We love the new Japanese Papers!

The new designs are exquisite!

We love our new Japanese Papers! The designs are exquisite!!

 Here are a couple of photos where we used it on books as well and as envelope liners.

Pulp Fiction--Fuller Craft Museum

The Pulp Function show at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton Massachusetts has gotten great reviews, including one in the current issue of American Craft magazine. The show is ending on January 6, 2008 so if you are in the MA area, get out and see it.

I just ordered the exhibition catalogue because there are tons of really good artists in the show and I want to do a more comprehensive post down the road. A couple of people I went to grad school with are in the show--my super talented professor friend, Kerri Cushman and fellow artist Aimee Lee--congrats to both of you! Aimee Lee's piece is pictured in the American Craft photo spread. It's the paper brick wall on the far left. Go Aimee!

I was finishing the grad program the year Aimee was starting so I didn't get to know her well but I'll tell you the work that I've see this gal produce has been amazing! She is one hard working artist. I loved reading her documentation when she was building the brick piece for her thesis performance. I'm contacting her for a more indepth post about her work. So stay tuned!

Obsessed with paper dresses and paper sculpture

I think I was a fashion designer in a previous life because goodness knows I cannot sew anything wearable in this current life! The only show on TV that I have to watch is Project Runway--maybe that would change if they would have a paper reality show ;). Fabric and paper are so similar--textures, colors & patterns.

Once I saw all the buzz about those paper dresses, I thought about the class paper sculpture class Bett York taught at the beginning of the month. The way cool thing about Bett's class was that she had everyone bring in photos or drawings of what they wanted to make into paper sculptures--and she showed them how to turn the concepts into reality! Here are some photos from her class. Can't you just see some of these pieces evolving into the most amazing paper sculptures and paper dresses? Yes, Yes, Yes!! (Somewhere down the road, I'll do more extensive posts on paper clothing--I've collected a bunch o' stuff on that and need to dig it all out!)

I love these organic shapes!

Bett and some of the paper cutting proteges in action!

The Making of the Paper Fashions--paper fashion show--jum nakao - ar de paris - part 1

A clip from Jum Nakao's video...a nice little segment that shows the sketching, hand-cutting of the paper, taping (a lot of tape) and the making of the garments. It looks like they were all hand-cut & scored. Oh my!