Explore the properties of abaca, a beautiful translucent paper fiber with a high a high shrinkage rate, while making small sculptural objects. Participants will pull sheets of abaca paper and then experiment with placing wire or string between the layers, so that as the paper dries it will be transformed into unique sculptural forms. All supplies provided and all levels of experience welcome.
Create two illuminated paper structures in this day-long experience with internationally renowned artist Helen Hiebert. We’ll begin with the Party Light, a simplified version of the collapsible chochin lanterns originally hung outside of shops in Japan. Collage paper onto a simple reed armature and add a hanging mechanism so that your lantern can be hung, carried, or placed on a surface. We’ll also create a lightweight Inflatable Ball, and we’ll explore ways to shape the panels to create a variety of lantern forms.
Please join us in celebrating the Legacies In Paper exhibit at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking. The artists featured in the inaugural triennial series Legacies in Paper, Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, & Helen Hiebert have spent a lifetime exploring the boundless qualities of handmade paper.
Join us for this workshop to explore an early type of camera-less photography called a cyanotype. Use fabric pre-coated with a mixture of chemicals, the power of the sun, and plants to create your own. Participants will also learn about the history of cyanotypes from the technique’s invention, its first photographic use, to paper artists who create beautiful pieces of artwork in this style. All materials provided. This workshop is for Georgia Tech Students, Staff, and Faculty. Located in the Price Gilbert Library, AirSpace room 2222.
In, this lecture, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes will share the findings of two research projects exploring a group of Pahari drawings (from present-day Himachal Pradesh) and Kashmiri manuscripts held in French and Dutch collections. Through close visual analysis, fiber identification, and historical research, these studies traced the origins, materials, and techniques used to produce paper in northwestern India.
The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking is excited to welcome internationally renowned paper artist Radha Pandey for a one-day experience. In this workshop, participants will learn how to extract dyes using natural materials for application on paper. Processes such as brush-dyeing, estimating the amount of dyestuff needed for projects, and use of the best types of mordants and their results will be taught. Discussion and demonstration about what types of handmade papers work best and why will be part of the experience as well.
During the final virtual talk for the Night Circus exhibition, featured artists discuss the process of designing and creating the covers of their books. They also discuss how the cover reinforces the themes of the subject matter of the books.
We are excited to have guest Artist Kelly Taylor Mitchel back for a papermaking workshop at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking. In this two-hour workshop, participants will be introduced to blow out and deckle box papermaking techniques using flax and other fibers. This workshop is ideal for those with sheet formation experience, but beginners are welcome. Blow out and deckle box techniques bring collage methods to the vat and spark layering and material play.
In this talk artists who use calligraphy as a major aspect of their books and artists who use narrative pictures discuss the merits of their way of communicating through artists books.
When learning how to make a book with a decorative sewn binding, the sewing card is a wonderful and useful tool to aid you in mastering simple to advanced sewing patterns. Practicing the mechanics of any sewing on a piece of two-dimensional card is tantamount to working on an actual book.