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"Everyday People and Queens," featuring works by Janelle Washington, currently at GAP's National Museum of Papercutting
[Crafty Hour] Reflections in Ice: Geometric Papercuts
December 14 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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When Janelle Washington, longtime GAP member and former Board member, explains her artwork to people who aren’t familiar with paper cutting as a fine art, she references snowflakes. “I remind them of cutting snowflake shapes out of paper when they were kids,” the artist notes. “Then I say, ‘Now think of something in a grander design. That’s all I’m doing.’ I spent maybe the first three years of my career teaching people about paper cutting who knew about it, but didn’t really think of it as a medium that could be considered a fine art.”
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Guild of American Papercutters
National Museum
Established in 2009-2010 in cooperation with Laurel Arts, the Museum is located at the Philip Dressler Center for the Arts, in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Housing over 200 carefully chosen and curated paper artworks, it is the first American museum devoted to the art of papercutting.







