The Sunday Paper #512

June 9, 2024

A quick note: I’m on my way to Tokyo as you read this, and I’ll be taking a blog sabbatical for the rest of the month. The next issue of The Sunday Paper will be posted in July! Follow my travels on Instagram if you wish.

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The Paper Year opens for registration again July 1-10, 2024, and we’ll be celebrating with a FREE Zoom workshop on July 1st. Come make a Pop-UP House with me. Click here to sign up for the workshop and get the supply list. Please invite your paper-loving friends.

Check out the Pop Up & Out Books that Paper Year participants created in May with guest artist Kit Davey (work by Dale Emmart pictured below).

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How fun! A giant paper boat that really floats and holds a person. 1070 square feet (100 sq metres) of paper were used to create the 12-foot long vessel. The boat weighs approximately 220lbs (100kg). 500ft (150m) of sticky tape and ten litres of glue were used to finish it.

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From Fiber to Finish, From Petals to Paper. These two events at the Arboretum at Penn State Childhood’s Gate Children’s Garden remind me of The Papermaker’s Garden Project I initiated years and years ago. Instructors from Penn State University Libraries will lead the workshops, and I love how they are fostering our future: “Understanding the physical properties and processes of how paper is made is helpful to those of us who are responsible for preserving books and other documents. We hope our papermaking event will help participants appreciate both plants and paper in a new way and introduce the art and science of papermaking to a new generation of budding conservators.”

The Arboretum at Penn State grows papyrus, the earliest known plant material used for making a writing material, the precursor to paper. Attendees of University Libraries’ papermaking events will learn about a variety of plants at the Arboretum that can be used to make paper. Credit: Penn State University Libraries / Penn State. Creative Commons

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Ooh la la! If you happen to be in Singapore, hop on over to see the works on paper by Helen Frankenthaler. The exhibition (June 29 – August 25) introduces close to 40 of her print works from the National Collection of Singapore and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York, with a spotlight on her woodcuts on handmade paper. This special exhibition also explores Frankenthaler’s influential and collaborative partnership with American master printer Kenneth Tyler.

Helen Frankenthaler, Gateway (Screen), 1988, 28 colour etching, relief, aquatint and stencil on TGL handmade paper mounted in a hand-patinated cast bronze screen (three panels), 205.7 x 251.5 x 172.1 cm. © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York. Collection of Singapore Art Museum, comprising part of the National Collection of Singapore.

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What a fascinating description of folding: how a single-celled organism uses an element of origami to rapidly attack.

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Paper Tidbits

• Have you had a chance to listen to my interview with Roberto Benavidez on Paper Talk?

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