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I had the pleasure of interviewing the authors of the new book, Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp  Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour, on Paper Talk. This is a landmark book that profiles an artistic movement that has operated largely outside the mainstream art world, and it serves as both an overdue history and up-close look at the range, versatility, and brilliance of art created with colored paper pulp.

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Paper Stories joins together three contemporary artists—Dominique Prévost, Susan Ruptash and Heejung Shin—who share a mutual respect and love of paper. Although each artist expresses this in different ways, they share common themes of repetition, rhythm and poetry. Through a restrained palette, the works celebrate the importance of light, and invite viewers to pay attention to details of texture, colour and movement. Through April 13th at Propeller Art Gallery in Toronto.

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I love the mission of Paper for Water, a nonprofit that’s raising awareness of the global water crisis and bringing clean water to communities worldwide. The charity was founded in 2011 by sisters Isabelle and Katherine Adams—then 8 and 5 years old—after they learned that a child was dying every 15 seconds from unclean water and that millions of girls like them were spending their day hauling water rather than attending school. Join me by sponsoring a star – 250 intricately folded stars—which are 34” and 46” tall—can be sponsored by the public to benefit the Paper for Water mission. An art installation called Folding the Future will appear later this month over the ice rink at Galleria Dallas.

Paper for Water’s Folding the Future art installation at Galleria Dallas [Photo: Galleria Dallas]

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MIT professor Eric Demaine explores the power of folding art into everything from medicine to space exploration. I caught this phrase, which resonates: “Origami provides a powerful tool for making transformable shapes”.

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Author’s Corner

With my new book coming out in November, I thought I’d spend the months leading up to publication sharing a bit about the process of bringing a book to life. Feel free to send me your questions, and I’ll try to address them here.

Let’s begin with how I got into writing how-to books. I had some nice breaks early in my career, and one of those was receiving a letter from an editor at Storey Publishing, asking me whether I’d like to submit a proposal to write a book about making paper with plants. Now I have to tell you that at this point in my life, I pretty much hated writing – I never enjoyed writing papers in high school and college – but I said yes, thinking that it was an opportunity I shouldn’t pass up! You might be wondering why on earth this editor approached me about writing this book! Well, she had seen a one paragraph description about a workshop I was teaching at the NY Horticultural Society called compost papermaking. This was my spin on making paper with plants, because I didn’t have a garden and I was turning compost at the local community garden. That brief workshop description intrigued the editor, and as an acquisitions editor, she was required to come up with a certain number of book proposals each year. Storey Publishing does a lot of gardening and do-it-yourself publications, and they were branching out into crafts at the time, so this seemed like a good fit to her. I still had to go through the process of sending her a proposal. The rest is history…

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