Kozo is a Japanese fiber that when cooked and beaten can be made into beautiful sheets of handmade paper. The cooked fiber also can be pulled apart to create a lace-like effect. The “lace” Kozo can then be wrapped around objects to create delicate sculptures and containers. Participants are encouraged to bring small objects to use as a base for your own one-of-a-kind sculpture.
Suminagashi means “Ink floating on water,” and is the Japanese form of paper marbling. In this evening workshop you will learn the basics of this techniques, and make your own beautiful marbled creations. All supplies will be provided and are included in the cost of the workshop. Join us for some marvelous marbling!
Want to learn how to cast solid forms out of paper? Then join us for this workshop where participants will have the opportunity to explore the unique nature of paper as a casting medium. Students will learn how to capture texture and dimension with paper pulp from provided molds. All materials provided and all skill levels welcome.
Join four artists from the Sustainability in Chaos exhibition as they discuss their artwork and process. Heather Kohlmeier, Joyce Gold, and Kerri Cushman all have three-dimensional works in the exhibition. Some hang from the ceiling, others project from the wall, and one is a sculptural book. The variety is boundless!
Join four artists from the Sustainability in Chaos exhibition as they converse about their artwork and process. John Vinklarek, Kristen Tordella-Williams, Marjorie Fedyszyn, and Samuel Aguirre discuss the techniques of casting, rust painting, binding, and strengthening to make utterly unique works of paper art. This talk pulls back the “wizard's curtain” to reveal how these wonders are made.
The petal-fold book technique combines book binding with origami to create a book that blooms, or unfolds, as it opens. The book has decorative, paper-wrapped tag board covers, 8 origami-folded pages with a ribbon binding and closure. Join us to learn this beautiful book-binding technique. All skill levels welcome and materials provided.
This workshop is for Georgia Tech Students, Staff, and Faculty. Located in the Price Gilbert Library in the AirSpace room 2222.
We are excited to have Barbara “Scout ”Ery, the Executive Director of Paper Circle coming from Ohio to lead a backyard fibers paper making workshop with us. Participants will learn about processing foraged fibers: from collection, to cooking, and beating of the fibers. Participants will have the opportunity to make sheets of their own paper from yucca and abaca fibers. Join us for this workshop and learn to make paper from plants that grow in your own yard!
North American Hand Papermakers’ 2023 Juried Triennial has come to the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking. Juried by Helen Hiebert and Eileen Wallace, the exhibition features 29 artists who answered the call to use the medium of paper to transform the chaos of life today into a vision of endless possibilities. Please join us to celebrate with some of the exhibiting artists and exhibit committee this beautiful and inspiring exhibition. Free and open to the public.
Join in the Chinese tradition of making paper lanterns used to celebrate the final day of the Lunar New Year. Learn to make your own lantern and decorate your space with it. All skill levels welcome and materials provided.
This workshop is for Georgia Tech Students, Staff, and Faculty. Located in the Price Gilbert Library in the AirSpace room 2222.
Discover how to create your own delicate designs using two simple materials: paper and a blade! First, wander through the Geormetric Aljamia exhibit to gain inspiration from a series of cut paper pieces based on sacred geometry: patterns whose mathematical foundations are universal and have variants across many cultures. Then, develop motifs to tessellate or tile, and, cut out your design. Pre-designed templates will also be available. All skill levels welcome and all materials provided.