The Sunday Paper #571

I’ve been in Atlanta all week (I’m flying home today), installing the Legacies in Paper exhibition with Nancy Cohen and Sara Garden Armstrong at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta. The museum houses the collection that Dard Hunter traveled the world to assemble during the first half of the 20th Century, and there are exhibits dedicated to the history and processes of making paper by hand, along with the contemporary galleries, where our works are on display through January 30, 2026.

This post is bit different, with highlights from the trip, instead of the regular Sunday Paper.

I plan to create a video about my work in the show soon, but in the meantime, here are images of the three rooms, each featuring an artist in the show. We all work with abaca in distinctive ways.

The museum helped us prepare slide presentations about the trajectory of our work. These can be viewed in the museum, but you can also watch them at the links below.

Nancy Cohen: (Nancy’s presentation: 13:27)

Sara Garden Armstrong: (Sara’s presentation)

Helen Hiebert: (Helen’s presentation)

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We were able to spend a few hours behind the scenes, viewing papers and artifacts that are held in the collection. This is a watermarked bank note, and the text on the facing page (in gorgeous script and ink) reads Three Dippings and Three Couchings.

To round out the week, I taught a workshop at the museum yesterday. We created expandable, inflatable, illuminated forms.

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I’ll be back with a regular edition of The Sunday Paper next week!

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