Paper Limericks – Helen Hiebert Studio

The Sunday Paper #501

March 24, 2024

Thanks for all your feedback about publish #500 final week! I really like this paper group – get pleasure from these limericks from Chuck Crockford,  a reader and supporter of this weblog, in addition to a member of The Paper 12 months. He wrote the limerick on the left for concern #100 and the one on the precise simply final week. Thanks, Chuck!

As I discussed final week, in celebration of 500 Sunday Paper weblog posts, I’m doing a GIVEAWAY – 5 fortunate winners will obtain a replica of my e book, The Artwork of Papercraft. Enter to win by telling me one factor you want most about The Sunday Paper. The deadline is 3/29/24 and winners will probably be introduced subsequent Sunday.

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Be part of me this coming Friday for a one-hour FREE Zoom workshop at midday MST (Denver). In honor of the photo voltaic eclipse (which is able to happen on April eighth) we’ll be creating this Interactive Eclipse Card. Make the cardboard, after which spin the wheel of the volvelle (one of many oldest types of moveables) and illuminate the moon phases (and the eclipse) together with your cellphone or flashlight!

This workshop can even embrace a short presentation about my Paper 12 months membership program, which will probably be open for registration March twenty ninth – April tenth.

Join this one-hour workshop and invite your pals. 

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An immersive paper artwork set up by Veronica Hodges.

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A brand new brief movie referred to as “Gruff” options extraordinary paintings by filmmaker Julian Curi, who drew all of his characters and backgrounds by hand on paper, manipulated the drawings like puppets earlier than the digital camera, and used computer systems to erase the wires, giving his movie a uniquely intimate really feel. The movie facilities on the connection between its heroine, Hazel, and her emotionally distant father, Abuelo, a personality loosely primarily based on Curi’s personal father. Right here’s a short section on CBS Sunday Morning.

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I’m ending right this moment on a tragic word: paper good friend Sara Gilfert handed away on March fifteenth. I met Sara shortly after discovering papermaking within the early 1990’s, and noticed her over time at papermaking conferences. In 2002, Sara based Paper Circle in Nelsonville, Ohio, a non-profit arts group with the mission of the preservation, development and celebration of the paper and e book arts, the place her legacy lives on. Sara was lately inducted into the NAHP Corridor of Papermaking Champions.

Sara’s household is planning a memorial service for her birthday on June 1, 2024, they usually have a request. When you’ve got digital photographs of Sara, please ship them to her daughter, Susan Gilfert: sgilfert@gmail. They plan to create a presentation that includes photographs of Sara’s life. Godspeed, expensive Sara.

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The Way forward for Hand Papermaking – Can You Assist? 

Sara and I had been in contact by way of e-mail just some weeks in the past concerning the potential of a workers individual from Paper Circle coming to work in my studio. Each request that I obtain (and they’re coming extra ceaselessly) tugs at my coronary heart. Though I’m keen about the way forward for our craft, each intern I host requires planning and coordination previous to arrival; care and steering whereas they’re right here; and financing to cowl their bills to have the ability to spend time right here. Simply yesterday, I acquired this request from a school pupil:

“I’ve an inkling that papermaking might be my life’s ardour, and wish to acquire extra expertise.

Your internship could be a dream come true!”

Listed here are the questions that linger in my thoughts: Are there different studios that present paid internships (or assistantships)? Is there an establishment that would oversee a nationwide program? Are there people who might assist set up a fund to help paid internships? Right here is my present providing, and I’d love to listen to from you if you want to be a part of this dialog!

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Paper Tidbits

• Have you ever had an opportunity to take heed to my interview with Goran Konjevod on Paper Discuss?
• The Give attention to Guide Arts (FOBA) in-person convention is again June 26-30, 2024, at a brand new location: the Western Oregon College Campus in Monmouth Oregon. Workshops this yr function quite a lot of new to FOBA instructors, in addition to very long time favorites – protecting e book making, paper making, floor design, content material creation and printmaking methods – join earlier than they refill.
• Take a look at the paper weavings created by members on this yr’s Weave By way of Winter on-line class.