This is the back side of Earth and Air. It is paste paper and "unpasted" paper.

It had to be covered up when we mounted it.

Sue Carrie Drummond's artist's book, A Darning Stitch, marries the craft of repair with an unraveling relationship.

I got tired of putting the 3 to 6 tare sheets from my Netflix movies into my recycle bin. So I decided to do recycle them myself!

The new pieces of paper will be 5 X 8 inches.

added kozo, mitsumata. additional PVA inadvertantly made it look less skinnish than originally but c'est la guerre, no?

A completed sheet of paper that just needs to be dried.

photos by Kara Smith

kodak portra 400

The rough edge on the paper comes from leaking between the Deckle and Mold when the pulp is pored.

I like it. It will dry and make the paper look handmade.

Residency Grant for Regional Artists program. She worked in our papermaking & ceramics studios.

photos by Kara Smith

The still-wet ink on the borders starts to travel into un-inked areas of the piece after being scrunched up and opened again.

During her residency, Andrea Chung experimented in the papermaking studio, teaching herself a new technique to tell the stories of Jamaican midwives. Read more on our blog: bit.ly/andrea-chung

went with the thick wire, in the end, cuz I'm lazy as fuck

Kate Martinson and Lee McDonald

Peter Thomas irons the handmade paper.

Masahiko Futami Photography

Then we added the color scraps left over from the papel picado decorations for Cinco de Mayo.

Each student selected his or her own color combinations. I instructed the students not to fully blend the color scraps so that the resulting sheet of paper would contain small pieces of colored paper.