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 'New Altitudes' Showcase speaks to the connectivity and innovation of hand papermaking as an artistic medium. As we gain new altitudes, we are able to survey from above, glimpse the big picture, and see the threads which connect us: the environment, the blurry border between disciplines and media, and the ongoing pursuit of hand papermaking as human expression.

Location: University of Denver
Dates: September 1 - December 15, 2024

Samuel Aguirre

Paper Table Lamp

2024, Amate paper, muslin, corn starch, rattan, lighting assembly, 16 x 16 x 18"

Artist Bio — Samuel Aguirre is an artist, designer, researcher and collaborator based in Providence, RI. Samuel intentionally works with commercially available, bio-based materials to show what is possible, here and now, to directly address our dependence on oil. His process considers where materials come from, how they are sourced, where they go at end of life and how the entire lifecycle will impact the stakeholders (environment, economy, and community). Samuel’s approach to making is experimental and leverages a circular mindset to objectively show that our environmental hurdles are not a matter of resources but design ingenuity and industriousness.”

Rhiannon Alpers

CRYPTOTHELE SERIES

2023, Paper, lasercutting, monoprint,
12 x 19 x 1”

Lichen: Rambles in the Colorado Front Range

2024, Handmade paper, letterpress, lasercutting, boxmaking, sculptural objects, stone veneer, 7 x 10 x 4”

Artist Bio — Rhiannon Alpers, has an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Book Arts from UC Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies. She is a papermaker, letterpress printer, and book artist. She has exhibited internationally, and her edition and one-of-a-kind artist books are produced under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint. Gazelle and Goat is a letterpress and bookbinding studio located in Denver. Her limited edition and one-of-a-kind artist books are produced under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint, and more information about her work can be found at rhiannonalpers.com.

John Babcock

Mountain Trace

2024, Pigmented cast and laminated cotton and abaca, 20 x 21”

Veiled Viridian

2024, Pigmented cast and laminated cotton and abaca, 20 x 21"

Artist Bio — John Babcock works with paper in his mountainside studio south of San Francisco. He uses pigmented pulps to pour, paint, and sculpt large paintings and constructions. His work has been exhibited in major museums nationally and internationally, including the Louvre Museums in Paris, France, The National Gallery in Prague, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. He has developed unique techniques for building his large-format works and has shared these through lectures and workshops worldwide. Particular interest is the distinct personalities of specific papermaking fibers, and utilizes these characteristics in his work.

Karen Baldner

Denizens

2024, Handmade paper casts, size variable

All of Us

2022, Artist book, handmade paper,
9.5 x 15 x 0.5"

Artist Bio — Karen Baldner’s work is based in papermaking, drawing/printmaking, installations, experimental book structures and small editions of artist books. Her work has been supported by Fulbright and NEA grants as well as several state grants from Arkansas and Indiana, and is represented by Vamp &Tramp Booksellers. She shows extensively throughout the US and Europe and her work is in collections such as the Library of Congress, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, UCLA and Columbia University. She is on the faculty of Herron School of Art & Design, Indiana University Indianapolis, where she teaches Book Arts, Letterpress and Papermaking and directs the Book Arts program.

Christi Beckmann

Lichen

2024, Scraps of Arches paper, 10 x 10 x 3”

Artist Bio — Christi Beckmann is a Colorado artist who creates handmade paper, artist books and is attending college for printing. What she enjoys most about handmade paper is experimenting and being surprised by the end result. Christi enjoys sculpting with paper as well as including in her artist books.

Heike Berl

Imagine

2024, Ink drawing, gold embossing on handmade paper, edition of 780 unique pieces in series, 41 x 14 cm

Tree in the Clouds

2024, Ink drawing, gold embossing on handmade paper, oil color, pastel, ink brush pen, punching, 41 x 14 cm

Artist Bio — Heike Berl is a visual artist based in Dresden, Germany. She is passionate about drawings, pulp paintings, prints and art history. A graduate of the Anhalt University Dessau of Design and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Berl explores the idea of poetry and transience in life and nature in her work. In 2024, Heike Berl was selected as IAPMA Bulletin cover artist in collaboration with Papierwerk Glockenbach, Munich.

Jenna Bonistalli

Wall soft weave

2024, Raw & bleached abaca, cattail paper with mohair/silk thread; porcelain form with silk/linen thread, 7.5 x 4 x 1.5" each

Circular soft weave (tinies)

2023-24, Porcelain, raw & bleached abaca, cattail paper, silk, cotton, linen & wool thread, All together 7 x 6 x 1”

Artist Bio — Jenna Bonistalli creates works with dimensional materials – paper, clay, thread, light and sound. Her work explores attention, ecological interactions, and phenomena. She designs installations and environments using light and projection.

She earned a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School, an MSEd from Bank Street College of Education and an MFA in sculpture at the University of Iowa. She has been an artist-in-residence at Iowa Lakeside Lab and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Jenna currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is a Lecturer in Studio Arts at Loyola Marymount University.

Lian Brehm

Jacaranda Beckons

2024, Cast abaca, pigments, 10.5 x 10.5 x 5.5”

Cielo Eclipse

2024, Handcast abaca pulp, pigments,
18 x 18 x 4.5”

Artist Bio — Lian Brehm’s sculptures explore pushing the limits of paper, capturing the opposing qualities of translucency, light and shadow. Working in pigmented abaca, she wet casts/applies directly onto objects, often combining kami-ito. Lian’s work exhibited at the 2021 & 2024 Feasts on Paper, Fengxian Museum, Shanghai China, and ReBloom an International Paper Biennale in Bremen, Germany. She is the recipient of a 2017 Blanche E. Colman Award, a full fellowship in 2023 at the Vermont Studio Center and a month-long residency in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She holds a MFA from RISD and a BFA from College of Ceramics, Alfred.Lian Brehm’s sculptures explore pushing the limits of paper, capturing the opposing qualities of translucency, light and shadow. Working in pigmented abaca, she wet casts/applies directly onto objects, often combining kami-ito. Lian’s work exhibited at the 2021 & 2024 Feasts on Paper, Fengxian Museum, Shanghai China, and ReBloom an International Paper Biennale in Bremen, Germany. She is the recipient of a 2017 Blanche E. Colman Award, a full fellowship in 2023 at the Vermont Studio Center and a month-long residency in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She holds a MFA from RISD and a BFA from College of Ceramics, Alfred.

Colleen Couch

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.

Nite Flight 1: Ode to Aslipah

2023, Steel, handamde abaca, acrylic paint,
18 x 8 x 3.5"

Stephanie Damoff

Corona (with Marigold and Eucalyptus)

2023, Handmade paper, 18.5 x 9”

Weaving Order

2023, Handmade paper, 18.5 x 9”

Artist Bio — I am a passionate photographer who got seduced by the possibilities of papermaking. Papermaking opened a new world of expression to me and expanded my vocabulary to collage, artist books, sculpture. My influences are chance, the natural world, literature, and my Ph.D. in philosophy. I aim to balance rigor and playfulness, and to reuse all the scrap materials in my house.

Camille Davis

Served

2023, Paper (cotton, abaca, and onion and garlic skins), 13 x 9 x 1”

Artist Bio — Camille Davis is an English Literature PhD candidate at the University of Iowa and a contemporary papermaker. As an academic, Davis employs intersectional feminist and book historical lenses to investigate midcentury American poetic communities and the media that made them. As a handmade papermaker, Davis practices a blend of Western and East Asian techniques that are influenced by the Japanese Mono-ha and Gutai avant-garde schools. Currently, Davis is an assistant at the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry at the UIowa Special Collections. Previously, Davis worked at University of Pennsylvania’s special collections and the non-profit institution Rare Book School.

Shelly DeChantal

Artist Bio — For much of her artistic life Shelly DeChantal has reveled in the tactile nature of cloth. Creating hand-dyed silk wearables, fiber sculptures and wall art has consumed her energy for decades. Several years ago she added a different type of fiber to her repertoire, handmade paper. Shelly learned to make paper from a variety of plant materials which has become the foundation for her hand-stitched paper wall art and sculptural forms. Shelly is the founder of The Colorado Paper Collective and makes her home in the Denver area.

Endangered

2023, Handmade paper, handspun paper, silk, cotton floss, 20 x 9 x 1/3”

Amanda Degener

Wet

2024, Paper made by the artist: Pigmented abaca. Letterpress on pigmented abaca with inclusions, 18 x 24 x 1”

Whisper

2024, Paper made by the artist: Sunflower, Tiger Lilly, pigmented flax, marigold petals in cotton, and letterpress printing on purchased mulberry paper, 22 x 30 x 1”

Artist Bio — Amanda Degener, educates through writing, publishing, and traveling to teach and exhibit her work. At the invitation of Tsing’hua University in Beijing, Degener established a hand papermaking studio in the Book Design Department teaches there. At Minnesota Center for Book Arts Degener was first artist-in-residence (1984-1987) and first Artistic Director (1997-1998). Amanda Degener worked at Hand Papermaking, a magazine which she co-founded/co-published (1985-1992). She began Cave Paper casually in the 1980’s then officially co-ran it with Bridget O’Malley from (1994-2017). Degener was part of Cave Paper until 2020 when it changed ownership. Degener is making books under the name HMP Editions.

Susan Mackin Dolan

Eric’s Garden

2023, Cast paper woodblock with chine colle, 18 x 18 x 1”

Artist Bio — MFA in printmaking and papermaking at from Univ of CO, Boulder. In 1984 established the first papermaking studio in south Texas, at the Southwest School of Art. I’ve been an artist and educator for over 40 years and have taught and had artist residencies at many colleges, universities, and art centers including: University of Colorado, University of Oregon, Colorado Mountain College, West Texas State, Haystack Mountain School and Oxbow School of Art. My work is in many important collections.

Nancy Eastman

Desert Storm

2023, Western handmade paper, 25 x 17”

Desert Rain

2022, Western handmade paper, 26 x 17”

Artist Bio — Colorado State University BFA 2023 Residency at Firehouse Gallery Longmont CO Attended Iowa University Studio art to study Western and Asian papermaking. My art has been in many juried shows.

Scout Ery

lemon life

2024, Board, paper, 12.75 x 8.75”

Burden

2021, paper, cord, iron water, photos, drawing, printmaking, 4.6 x 12”

Artist Bio — Scout for is a visual artist and educator. She received a BFA in Photography from Ohio University, and later received a Masters of Art Education from the University of Central Florida. Her artwork is currently being showed at the Sharon Weiss Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. She resides in Athens, OH and has embraced the beauty of living, creating and thriving in Appalachia.

Harper Folsom

Safe Keeping

2024, Iowa-grown kozo, glass marbles, wooden base, 5 x 5 x 4”

Artist Bio — Harper (she/her) is a paper-based artist living and working in Iowa City. Her work utilizes book forms and papermaking techniques, and often focuses on themes of collecting, remembering, and preserving. She is an MFA candidate and Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa Center for the Book.

Some Thoughts about Ancient Egyptians and My Father

2023, Letterpress printed on cotton and recycled paper, 4.5 x 6.5”

Suzanne Glémot

Art Supplies, UPPERCASE Encyclopedia of Inspiration

2023, Unique binding from various handmade papers of a commercially produced volume, 6.5 x 1.5 x 8” (closed)

Artist Bio — Suzanne Glémot is an artist and bookbinder living in Iowa City, IA. She keeps a small bindery and works in Collections Care at the University of Iowa Libraries. Her creative work explores memory, language, and place through prints, design bindings, and boxes. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2020, alongside a degree in Library Science and Information Science.

Joyce Gold

Echoes of Paper

2024, Abaca, flax, cotton, wire, burn markings, and salt, 9.25 x 9 x 9”

Collage Refuge

2024, Abaca, copper wire mesh, rusty wire, slivers of songbook pages, 8 x 8 x 8”

Artist Bio — As an artist, making paper never fails to breathe an element of surprise, capturing a contained chaos that can spark interest. In ‘Collage Refuge’ I allowed rust from the wire nest to bleed through the paper. I added copper wire mesh dipped in abaca and slivers of songbook pages tucked within the piece. ‘Collage Refuge’ offers a sanctuary in chaotic beauty - a place of respite and reflection even among the chaos of rusted paper and tangled wires.

Lori Goodman

Ghosts #3

2023, Kozo bark, handmade kozo paper, 12 x 12 x 12”

Artist Bio — Lori Goodman has been involved in fiber art most of her life. Living in Northern California has been a major influence in her life and work. Lori and friend owned a fiber arts supply store where they sold supplies and taught weaving, spinning and dyeing until Lori's frustrations with the slow process of weaving led her to paper. Making paper was a perfect vehicle for her large-scale sculptures and installations. In 1990, She received her Masters degree in Sculpture. Since then, she has been able to realize her fantasy of filling rooms with fiber.

Donna Hall

A Small Tear in the Fabric, Hardly Noticeable

2024, Paper, wall hanging, 16 x 24 x 3”

Float

2023, Sculpture, paper on wood panel
14 x 11 x 6”

Artist Bio — Donna Hall is a North Carolina based paper artist. She has a background in art history and fine art photography, and extensive fiber art skills. Since 2020, she has developed her own structured program of study. Most recently, she completed an intensive program in hand paper-making with Mary Hark at the Penland School of Craft, advanced paper casting with Guy Lougashi, and a plant-based paper making study with Sylvia Turbiner . She shares a well-equipped paper-making studio with another local paper artist. Hall received a BA from Williams College and an MA from Duke University.

Melissa Harshman

Paper Pochoir XXXXVII

2024, Handmade paper, 14 x 11 x 1”

Paper Pochoir XXXVII

2024, Handmade paper, 14 x 11 x 1”

Artist Bio — Melissa Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. She has taught at UGA since 1993. She was awarded a University of Georgia Senior Faculty Research Grant in 2019 titled “Explorations in Papermaking”. Exhibitions include “When Print Meets Paper” and “Sustainability in Chaos: NAHP 2023 Juried Exhibition” both at the Robert C. Williams Papermaking Museum in Atlanta, GA, “Paper and Print: Mixing It Up”, a solo exhibition at PaperWorkers Local Gallery in Birmingham, AL, as well as “Print +: Sameness and Otherness in Contemporary Printmedia”, at MOCA Jacksonville in Jacksonville, FL.

Helen Hiebert

Grid: 1,222,233,244 12

2024, Artist-made abaca, nails, 19.5 x 24”

Artist Bio — Helen Hiebert is a Colorado artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films, artists’ books and works in paper using handmade paper as her primary medium. She is the author of the several how-to books about papermaking and papercrafts. Hiebert writes a weekly blog called The Sunday Paper, interviews papermakers and paper artists on her podcast Paper Talk, and holds an annual paper retreat and papermaking master classes in her Red Cliff studio.

Robin Jourdan

Fern (not Fern)

2023, Great Lakes Basin-grown Fern, Paper, 24 x 28 x 46”

Dream of Waves

2023, Handmade paper from Great Lakes' pulps,
72 x 48 x 45”

Artist Bio — Ideas and stories inspire her 2D and 3D handmade paper works, further developed with a connection to nature. Growing up in southeast Michigan, Robin’s childhood was threaded with the gritty, oil-slicked culture of heavy industry, automobiles, and a dynamic social structure. Hers is a continuous journey of questions, curiosity, and an unwavering sense of exploration.

Lauren Krukowski

Stack

2023, Monoprint with oil, acrylic, watercolor, and hand stitched thread on silk and self-made momigami-inspired paper (kozo fibers),
11 x 6.25”

Woven Screen (holding on)

2024, Monoprint with fiber reactive dyes and handwork on canvas with woven strips of self-made pigmented paper (50% recycled fibers, 50% cotton/abaca, pigments), woodcut, acrylic, and watercolor on cotton fabrics,
20.5 x 10.5”

Artist Bio — Lauren Krukowski is an abstract artist and papermaker drawn to color relationships evoking deep emotional responses, similar to the musical frisson she experiences from vocal harmonies. Responses that are deeply felt but difficult to describe with words. Her abstractions center on processing the environment surrounding her and finding awe in small moments and material inquiry. She stretches objects and ideas from her immediate surroundings beyond the familiar and expected through handmade paper and fabric collage. Moving fluidly through multiple artistic processes–such as printmaking, hand papermaking, and sewing–her artworks often undergo various iterations as they are repeatedly layered, cut, and sewn.

Yiran Li

Marshmallow Seat

2022, Handmade Kozo paper, Mahogany, zipper,
23 x 23 x 18”

Artist Bio — Yiran Li was born in Xi’an, China in 1994. She is a 2022 graduate of the University of Iowa, having earned a Master of Fine Art degree in 3D Design. Li prefers to work with sustainable materials, particularly wood, and is dedicated to incorporating elements of her Chinese heritage into furniture and product design. Her artistic vision is characterized by geometric precision and modern aesthetics. Currently, she is working on utilizing paper as a medium for functional design, continuing to captivate audiences with her innovative approach to artistry and sustainability.

Elizabeth Mackie

The River, #4

2023, Handmade abaca paper,
64 x 37 x 1.5”

Giving Pond

2024, Handmade abaca paper,
24 x 23 x 4”

Artist Bio — Elizabeth Mackie is an interdisciplinary artist working in handmade paper, sculpture, installations, photography, video, and sound. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the US and Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Bulgaria, England, Canada, Austria, Poland, Spain, Denmark, France, Italy, Republic of Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Chile and Brazil. Most recently, her work was selected for the International Biennial for Paper Fibre Art, EARTH SPEAK: Giving Voice to Paper, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Nantou, Taiwan; PAPER ALIVE! Paper Art International ; Pillnitz Palace, Dresden, Germany and FEASTS ON PAPER, 2023 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Shanghai Fengxian Museum, Shanghai.

Azin Majooni

Water Revivalist

2023, Handmade paper and screen printing, 23.5 x 96”

Artist Bio — Azin Majooni is an environmental and feminist artist, holds an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and an MA degree in Graphic Design, with a Ph.D. in Visual Communication, and has worked as a designer and instructor. Her practice examines paper as the natural and organic form and incorporates pulp painting and print to reflect its flowing patterns, and her research integrates technology with her tactile and sensory work to delve into water memories and symphonies.

Teddy Milder

in memorium I

2024, Poured pigmented pulp; embedded thread, 24 x 12 x 2”

a way outa here

2022, Handmade abaca paper with embedded thread drawing; hand-stitched with embroidery floss, 17 x 14”

Artist Bio — Teddy Milder is a multi-disciplinary artist. She returned to full-time art practice after a career as a nurse practitioner and public health researcher. Art studies include: photography & fine art digital printing at Berkeley City College; fiber sculpture at College of Marin, where she is an assistant instructor. Workshops attended include: paper making and sculpture. She attended two, paper-based artist residences in Mexico and one in Peru. Teddy served on the Surface Design Association Executive Board. She exhibits widely in the US and abroad, including three solo shows. Her work is published in exhibition catalogues and Surface Design Journal.

Jennifer Miller

What We Have Left (Seed) / Remnant Oak Savannah

2024, Iowa Kozo with Chiri, Book Cloth (Buckram), Mohawk, Pressure Print (Ink), Adhesive, 21 x 21 x 21”

What We Have Left (Leaf) / Remnant Oak Savannah

2024, Iowa Kozo with Chiri, Book Cloth (Buckram), Mohawk, Pressure Print (Ink), Adhesive, 21 x 21 x 21”

Artist Bio — Jennifer Miller is an artist, educator, and arts advocate currently living in Iowa City. Her artistic career started with clay and has expanded to include papermaking, printmaking, painting, drawing and book arts. Her work has been exhibited at The Morgan Conservatory, OH; University of St Catherine, MN; Northern Clay Center, MN; Northfield Arts Guild, MN; Northrup King Building, MN; and the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics, IA. In 2000, Miller earned her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Iowa, and she will complete a dual degree in 2025 with an MFA in Book Arts and an MA in SLIS.

Carmen Oak

Cycles

2024, Mixed media, 5.75 x 12.5”

Artist Bio — Carmen Oak is an international artist with ties to Europe and the United States. A holder of an LLM, an MA and an MFA degree. A full time artist who specializes in the areas of printmaking, papermaking, bookbinding, painting and photography. The founder and owner of Carmen Oak Art Studio-Gallery-Learning Center which welcomes artists, art enthusiasts and anyone who wants to learn, create, exhibit, collaborate and more. Regularly improves knowledge and skills at international printmaking, papermaking and bookbinding conferences. A firm believer that art can change lives. Loves nature in all its forms.

Jill Odegaard

Jill Powers

Hidden

2024, Mixed media, 23.6 x 11.8”

Artist Bio — Jill Odegaard is a Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Cedar Crest College in Allentown PA. She holds a BFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead MN and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN. She has shown her artwork extensively throughout the United States. Her work explores the tactile and ambient nature of design using fabric, handmade paper and other mixed media.

Susan Perry

Michelle Scarlett

Artist Bio — Susan Perry, born in Augsburg, Germany, lived in Bangkok, Thailand. Asian aesthetics are evident in the sculptural materials, including Thai and Japanese handmade paper and bamboo. She received BA in Art and English from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA, and MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach, CA. She has over thirty years of arts administration experience, including the executive director emeritus of the Southeastern Museums Conference. For twenty years, she was an instructor of art history and fine art at numerous universities. Solo and group exhibitions in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and California.

Artist Bio — Jill Powers is a paper and book artist, primarily working with hand cast and beaten bark fiber. Her work takes the form of sculpture, installation art, and book arts, to focus on environmental themes. Powers has an MEd/Fiber from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she taught at Naropa University for 20 years. Her work can be found in many private and public collections. She taught at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon, the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawai'i, the Denver Botanic Gardens, and the Museo de las Americas, Denver.

Bonnie Ferrill Roman

Naomi Salzman

Evolution: Yearning

2024, Handmade paper, polylactic acid, wool roving, thread, 27 x 17.5 x 7.5”

Artist Bio — Bonnie Ferrill Roman (BFA CU-Denver, MFA U of MN) is a Colorado mixed-media sculptor and installation artist working with cast & formed handmade paper, fibers, ceramics, and mixed media. Her work, reminiscent of natural environments, exhibits a contemporary aesthetic resonating with metaphoric underpinnings while evoking a visceral experience of wonder. She has exhibited since 1992 in local, regional, and national exhibitions, to acclaim. She taught Art & Design at several Colorado Universities for 19 years, and visual art for 2 years at a DPS K-8 School. In 2022, she began teaching Ceramics, Jewelry, Sculpture, and Fibers at St. Mary’s Academy High School.

Fungi Folklore

2024, Handmade paper, 24 x 1 x 24”

Artist Bio — Naomi Salzman born in 1956 is a painter and papermaker. She works from her studios in Denver Colorado. She is know for her large abstract paintings which are colorful and full of vibrant geometric forms. Currently she is working on a year long commitment of painting a small painting a day using watercolors for 365 days. Her work has been shown in many galleries over the last 50 years. She is a colorist, abstract artist and has been inspired by Wassily Kandinsky. Her work communicates through lines, shapes, gestural marks and colors.

Artist Bio — Michelle Scarlett is a Down East papermaker and printmaker. In 2004, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Degree at the University of Maine at Machias. In 2022, She returned to earned the Certificate in Book Arts. Michelle lives in Baileyville, Maine. Her family has lived in Washington County, Maine for generations and works reflect Maine history, the people, and land. In her current work, Michelle is exploring traditional and contemporary papermaking processes and how paper structures can create interplays with movement, color and texture. Michelle is interested in paper as both a structural and expressive medium.

Ann Silverman

Artist Bio — Silverman has pursued hand paper making beginning with a paper intensive at Carriage House Paper in 1994, and continuing with a tour of paper making in Myanmar and Thailand in 1998, and an independent study semester at University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2002. Her paper art has been exhibited in solo and juried shows nationally.

Lynn Sures

Artist Bio — Lynn Sures creates multi-media works examining the juncture of geology, physics and the origins of humans. She has been a SARF Fellow in Kenya and a US State Department American Artist Abroad in Sri Lanka. Sures has been an artist-in-residence Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Spain; and the Press at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM. Collections include US Dept. of State; US Library of Congress; Yale University; Schomburg Collection at NY Public Library; Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum; MCF, Fabriano, Italy; MAP, Bangalore, India; and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt. Sures is Professor Emerita, Corcoran College of Art & Design, DC.

Judi Tentor

Artist Bio — Is there another way to tell the global climate story so the world acts? This is the question I want to answer. Storytellers are incredibly important. People who use imagination — poets and artists — must get better at describing the problems, the real menace of what we are facing. We must shift culture. We must tell new stories, create new art, and learn to live differently to create a system that values the well-being of others and the Earth. My work centers on the environment and I work with multiple media, paper, stone ink, gouache, assemblage, and found objects.

Kristen Tordella-Williams

Moonscape I

2023, Stenciled and rusted iron on artist made denim and Alabama cotton papers, 4 x 3 x 3”

Artist Bio — Kristen Tordella-Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and arts educator based in the American South. Her practice explores the impact of labor on our lives, using materials such as iron casting and hand papermaking, to create works that represent layers of memory, materiality, and process. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at a villa in Berlin. Tordella-Williams has been an artist in residence at WNC Sculpture Park, the Ateliers im Alten Schlachthof, and the TIDES Institute & Museum of Art. She is the President of the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance and an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Auburn University in Alabama.

Kelsey Voy

Void

2023, Steel, artist made papers from old bedsheets, denim, iron, rust,
24 x 19 x 1.5” (closed)

The Patchwork Quilt

2023, Artist book, 7.5 x 8” (closed)

There Will Be Rest

2023, Artist book, 5.5 x 8” (closed)

Artist Bio — Kelsey Voy’s work with handmade paper is an extension of investigations with printed and dyed fabric, embroidery, and garment construction. Kelsey is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she studies letterpress, book arts and paper making. Kelsey earned her degree in Human Ecology with a major in Textile Design from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She pursues the meditative quality of craft and appreciates paper and cloth for their intricacies in carrying information.

Grieving after 2,000° Fahrenheit

2024, Handmade paper, letterpress, 12 x 12 x 24”

Smoke and Ash

2024, Pulp painting, letterpress, 11 x 21”

Ileret 2.4

2022, Embossed Artist-Made Abaca/Cotton paper painted with pigmented flax, 16 x .5 x 24”

Ileret 6.4

2022, Embossed Artist-Made Abaca/Cotton paper painted with pigmented flax, 16 x .5 x 24”

Geometry

2023, Paper and small rock, 18 x 18 x 1”

Firer Tree

2022, Handmade paper, thread, and paper thread, 33 x 14 x 1”