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Book artist and papermaker Mandy Brannan helped participants to discover the creative possibilities of combining two papermaking techniques; traditional style Japanese papermaking and recycled papermaking. The masterclass began with hand-beating kozo fibres, which add both strength and delicacy to the work. The following stage was working with recycled pulps with found papers, finally creating experimental paper sheets by combining both kozo fibres and recycled pulp.
We spent a day at the Elephant Conservation Center where they taught us how to ride elephants, put on a parade and show, and showed us how they make paper from elephant dung.
"I work with paper because it's strong and fragile at the same time," says Artist-in-Residence Susan Shaw. Inspired by the legends surrounding the Hudson Valley, Susan experimented with the papermaking process to create approximately fifty pieces. Here, the art is not on the paper, the art is in the paper. Read more on our blog bit.ly/susan-shaw.