The Sunday Paper #543

February 16, 2025

I am really enjoying my online classes – I learn so much as the instructor. The Paper Year (a membership program) is now in its 5th year, and we had fun creating these Woven Paper Lanterns in January. Click through to watch the video, which also features other projects that members are working on, plus a sneak peek at our February project, designed by guest artist, Madonna Yoder. Registration for The Paper Year opens again in April. I am also currently guiding a group through the 7th annual Weave Through Winter, a month-long online class with a daily practice. More on that next week.

I love teaching in person too. We’ll be folding paper at the Red Cliff Paper Retreat in August (August 18-22, 6 spots left) and focusing on the various facets of hand papermaking in my Papermaking Master Class (June 23-27, one spot left).

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I enjoyed reading this article about an event in Atlanta in which three visual artists were paired with three composers, with the expectation that the results generated from their collaborations would be unique, enticing and meaningful. Click through to read about the collaboration between paper artist Kelly Taylor Mitchell and composer Chelsea Loew.

Kelly Taylor Mitchell’s handmade paper tapestry for A Homegoing intertwines natural fibers, textiles, and found bricks, serving as both a visual and performative guide in her collaboration with composer Chelsea Loew, exploring nature’s dual role as protection and barrier. (credit: Davida Cohen)

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This is a great conversation with Judith Solodkin, the sought-after printmaker trusted by artists from Louise Bourgeois to Howard Hodgkin. She shares her experiences as works from her personal archive go on auction at Christie’s.

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Crochet IV, from Crochet I-V, 1998. Mixografía® print in red, on handmade paper, initialed in pencil. Sheet: 27⅜ x 33 in (695 x 838 mm). Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Offered in Contemporary Edition from 12 to 26 February 2025 at Christie’s Online. © 2025 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Merrideth MacDonald is a paper artist who has been creating collages out of hundreds of little pieces of magazine paper for the last ten years.

One of Merrideth MacDonald’s collages out of little pieces of magazine paper. (Merrideth MacDonald)

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Dive into the enchanting world of paper sculpture. Check out this animated paper cutting produced for the recent 2025 Asian Winter Games.

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