Join us at The GREYSTONE Collective to learn the art of PaperMaking with with Chicago-based Artist | Maker | Educator, Aidan Anne Frierson. Handmade Paper serves as a vessel to physically create and communicate so many narrative possibilities using color, texture, size and pattern without ever directly transcribing with language. Handmade Papermaking is all about feeling and understanding the physical process. Everything during the process leading up to the fully formed sheet is what is so crucial to creating one single sheet. Paper is what is lived and what is felt. Handmade Paper is essentially a representation of a plant in new present form. We do this by re-representing fiber,breaking down plant fiber, creating new contexts from fiber and for fiber in the present.
This creative course aims to encourage you to actualize your ideas and experiences by physically creating through color choice, placement and variation of fiber. Handmade Paper is an inherently strong and lightweight material with an array of possibilities. Handmade Paper can be utilized to create 2-dimensional works using inclusions, pulp painting & drawing, layering, stenciling, printing, pattern, collaging and even can be used to create 3-dimensional sculptural art objects as well. Paper pulp is a magnificent malleable material that calls for time, patience, and understanding. Handmade Papermaking calls you to immerse yourself into, with and alongside water & plant fiber! The Workshop will include a visit to the Fiber & Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. All session attendance required , RSVP and complete registration at Venerate, Venerate! Workshop Registration.
Indelible ORIGINS | Place + People is supported by Hyde Park Art Center’s Artists Run Chicago Fund as part of Art Design Chicago. Learn more about our public engagement four-part series at Indelible ORIGINS | Art Design Chicago.
