The Annual Members Showcase invites artists to explore their own personal passion and connection to papermaking. This tactile and intimate art form requires a deep understanding of the traditions and techniques involved. The Showcase aims to highlight the incredible diversity and creativity found in handmade paper artistry, pushing the boundaries of what is possible and celebrating the transformative power of art.
The 'Shared Obsessions' Showcase goes beyond the conventional scope of paper as a mere surface for writing or illustration. It delves into the material's innate potential for artistic expression, serving as a conduit for both aesthetic innovation and emotional resonance. This exhibition not only questions the limits of paper as a medium but also seeks to articulate the deeper, often ineffable, bonds that artists forge with their creations.
Janice Agustin
Going Beyond Borders
2022, Pulp Pouring, 12" x 12"
Warm Mixtures
2023, Abaca, 5" x 5"
Artist Bio — Agustin was born and raised on the island of Guam and moved to Southern California at the age of thirteen. She received her bachelor’s in Art with an emphasis in Book Arts and Publications in 2015 from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with Academic and Departmental Honors. Agustin is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking at the University of Arkansas- Fayetteville.
Karen Baldner
The Presence of Your Absence XXXII
2020, Handmade Abaca paper with embedded horse hair, charcoal, colored pencil, text transfer, 30" x 12"
The Presence of Your Absence XXVI
2020, Handmade Abaca paper with embedded horse hair, charcoal, colored pencil, text transfers, 12" x 10"
Artist Bio — Karen Baldner work is based in drawing/printmaking, papermaking, small editions of artist books and is represented by Booklyn and Vamp & Tramp Booksellers. She is on the faculty of Herron School of Art & Design, Indiana University/ Indianapolis where she teaches Book Arts, Papermaking, Letterpress and has established a minor in Book Arts. Karen’s work has been supported by National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright grants as well as state grants from Arkansas and Indiana. She shows extensively throughout the US and Europe and her work is in many public and private collections in the US, Canada and Germany.
Lea Basile-Lazarus
The Tides Bring Life
2022, Paper Pulp Painting, embellished with oil pastel and markers, 33" X 48"
When the Rooster Crows
2022, Paper pulp painting with embellishments, 24" X 38"
Artist Bio — Lea received her BA in Art Education from The College of New Jersey and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She taught art for 28 years. Lea is a professional artist creating contemporary prints and paper pulp paintings, exhibiting and selling her artwork. Lea currently lives in Gig Harbor, WA, where she has a home printmaking studio. She is active in the Gig Harbor art community, where she serves on the city's Arts Commission and other arts organizations. Lea’s paper pulp paintings are created annually at Hook Pottery Paper in LaPorte, Indiana.
Andre Lee Bassuet
Entangled
2019-2023, Artist book, paper pulp painting, blackout poetry, lipstick prints, embroidery, 16" x 12"
Artist Bio — Andre Lee Bassuet is an artist, designer and educator based in Rhode Island. As a bicultural Korean American, she's lived between two cultures and seeks her roots by exploring work on the body, nature and memory. She completed her MFA at Osaka University of Arts on a Monbusho scholarship and a Bachelors from New York University. She has participated in artist residencies at AS220 and Manhattan Graphics Center and she currently teaches the Art of the Book at Brown University.
Heike Berl
Resistance / Cells
2020, Material printing on handmade paper, 16.5" x 11.8"
Black Bloom
2020, Material printing on handmade paper, collage, folding, 67" x 47.2"
Artist Bio — Heike Berl is a visual artist based in Dresden, Germany. A graduate of the Anhalt University Dessau of Design and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, she explores the idea of poetry and transience in life and nature in her work. In 2003, Berl studied with Professor Andreas von Weizsäcker at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, which helped inspire her to become a paper artist. Since that time, she has worked as a visual artist, specializing in pulp painting, drawing, and editions.
Meg Black
Cape Ann Shoreline
2021, Cotton and abaca pulp, 40" x 40" x 3"
Rocks and Water as a metaphor for Life's Journey.
2020, Abaca and cotton pulp, pigment, pearlescent pigment, 40" x 40" x 3"
Artist Bio — Meg received a Ph.D. in Education from Lesley University, an MFA in Studio Art from the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA from the State University of New York, Oswego. She has extensive teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate art education levels.
Meg’s work has been included in multiple group and solo exhibitions and has been acquisitioned into private, corporate, healthcare, and public collections, including the United States Embassy, Belgrade, and the State of New Hampshire 1% for Art Program.
She is the 2023 recipient of the Sara Gilfert Award for paper excellence.
Lian Brehm
Desert Forest
2022, Cast abaca paper pulp, pigments, paper cord, 15" x 15" x 9"
Desert Sea
2022, Cast abaca paper pulp, pigments, paper cord, 24" x 24" x 13"
Artist Bio — Lian Brehm’s sculpture pushes the boundaries and physical limits of paper, while capturing the opposing qualities of translucency, opaqueness, light, and shadow. Working in abaca or kozo, wet pulp is cast or applied directly onto organic forms. Her work explores the relationships between thin cast forms and appendages or inclusions such as raffia, paper cords, string, and metal. Lian’s work was included in the 2021 Feasts on Paper exhibition in Shanghai China. She is the recipient of a 2017 Blanche E. Colman Award. She is an MFA graduate of RISD and a BFA graduate from College of Ceramics at Alfred.
Danqi Cai
Infiltration
2022, Overbeaten abaca, stencil pulp paint wash, collage, and pulp paint, 10.25" x 14"
Sulfur Swirl
2022, Overbeaten abaca, pulp paint, and collage, 11" x 8.75"
Artist Bio — Danqi Cai received her BFA in Printmaking and Humanistic Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK). She joins the University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor of Foundations in Fall 2023. Cai has shown nationally in juried exhibitions at venues including the Alper Initiative for Washington Art (DC), Bradbury Art Museum (AR), International Print Center New York (NYC), and the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art (VA). She received the Muskat Studios Prize from The Boston Printmakers 2019 North American Print Biennial and the Best in Show award from the 2018 Four Rivers Print Biennial. Her work has been supported by artist residencies, including the Chautauqua School of Art and the Hambidge Center. She served as an Executive Board Member for the Mid American Print Council from 2020 to 2022.
Khwanchira Chindamanee
Decorticate of Nariphon 01
2023, Artist-made Kozo paper, silk-screen printing, various
Life Cycle/ Funeral/ Transubstantiation of Her
2023, Artist-made Kozo paper and Lithography, 45" x 70" x 70"
Artist Bio — Nual Chindamanee is an American-Thai artist. She was born and raised in Thailand. After unlikely journey, she became a U.S. citizen in 2019. In 2023 Nual earned Master of Fine Art in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She fascinated by the theme of impermanence as manifested through the cycle of birth, aging, and death. During her time at RISD, she received a scholarship to study Japanese paper making in Iowa and Ohio. The experience was transformative for both her printing and soft sculpture. Later, learned about mycelium and began incorporating this living element into her work.
Colleen Couch
I Wish I Could Speak Your Language
2022, Botanicals imbedded in handmade abaca paper, bailing wire, 28"x 22"
Colorless Dream
2022, Bailing wire dipped in abaca pulp, wood frame, 41.5" x 62" x 4"
Artist Bio — I graduated from the Memphis College of Art in 2000 with a BFA in sculpture. During my studies there, I also enrolled in several papermaking courses and merged that medium into my sculptures. For over two decades, I've cultivated a passion for the beautification of living spaces. With light fixtures and wall sculptures made from handmade paper, my work adds dimension, depth, and stunning light to both commercial and residential design projects.
Georgie Cunningham
Abaca with Olive Wood
2023, Handmade Abaca Paper and Olive Wood, 12" x 8" x 18"
Artist Bio — Georgie Cunningham came to papermaking with a background in broadcast and graphic design. She studied papermaking at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas. Her works in paper have shown in galleries across the country. She is a current member of IAPMA and a long-standing member of NAHP. Cunningham works out of her studio in the Texas Hill Country.
Kerri Cushman
Wayfinding — 2023, Letterpress printed on handmade paper (abaca/cotton), 21.5" X 6.5" X 0.25" (extends 43" open)
Artist Bio — Kerri Cushman is a sculptural book artist and papermaker with an affinity for letterpress. She is a professor of art teaching papermaking, bookbinding, and letterpress printing at Longwood University in Virginia. Her innovative work was selected for the cover of 500 Handmade Books and has been featured in 500 Handmade Books vol. I & II, 1000 Artists’ Books, 500 Paper Objects, and in Hand Papermaking’s portfolio Fiber Exposed! and the Language of Color. She conducts workshops across the country, exhibits her work internationally, and is the proprietor of Performing Goats Press.
Ana Fernandez
Ecosystem
2023, Pulp painting on a cotton sheet of handmade paper, 14.5" x 11.5"
Overhaul
2023, Pulp painting with embedded textile materials on a sisal and flax sheet of handmade paper, 24" x 30"
Artist Bio — Ana Fernandez is an artist based in the US and Spain. She was born in Madrid and obtained an MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has worked at the University of Michigan teaching drawing and printmaking courses.
She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Japan, Cuba, Scotland, Italy, France, and Spain. Her artwork encompasses printmaking, painting, drawing, fibers, and collage. It reflects a tactile sensibility and an affinity for layering, patterning, and ornamentation. It focuses on the interaction between fashion, representations of the female body, and femininity.
Jules Findley
Water-Babies Series 2
2023, Handmade paper, 55" x 31.5"
Artist Bio — Jules Findley’s work integrates creative practice, working with fibre-based materials, using the theory of affect with emotion of the embodied materials to produce new work. Paper becomes the metaphor to discuss research questions that connects humanity with affect in the work and the body. The domestic environment becomes the studio, as familial domesticity affects so much of our psychological aspects of who we are and what we become.
J. Leigh Garcia
My Sister's Tortillas
2022, Onion papyrus, handmade washi paper, screenprint, cast paper, onion sack, yupo, 11" x 32"
Texas 1015
2021, Onion papyrus, handmade washi paper, screenprint, cast paper, onion sack, yupo20" x 26"
Artist Bio — Garcia received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and BFA from the University of North Texas. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Emerging Printmaker Award from Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), Gamblin Emerging Artist Award, and Arts Institute Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship. Her work is included in over 15 permanent collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX. Garcia currently lives in Kent, OH where she is an Assistant Professor of Print Media and Photography.
Joyce Gold
Blue Symphony #1
2022, Handmade paper, 20" X 18" X 6"
Collection #6
2022, Handmade Paper, 20"X 18"X 6.5"
Artist Bio — Paper artist Joyce Gold pushes the boundaries of traditional papermaking to create works that are new and innovative. Her work has been described, “...it punctuates the depth and breath of papermaking.” Joyce uses various plant fibers with assorted papermaking techniques and markings to accentuate the profound layers and complexity of her work. Her work has been selected in many exhibitions across the nation and is also the recipient of awards from Arnold Grummer, Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory, and Fiber Art Now magazine. Joyce creates her paper works in her studio in Denver, CO.
Melissa Harshman
Whispers of Skin
2022, Monoprints on Handmade Paper, 52"x 52"
Stitched Up
2023, Pulp Painting on Abaca, 14" x 11"
Artist Bio — Melissa Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. She has taught at the University of Georgia since 1993. She was awarded a University of Georgia Senior Faculty Research Grant in 2019 titled “Explorations in Papermaking”. She received an Arts Lab Fellowship from UGA in 2022 focusing on papermaking wall installations. Her work was recently displayed at the Hunderton Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey in “Press +” and “Rebel/Re-Belle” at the Asheville Museum of Art in Asheville, North Carolina. She recently completed the Denbo Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center focusing on handmade paper.
Uma Kinoshita
From Tree to Paper: Traditional Japanese Paper-making Process
2023, Japanese hand-screened paper (kozo), Dried seedlings of Tororo aoi (Abelmoschus manihot), Twigs of kozo, Paper thread, Inkjet photographs, 6.7" x 4.7" x 0.7"
Mementos of Happiness: Original Print Collection Book
2022, Kamikawasaki-washi (Hand-screened kozo paper from Fukushima), Gelatin silver print, Aizu Cotton (Traditional fabric of Fukushima) for book cover, Hand-screened kozo paper dyed with persimmon for the inside of the case, 18" x 13.7" x 1"
Artist Bio — Lian Brehm’s sculpture pushes the boundaries and physical limits of paper, while capturing the opposing qualities of translucency, opaqueness, light, and shadow. Working in abaca or kozo, wet pulp is cast or applied directly onto organic forms. Her work explores the relationships between thin cast forms and appendages or inclusions such as raffia, paper cords, string, and metal. Lian’s work was included in the 2021 Feasts on Paper exhibition in Shanghai China. She is the recipient of a 2017 Blanche E. Colman Award. She is an MFA graduate of RISD and a BFA graduate from College of Ceramics at Alfred.
Lauren Krukowski
Holding together (I)
2023, Handmade pigmented papers, watercolor monotype and drawing on BFK Rives paper, and cotton thread, 11"x 8.25"
Cover
2022, Handmade pigmented papers, oil monotype, and cotton thread, 9.25"x 10.25"
Artist Bio — Lauren Krukowski is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in papermaking, printmaking, and collage. She draws tactile and highly personal abstractions from the natural and architectural environments in which she lives. Krukowski has exhibited nationally at the International Print Center, NY; Public Space One, IA; Monmouth College, IL; Guttenberg Arts, NJ; and Soo Visual Arts Center, MN. In 2010 Krukowski earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This May, she received an MA in printmaking from the University of Iowa with a secondary focus in papermaking at the University of Iowa's Center for the Book.
Elizabeth Mackie
Deleware River #2
2023, video-12 minute
Pond/Map
2023, Handmade Abaca Paper and Pigment, 23"x 24"x 2.5"
Artist Bio — Elizabeth Mackie is an interdisciplinary artist working in handmade paper, sculpture, installations, photography, video, sound, and textiles. Elizabeth has exhibited her artwork and videos in various institutions throughout the United States and abroad, including Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Bulgaria, England, Canada, Austria, Poland, Spain, Denmark, France, Italy, Republic of Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Chile and Brazil. Current exhibitions include EARTHSPEAK: Giving Voice to Paper, International Biennial for Paper Fibre Art 2023/24, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute (NTCRI); IAPMA Congress exhibition: Paper Alive, Dresden, Germany; and Mother Nature vs Human Nature: The Inequity of Climate Resilience, 2023 New Jersey Arts Annual.
Nina Meledandri
Prayer for The Earth, 1
2021, Handmade paper, organic material, metallic thread, 12"x 12"
Prayer for The Earth, 2
2021, Handmade paper, organic material, metallic thread, 12" x 12"
Artist Bio — Nina Meledandri is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating with a BA from Hampshire College in Film/Photo, she became a freelance photographer, published by the NYTimes Magazine, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, and the Village Voice among others. In the early 90’s she taught herself oil painting, developing a language as an abstract painter. In 2003 she joined the David Findlay Gallery, and she continues to show throughout the NY area. Since 2017, her studio practice has revolved around papermaking. No matter her medium, her work is strongly rooted in her love of the natural world.
Lisa Miles
Sanctuary
2023, Hand-beaten Japanese Kozo, Indigo, 24"x 18"
Artist Bio — Lisa Miles is a papermaker, book artist, and educator, who creates one-of-a-kind beaten bark paperworks. Originally from New England, Miles is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book, a BFA in Graphic Design from the New England School of Art & Design, and an AA in Printmaking from the Santa Fe Community College. In 2018, she received a Fulbright Arts Research grant for her project, “Bark Paper, Plant Dyes, and the Book Arts in Indonesia.” Her work is held in public and private collections.
Al-Qawi Nanavati
Before Me
2023, Screenprint on Woven Kozo Paper Thread, 8"x 8"
Letters Within Letters
2023, Pulp Painting Screenprint and Watercolor on Kozo Paper
Artist Bio — Al-Qawi is an Artist and Educator from Mumbai, India. She is currently a Masters candidate at the University of Iowa in Printmaking (Iowa Arts Fellowship recipient). She completed her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017) and a Postgraduate Certification in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha, Mumbai (2022). She co-founded Young Art Support, a platform that exhibits and sells work of artists commission free and conducts a residency in Mumbai.
Pat Owens
Windstream Heron
2023, Cast pigmented cotton pulp, Flax tow, 16"x 20"x 2"
Spear Fishers
2022, Cast pigmented cotton pulp, 24"x 20"x 4.5"
Artist Bio — A graduate pf Avila College and the Kansas City Art Institute, Pat was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center in Millville, New Jersey. Pat also attended the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, where she studied paper making. Her current work reflects these multiple disciplines in the creation of handmade paper art.
Karmena Ozola
Butterfly Effect
2023, Cast paper, 15.7"x 23.615.7"x 2.7"
Serenity
2023, Cast paper, 11.8"x 15.7"x 2"
Artist Bio — Carmen Oak was born in Europe but now divides their time between Europe and the U.S. Carmen is a full-time artist who works in the areas of printmaking, papermaking, bookbinding, painting, and photography. They are passionate about learning new techniques and sharing knowledge through teaching. Carmen believes that art can change lives and is therefore setting up an art studio-gallery-learning center which will welcome artists, art enthusiasts, and anyone who wants to learn and create.
Beca Piascik
Be Water
2023, Handmade Paper, Embedded Mirror, 9.5"x 21"
Warm Enough on My Own
2023, Handmade Paper, Embedded Mirror, 13"x 1/2"x 17"
Artist Bio — Beca Piascik is a young artist on a journey exploring the limitless potential to create through hand papermaking. She concentrates her energies developing new techniques to create works of art far afield of familiar “paper products.” Her evolving body of work may be viewed generally as sculptural, although much of it reaches beyond sculpture’s normal boundaries. Beca earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA (SMFA@Tufts) in May 2020. Beca lives in Southern California, and her practice is growing in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara Counties.
Jill Powers
Turbulence
2023, Kozo fiber, Mushroom inks: Pisolithis, Coprinopsis atramentaria, 25"x 29"x 2.5"
Changing Course - Swollen Rivers
2023, Pounded flax, walnut dye, 96"x 38"
Artist Bio — Jill Powers' art explores the aesthetics and science of biological forms within the context of ecological issues. She creates sculptural and installation art with papermaking processes. Her primary material is Kozo fiber. Jill uses traditional papermaking methods for preparing the bark fiber and then applies innovative techniques for beating, opening, and casting the fiber. Jill shows her work internationally and teaches about art and contemplative practices.
Working extensively with kozo for over twenty years has become an obsession with Jill, as she continually expands her use of non-traditional techniques, and pushes the range of what can be done with Kozo.
Janelly Santos
A Unraveling Encounter
2023, Graphite, colored pencils, and fibers include cotton, hemp, kozo, and jute, 44"x 41"
Ocean
2023, Handmade paper, color pencils, 24"x 30"
Artist Bio — I primarily work by making my own paper and infusing it with my drawings that are geared toward a world filled with strange occurrences: natural phenomenology, disasters, and mysticism. I also work with different printmaking mediums and have an interest in metal.
Ann Silverman
Trying to Breathe: for George Floyd.
2022, Handmade paper and red dye, 12"x 16"
Words
2023, Handmade paper, cut paper, beeswax, wood, 12"x 24"
Artist Bio — Ann Silverman's journey into papermaking began with one simple class. She has pursued the art with workshop intensives at Carriage House Paper, Penland, Women's Studio Workshop, a dedicated papermaking tour in Myanmar, and a semester at University of Iowa's Center for the Book. She completed an MFA at The Ohio State University and now continues to work in her papermaking studio in the woods of North Carolina.
Lori Spencer
POOF GONE
2023, Handmade paper and screen print, 22"x 14"
Witness
2023, Handmade paper and screen print, 14"x 11"
Artist Bio — Spencer is interested in production/reproduction and interpretation/reinterpretation as a method of image making. Her mark making tools vary—from the haptic to the mechanical, to the digital, to the textual. Solo exhibitions include In Response: Works on Paper, North River Gallery, Chatham NY; The Meandering, The Word and Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center; Vignettes and Silhouettes, the Lewis Art Gallery, and Millsaps College. Spencer's work is in collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Walker Art Center and The Library of Congress. She is the director of the MFA program in Book Arts + Printmaking at UArts.
Peter Thomas
Almost Paper
1997, Artists book, handmade paper, ink, wood, 2 3/4 tall x 2 1/8 wide x 3/8 thick
Artist Bio — Peter Thomas is a book artist, and a hand papermaker with a special interest in production papermaking. He has been making fine press and artist books in collaboration with his wife Donna Thomas since 1977. All of the books they make us their own handmade paper, and some of their books relating to papermaking include Beater Time Tests (1987), A Collection of Paper Samples from Hand Paper Mills in the United States of America (1993), Paper from Plants (1997), The History of Papermaking in the Philippines (2005), Tuckenhay Mill: People and Paper (2016), and Paper Samples (2022).
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