The Sunday Paper #503

April 7, 2024

I’m flying home from Toronto today, where I spent a couple of days with my childhood friends Alicia & Sharon (we celebrated meeting 50 years ago)! Of course, I had to make a couple of paper stops, and one of those was serendipitous. Remember my giveaway for the 500th blog post? Two of the winners, Paula and Vicki, both live in Toronto, so I met up with them near our airbnb, to hand deliver copies of The Art of Papercraft.

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Clockwise from top left: we three amigos, The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library has an incredible exhibition of pop-up books (open through April 26th); The Japanese Paper Place is the largest paper warehouse I’ve ever seen (this wall of chiyogami features at least 500 different designs); we took the ferry to Ward’s Island, where there were lots of little Little Free Art Library boxes – this one filled with origami rabbits.

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Registration for The Paper Year, my membership group, closes on Tuesday April 10th. Here are the techniques and projects we’ll be exploring over the next three months. It is such a fun community to be a part of. Check out this page to learn more about the group, watch the video and join us!

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Nancy Jacobi, founder of The Japanese Paper Place, gave us a lovely tour of the warehouse. Below – clockwise from top left: hanging piece by Susan Ruptash; Andrew Huot of Big River Bindery, Nancy Jacobi, me, and Susan Ruptash; a sheet of heritage washi from my paper order; and a paper curtain.

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The Hallie Ford Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a small but growing collection of work by self-taught artists — and they’ve unveiled it. A sampling of this work may be seen through April 22 in the Salem museum’s Study Gallery and Print Study Center.

Matt Conklin (American, born 1989), “Untitled (apartment building),” 2022-23; paper, cardboard, digital photographs, and acrylic paint.

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Three Masters of Fine Arts graduate students now have their thesis exhibits on display at The Center for Design and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Human Ecology.

Heather Kohlmeier, Photo Courtesy The Artist

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A Stockholm-based startup has developed a way to turn paper waste into a durable, high-tech composite it calls “wood metal.”

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Paper Tidbits

• Have you listened to my interview with Claire Van Vliet on Paper Talk?