Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Support a Papermaking Farm

Women's Studio Workshop is competing for a $50K grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project and needs your participation to win. The funds will go to re-developing their ArtFarm for papermaking fibers on new land owned by WSW. Vote throughout December, and find out more about the project, at http://www.refresheverything.com/wswartfarm.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Can You Donate in December?

We appreciate your annual donations, large or small, to help us balance our budget by year's end. If you are able to donate $100 or more, we have a special limited-edition broadside for you. NOW, OBJECT is a poem written specifically for Hand Papermaking by Aaron Cohick, proprietor of NewLights Press, who is an independent publisher of experimental literature and artists’ books, and recently the new printer at The Press at Colorado College. Kyle Van Horn, letterpress printer and proprietor of The Baltimore Print Studio, created the design. The ornament for this broadside was designed by William Knipsche, a graduate student at Maryland Institute College of Art. The printer is Gail Deery, who printed the broadside at The Baltimore Print Studio. The paper, measuring 8.5" x 14" and trimmed for printing, was created and editioned by Beck Whitehead. It is all cotton, mostly cotton rag, and contains some cotton linter and recycled cotton fibers. The lightly pigmented paper base is pulp painted with blue and yellow. Get yours by making a $100 tax-deductible donation in December, on our site at www.handpapermaking.org or by mail: Box 1070, Beltsville, MD 20704. Thank you!