interview at 6:49 – 14:35) as Cynthia gives her description of an artist’s book and talks about several of the books in the exhibition. If you don’t know, BIMA has a gallery dedicated to artist’s books collected by Cynthia. Open Sesame: The Magic of Artist’s Books Revealed just opened and runs through June 9th.

This is a beautiful 1000 Cranes story (if you don’t know the origin story about Sadako, you must look it up). This one is about Farhan Afzal who lost a 9-year battle with brain cancer this week, and how his teachers inspired and honored him with origami. Warning: it is a tear jerker.

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About our Sponsor: Colophon Book Arts Supply is owned and operated by Mary Uthuppuru in Bloomington, Indiana. It is primarily an online retail store serving the unique and widespread book arts community composed of beginning students to advanced professionals that practice, teach, and study making books by hand. Colophon serves the needs of this diverse group with an extensive stock of tools and materials for bookbinding, marbling and their related disciplines, and maintains an intimate connection with customers that has been fostered for years. Through individualized correspondence during the ordering process and personal connections at professional events, Colophon seeks to provide its customers with quality tools and materials that will inspire them to make great work.

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