Alphabet In Movement – Helen Hiebert Studio


The Sunday Paper #529

October 27, 2024

This can be outdated information to a few of you, however I wished to ensure weblog readers are within the loop (I additionally ship a month-to-month e-newsletter, which went out final Thursday). In my keynote tackle on the North American Hand Papermaking convention final week, I talked about taking dangers. I’ve come to appreciate that nearly each time I take a danger, I uncover alternatives I may by no means have imagined.

I contacted the Mabel Dodge Luhan Home earlier this week – I used to be reminded of this retreat middle in Taos, New Mexico on the papermaking convention – to see if they may have any openings in 2026. They wrote proper again, saying they’ve a gap for July 2025. At first, I believed that was method too quickly for me to arrange, however then I made a decision I ought to contemplate it, as a result of one other alternative like this won’t come up for awhile.

I requested for assist in turning the danger into actuality (I’ve to pay a deposit to safe the location in 2 weeks) and was delighted by the preliminary response (due to those that expressed curiosity). Please fill out this brief survey  (by November 1st) if you’re within the retreat.

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Journey to Italy with E book Arts in Venice June 16-27, 2025 to go to conventional e-book arts and letterpress studios. Work on the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, one of many largest typography museums in Europe, situated within the foothills of the Dolomite Mountains. Go to historic websites together with St. Mark’s Sq., the Accademia Galleries, and the Peggy Guggenheim Assortment. Discover the sweetness, artwork, and tradition of the area in a small group with a seasoned, Italian-speaking journey information, KBAC Govt Director, Jeff Abshear. 100% of earlier E book Arts in Venice contributors stated they’d suggest this journey. Maybe that is your 12 months to affix us in Italy! That is what previous contributors are saying:

  • “Venice lives in my creativeness each single day and I’m so grateful that I ever took this journey.”
  • “The entire expertise of ‘every day residing’ in Venice was completely nice.”

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Nancy Jacobi on Paper Speak. She is the founding father of The Japanese Paper Place in Toronto, a enterprise which she started 40 + years in the past after her discovery of paper’s potential whereas educating English in Japan. By supplying washi worldwide, providing workshops, lectures and exhibitions, the corporate continues its mission to encourage creativity by highlighting the potential of this too little-understood, highly effective however endangered useful resource.

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I’m sorry that I realized about this set up (and fundraiser) by Mona Huneidi after it ended (simply final week). It’s such a robust piece – I feel will probably be exhibited once more. I encourage you to click on via and skim the artist’s assertion.

Mona Huneidi, Focused: 100+ Kites, 2024, the artist in entrance of the set up at Efficiency Works Northwest, Portland, Oregon (Picture credit score: Tim Sugden)

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Kelli Anderson’s Alphabet in Movement: How Letters Get Their Form pop-up e-book launched this week on Kickstarter. Click on via to observe the aMaZiNg prototype in motion, after which be part of me in backing her mission!

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Paper Tidbits

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About Our Sponsor: The Kalamazoo E book Arts Heart (KBAC) is a nonprofit group in Kalamazoo, MI, that practices, teaches, and promotes the collaborative arts of the e-book together with hand papermaking, printmaking, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artistic writing.

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