Encourage & Create – Helen Hiebert Studio

The Sunday Paper #499

March 10, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Goran Konjevod on Paper Discuss. Konjevod grew up in Croatia, the place he studied arithmetic and pc science. After finishing his graduate research at Carnegie Mellon, he labored as professor of pc science at Arizona State College from 2000 till 2010, when he moved to California the place he’s now based mostly in Livermore. Konjevod began designing origami sculptures in 2005 after folding examples from books for a very long time. He has been attempting to develop new approaches to folding paper and different sheet supplies, utilizing largely quite simple folds (however plenty of them). His items rely not solely on geometry but additionally on the mechanical properties of paper, with the pleats producing stress and curving the paper into three-dimensional types.

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Weblog reader Jackie Bufton despatched me a duplicate of her beautiful (and free) e-zine known as Encourage & Create.  Every month-to-month subject contains: one thing concerning the place she lives, which is within the lovely English Riviera – Torquay in Devon; the Artful Nook, that includes some type of papercraft; printable paper(s) to make use of within the paper craft (designed by Bufton); hyperlinks to demonstrations; coloring pages; and a bit concerning the campaigns she is concerned in by the Girls’s Institute.

Have a look, and if you happen to like what you see, you’ll discover subscription (and donation) data on the final web page of the e-zine.

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Pulp & Bind brings collectively 18 artists working throughout Southern Appalachia who’re deeply engaged with the mediums of paper and guide as a type and an idea. The structural potential of paper, its emotive qualities and acquainted insinuations, and the alternately highly-refined and visibly handmade potentialities of the fabric are simply a number of the recurrent themes throughout this exhibition on the Blowing Rock Artwork & Historical past Museum (by June 2, 2024).

Leigh Suggs, Pacing the Races VI, handcut acrylic on Yupo, 40×30 in. (picture courtesy of the artist)

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Ed Hutchins, director and curator of the Structure of the Guide Assortment in Salem, NY, organizes a month-to-month postcard mailing that includes works from his assortment. The theme for 2024 is ‘Girls about Girls’, and the primary 3 months characteristic works from Alicia Bailey, Ione Foote, Elsie Sampson, and Katherine Ng.  An upcoming zoom presentation, hosted by the Guide Arts Guild of Vermont, will present a chance to search out out extra about these artists and their featured work.  Right here is the hyperlink to the zoom assembly, Sunday March 17, 5-6pm EST.

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Paper Tidbits

• The Minnesota Middle for Guide Arts has fellowship and internship alternatives. Deadline is tomorrow!
• The Crane Paper Museum, positioned within the rag room for the primary Crane paper mills closed within the spring 2022 when the corporate, which makes paper foreign money together with for the US, upgraded its safety operations. This summer time, the museum hopes to carry a number of pop-ups at places all through Berkshire County.