Paper Talk

Jaz Graf's recent body of work juxtaposes synthetic and raw materials, the virtual gaze with organic imprints, and satellite imagery with dust. It sets in motion, a contemporary discourse around intergenerational memory and cultural preservation. Graf exhibits locally and internationally, was most recently featured at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ and published in the peer-reviewed journal, Asi...

Amanda Thackray is a multidisciplinary ecofeminist artist-educator based in Newark, NJ, who crafts intricate artwork exploring the intersections between nature, industry, and human experience. She is the recipient of several Creative Catalyst Fund Fellowships, a Puffin Foundation Grant for Environmental Art, and a NJ State Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Residencies include The Arctic Circle...

Jim Patterson is a life-long papermaker and owner of Two Rivers Paper since 1986. Two Rivers Paper specialises in hand-made rag papers, using traditional methods, each sheet being carefully crafted one by one. After many years of production in a water and solar powered mill, Two Rivers is now situated at East Quay Arts Centre in Watchet, Somerset, UK.

Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist working across numerous disciplines, including bookwork, collage, installation, sculpture, and photography. He holds a BFA from York University in Toronto, ON, and an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. He lectures and exhibits internationally and is the subject of the monograph Doug Beube: Breaking the Codex  (2011). Beube received a Pollock-K...

Lyndal Thorne is an arts administrator with a passion for grassroots arts activity and coordinator of the biennial Paper on Skin Wearable Art Competition, which launched in Burnie, Tasmania in 2012. She is also President of stARTs North-West (formerly Burnie Arts Council Inc) and recently retired as the chair of Slipstream Circus after three years tenure in the role. During 2024 she undertook a 12...

Mia Semingson received her MFA in photography and electronic media from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and France as well as nationally. Mia taught photography and book arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder for twelve years. She and her husband Gerald Trainor have owned Two Hands Paperie since January 2010,...

John Risseeuw received his BS, MA, and MFA degrees in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in1968, 1972, and 1973, respectively. Risseeuw is Emeritus Professor of Art at Arizona State University where he taught printmaking, book arts, and papermaking from 1980 to 2015. He directed the Pyracantha Press, founded in 1982 as the book arts imprint of ASU; his own Cabbagehead Press was f...

John Babcock lives and works at his studio near Santa Cruz,California, where he creates works using primarily paper as his medium. His work has been shown in over thirty major art museums in the United States and Europe. Most recently, his work was included in Contemporary Crafts at the Mesa Art Museum and the Shanghai Paper Art Biennale in Shanghai, China.  In addition to exhibiting his work, Bab...

Tran Hong Nhung is the founder of Zo Project, a social enterprise, which preserves, supports, and expands Vietnamese traditional paper and papermaking techniques in a sustainable and creative way. Zó Paper is run by  a dynamic young team who wish to bringtraditional values into contemporary society. In return, their profits are going back into the community of papermakers by creating job opportuni...

Denise Jill Marshall runs Blue Skies Above Photography. As a landscape photographer for more than 45 years, her recent work has focused on weaving her photographs, using many different types of photographic printing paper to create new ways for light to interact with image. Through deconstruction. she is able to create a new whole, in her art and in herself. Marshall is motivated by light, color,...

Lee McDonald is a papermaker with a long history of making tools. He has been involved with paper for over 5 decades, starting in the early years of Twinrocker Handmade Paper, and then moving on to making custom moulds, followed by building beaters, presses, and papermaking dryers. His future projects include ensuring how techniques and tools will be available in the future. McDonald is currently...

Naomi J. Kendall is an artist based in Somerset in the UK. She completed a Foundation Course at Cheltenham School of Art, pursued a degree in Art History at Leicester University and received a postgraduate diploma at Manchester University in Gallery and Museum Studies. After a career working in galleries and running community arts projects, she returned to making her own work. In 2022 she was the...

Originally from Mexico City, via California, and South Carolina, Paulina Johnson has been immersed in the fields of art and graphic design for over 20 years. She received a joint BFA from the Academy of Art University and the University of San Francisco in 1999. In 2017, she earned an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.  Paulina has been an ongoing educator and is currently an exhibiting pa...

Carole Kunstadt's works often invoke a metaphysical quality. They reference antique books, music manuscripts, maps and artifacts - deconstructing paper and text and using it in metaphorical ways. Through the manipulation of the materials – history, memory and time merge in a hybrid form.   Born in Boston, Kunstadt spent her childhood in a small New England town, received a BFA from the Hartfor...

Dorothy McGuinness is a contemporary basket weaver who lives and works in Everett, Washington. She took her first basketmaking class in 1987 and has studied basket-weaving techniques that have been handed down through the centuries. Dorothy has worked extensively with Jiro Yonezawa, a contemporary Japanese basket maker and teacher. She discovered her medium of choice in 2000, when she took a works...

Matt LaBoone is an origami artist and papermaker in Orlando, Florida, who has a focus on folding and designing insects as origami subjects, and has developed thin and crisp paper especially suited for folding them. Over the years, LaBoone has found that most commercially available papers, and even many origami specific papers are not well suited for what he likes to design and fold, which is what...

Galen Gibson-Cornell was born and raised in Maryville, Missouri and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from Truman State University in 2009, (which included a 2007 study-abroad in Angers, France). He completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin in 2013 and then set off on a year-long Fulbright fellowship to Budapest, Hungary. In the following years, Gibson-Cor...

Founded nearly 30 years ago by paper designer Marianne Guély, Studio Marianne Guély is an exceptional creative atelier at the crossroads of art, design, and craftsmanship. Specialising in the poetic staging of paper, the studio conjures up immersive worlds where imagination is reignited and stories come to life. Internationally acclaimed, the studio weaves tales and visual narratives that awaken t...

Cynthia Nourse Thompson is a Professor and the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University. Prior to this position, for six years she was Associate Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Book Arts & Printmaking and Studio Art at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She has also served as Associate Professor and Curator of Exhibi...

James Ojascastro is an origamist, papermaker, and botanist, with a Ph. D. in ethnobotany from Washington University in St. Louis in collaboration with the Missouri BotanicalGarden. Ojascastro employs a combination of methods – including fiber trait measurements, experimental papermaking, species distribution modeling, andsemistructured interviews – to explore the history, biogeography, and conserv...

Authors and artists Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour talk about their new book, Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp . A landmark book that profiles an artistic movement that has operated largely outside the mainstream art world, this book serves as both an overdue history and up-close look at the range, versatility, and brilliance of art created with colored paper pulp.

Rachel Singel is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. Singel grew up on a small farm in Charlottesville, Virginia and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 2009 and a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2013. She has participated in residencies at the Penland School of Crafts, the Venice Printmaking Studio, Internazionale di...

Darryl Bedford, an Australian artist and innovator, is redefining the possibilities of paper. Blending traditional origami with cutting-edge digital design, he crafts intricate, kinetic sculptures that challenge our perception of this humble material. Born in Perth, Australia, and now based in London. Darryl is a teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, trauma-informed practitioner, and paper engine...

Catherine Lucky Chang is an artist, art educator, and yoga teacher based in Palo Alto, CA whose work combines papermaking, printmaking, and painting. Born in Atlanta, GA, she holds a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA from the University of Georgia. Chang’s practice is an exploration of inner peace, wholeness, and joy. Her abstract works on her own handmade paper range from small and intimate to...

Michelle Samour a multi-media artist whose work explores the intersections between science, technology, and the natural world, as well as the socio-political repercussions of redefining borders and boundaries. Samour has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Tufts European Center in Talloires, France; and an Artist-in-Residence at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine; The Banff Centre in Canad...