Alyssa Casey - Papermaking Workshops - Laminate Casting and Introduction to papermakingMore images of papermaking can be seen by clicking and scrolling down here and here

Papermaking Workshops - Laminate Casting and Introduction to papermaking

More images of papermaking can be seen by clicking and scrolling down here and here

Laminate Casting

Museu-Molí Paperer, Capellades, Spain. July 4 - 6, 2012

Using handmade abaca paper, participants cast objects of their choosing. This three day workshop involves, first, making the abaca paper by hand, whereby students learn the basics of sheet formation. On the second day, we discuss methods of casting and students use the sheets they had made the day before to cast their objects. Day three is spent removing the dry paper cast from the object and resolving the sculpture.

Rakel Gomez Vazquez hard at work Cast seashell by Claudia Fandiño Casanovas

Introduction to papermaking - (Please see series of photos below select descriptions)

"Paper Essentials - Papermaking with Garden Hosta"

MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

Focusing on a ubiquitous garden plant - Hosta -, this workshop taps into this humble green's hidden potential to become a vehicle for expression. In learning how to prepare the fiber and how to form and dry their own paper sheets, participants became agents of creation, adding to the "ongoing debate about art and change" and repurposing the "traditional white box space"*. This workshop was inspired by and performed within the context of the exhibition, A Lot of Possibilities, North Adams. Spearheaded by Anna Lise Jensen, A Lot of Possibilities is a project that aims to "place artists in the gardens"**, thereby transforming community gardens into cultural sites - effectively preventing their destruction by city officials.

*from curatorial essay by Valeria Federici
**from Anna Lise Jensen's artist statement

"Gathering Exhalations - Local Corn Husk Paper"

Art, Wine & Chocolate Fest, Trilogy at the Vineyards, Brentwood, CA

The long time home of my parents and grandparents, Brentwood, CA, once a small farming community, is now a burgeoning San Francisco suburb famous for its sweet corn and "you pick" farm sites. Gifted corn by their close family friends at the Maggiore ranch, my parents, John and Jody Casey, saved the husks from each cob they enjoyed throughout the summer. These same corn husks were transformed into sheets of paper by participants of the workshop. Special thanks to Barbie Koncher and Shea Homes Trilogy at the Vineyards.

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