Transform traditional bark fiber into bark paper and delicate lace. Participants will make sheets from the cooked inner bark of Kozo plants and use a shaped stone as a beating implement to form sheets. Participants will also learn to create lace Kozo and use it to make 3-D forms.  Explore the museum’s current exhibition Bark Rhythms, which focuses on bark paper and bark cloth traditions from Mexico, Hawaii, the Polynesian Islands, Indonesia, and Uganda. 

Join speakers James Ojascastro and Cekouat Elim León Peralta while they speak about the Bark Rhythms: Contemporary Innovations & Ancestral Traditions exhibition. Ojascastro will discuss Bast fibers for bark paper & cloth, and León Peralta will discuss his artwork and process for his Papel Amate from Mexico.

Join artists Sheila Nakitende and Tedi Permadi from the Bark Rhythms: Contemporary Innovations & Ancestral Traditions exhibition as they discuss their artwork and process.  Sheila Nakitende will speak about her Ugandan barkcloth and Tedi Permadi will speak about his Indonesian Daluang bark paper.

Inspired by the Jacob’s Ladder technique, this box is a double-hinged container made of book board wrapped in beautiful decorative paper. It's double hinge allows the two halves of the box to open and rotate all the way around each other. Click on the video link below to see how the box rotates as it opens. Join us for this workshop and learn the magic of box making. All materials provided and all skills welcome!

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.