Join us for the final virtual artist talk of the Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition exhibition. We'll be closing the series with presentations from Sara Rayo, lucha rodríguez, and Claude-Gerard Jean.
About the Exhibit:
Weaving a Web is the fourth in a series of five talks featuring artists on view in The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition exhibit at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.
In this virtual talk, we will be hearing from exhibiting artists, rhiannon skye tafoya and Julie VonDerVellen, both working the tradition of weaving into their paper art.
About the Exhibit:
Join us for the third talk in the virtual series for The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition. Artists Alicia Kelly and Karen Margolis will be providing insight into their large scale installations within the exhibit.
About the Exhibit:
On the Edge is the second in a series of five talks featuring artists on view in The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition exhibit at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.
Join this engaging artist talk to gain insight into the inspirations and creative processes of Zai Divecha, Katherine Glover, and Samuelle Green. Explore the ways contemporary paper art exists at the edge of tradition and experimentation.
About the Exhibit:
Join us for an engaging artist talk featuring creators from the Craft of Paper Exhibition as they discuss their work, creative processes, and the ideas that inspire their practice.
About the Exhibit:
Transformed Environments is a collaboration with the Architecture course Museum History, Theory, and Design taught by Myrsini Mamoli as well as the Literature, Media, and Communication course Graphic and Visual Design taught by Daniel Phelps.
Legacies in Paper honors the dedication that Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Helen Hiebert have had to papermaking as a tool for their artistic expression. During this virtual artist talk, hear the artists discuss the trajectory of their careers, their relationship with the medium of handmade paper, and their current explorations.
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.
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.
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.