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More Printmaking plus Papermaking in Portland.
As my feet touch the ground in Japan, and I try to adjust my internal clock to Tokyo time, I still am coming off a papermaking and printmaking high that started in Portland. No, it’s not because of any legal herbs or ink fumes, but the genuine love of both arts (and the city of…
Read MoreHanji Meets the World
Without a doubt Koreans are passionate about their kimchi and have successfully shown the rest of the world what they’re boasting about. After attending a hanji-Korean paper- symposium entitled ” A Thousand Years Old Hanji, Meets the World” , I have no doubt hanji too will soon be rolling off everyone’s tongue! Hanji is one…
Read MoreMeet Dan Wood, Artist of the Month- January 2014
He is an established letterpress printer in the Providence, RI, area, teaches letterpress at RISD, unique to say the least, and our Artist of the Month for January. We wouldn’t want to start 2014 off any other way. This has been a long time coming, as we have known Dan for many years. It’s worth the…
Read MoreArtist of the Month: Larry Welo
Fresh from our trip to the annual Southern Graphics Council print conference, joint-hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Peck School for the Arts and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, we were bubbling over with all the printmaking fervor . Here’s local blog-article about the conference. The icing on the cake was meeting our…
Read MoreHanji In The House!
You knew we now stock hanji at Paper Connection; right? For all those who can’t wait to try this handmade, mulberry paper from Korea, we are happy to provide hanji in a vast array of colors. We have been inspired and influenced by world renowned hanji artists, such as Ms. Jiyoung Chung , author of…
Read More1 Blog, 3 Novembers
2012 over!?! That was amazingly quick. I guess I do spend much of my time on the road and it is clear traveling or rather “not being home” speeds up time! To switch things up in my dual-life pattern, I spent the fall of 2012 in the East Coast of the US for a change. …
Read MorePaper Rock Stars
Have you ever considered yourself a superstar? A paper star, at least? I had the privilege of spending a week around the seasoned, paper legends as well as the new generation of paper stars at the Watermarks Conference, (the 2012 meetings for both Friends of Dard Hunter and IAPMA.) sponsored by and held at the Morgan…
Read MoreMeeting Jules; founder of Heron Pond Studio
Recently, upon attending (somewhat participating in) Jules’ talk and demo at the Providence Public Library, I knew right away I found my kind of teacher. Jules is a self-taught and confident artist. She’s someone who lays out the A’s, B’s, and C’s of printmaking with no pretenses; encouraging students to throw caution to the wind,-…
Read MoreIntroducing Allyson DuPont
Allyson is a local graphic and package designer who uses paper including our paper. We are always happy to see her smiling face. Below is Allyson’s use of our Lokta Brown Berry and Vine paper in the center note cube. A RISD grad with a BFA in Graphic Design, Allyson runs her own design business…
Read MoreTales From The Twin Cities, Part 1
I just came back from my first visit to Minneapolis/St. Paul, and participated in in the Surface Design Association Conference for the very first time. The conference normally takes place in Kansas City, but this year it was in Minneapolis within the University of Minnesota East Campus. Within the massive University of Minnesota campus there…
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