• Learn to make papers like those you see above at the annual Red Cliff Paper Retreat! This is the only event I hold in my Colorado studio. Join us Sept 7-9 and/or Sept 11-13.
• I wrote a guest blog post this week for Thinking3D about my artist’s book Tangential.

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How cool is this? Cross Cultural Collaborative facilitates cultural exchanges between creative people of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels at it’s cultural center in a fishing village in Ghana. One of it’s many workshops teaches Ghanaian children how to make paper from sugar cane leaves and books, boxes and other paper items. The sale of the products pays for school fees and teaches the children a work ethic and pride in self. Contact aba@culturalcollaborative.org for more information about the children or traveling to Ghana.

If you have a copy of the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar, have you made the February project, the sliceform heart? I’d love to see a photo! Still need a calendar? The how-to content is everlasting, and they are available at a steep discount in my online paper sale.

Ladies: need some red shoes for your Valentine’s Day date? Check out these paper shoes by Violise Lunn. #notpractical

Magnolia Editions in Oakland produces some really innovative work! What sets them apart from other printmakers is that they blend techniques that are hundreds of years old with ones that are cutting-edge. Don Farnsworth, who founded and still runs the shop, makes paper replicating the kind that was used by artists during the Renaissance, and he also uses a digital flatbed printer to make prints.

This is some fantastic writing by Joshua Rothman in the New Yorker about a paper jam (i.e. a machine malfunction on a huge piece of papermaking equipment). “At the apex of its trajectory, at the moment when it was supposed to connect with the conveyor belt, its back corners drooped. They dragged on the platform below, and, like a trapeze flier missing a catch, the paper sank downward.” Read the entire article here.

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