GAP’s Annual Members exhibit for 2023 will be “Tales and Songs” at the beautiful Panama City Center for the Arts in Florida. Tales and Songs can be works with a narrative: be inspired by literature/poetry/song lyrics, or tell a story in your own way!

Panama City Center for the Arts, Panama City, Florida: March 3-April 1, 2023
EXTENDED submission deadline! December 9th
Jurors: Janelle Washington, Heather Clements, Dr. Kesia Blenn
Center for the Arts commission: 30%
Link to EntryThingy: https://www.entrythingy.com/d=papercutters.org

ROOTS and BLOSSOMS: An Exhibit of Eastern European Papercut Art

Graphic for Roots and Blossoms exhibition of Eastern European Papercut Art at the GAP National Museum

At the Guild of American Papercutters National Museum
Somerset, PA
November 5 through July 15, 2023
Mon – Thurs 11 – 6, Saturday 10 – 2

Come see this special exhibit at the Guild of American Papercutters National Museum, Somerset, Pennsylvania, featuring artists working in traditional and new Eastern European papercutting traditions of many kinds. Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, and more are represented. This exhibit consists of art that is in the style of or influenced by paper cutting traditions from the European countries of Poland and further east. From the colorful, stylized Wycinanki to cuts born from the Jewish Diaspora, Roots and Blossoms displays traditional, modern, and even fusion works of art from members of the Guild of American Papercutters. Come find out about the images and techniques of eastern European paper artists.

Free and Open to the Public

December Crafty Hour! Sunday Dec 11th

December Crafty Hour with Laurie

December 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Crafty Hours are free to all members, and hosted by our members, too! Laurie Moorhead and Tracey Escolme are our new Crafty Hour organizers. This month, Laurie will be showing some 3D work, and sharing tips – and everyone will have something to add as well. Come hang out, bring a beverage, some paper, and whatever you use to cut: Scissors, knife, sheep shears, scalpel, chainsaw, sickle…. We won’t judge! You do you. Also, this will be a good chance to work on your Winter Wings Exchange piece! You can find the Crafty Hour Link in your email box each month, as part of our regular member e-Blasts. Crafty Hours happen every 2nd Sunday, 11am PT / noon MT / 2pm ET / 7pm UK. Let’s get to know each other and get cutting!!

Autumn Paper Pathways

October Crafty Hour

It was so great to see folks at the October Crafty Hour on Wednesday, Oct 26– many chatted, not too much work was done (sometimes you need an autumn breather!), and several folks shared their past or ongoing art projects: Laurie Moorhead showed us a paper technique she’s been experimenting with, known as chine collé; Laurie also connected us with other paper and book artists doing interesting work, including the amazing Bhavna Mehta (http://www.bhavnamehta.com/) and Shanna Leino (https://www.shannaleino.com); Irena Boobyer, whose beautiful artwork can be seen on her website, joined us from the UK, and mentioned that she was actually able to visit Tracey Escolme’s recent exhibit, The Cutting Edge: Matisse and the Contemporary Paper Artists (in which one of Tracey’s fellow exhibitors was Matisse!)–not to mention that Tracey herself was in attendance, after a brief absence (we missed her!); Helene Cantor asked about Boston-area and Massachusetts GAP members (see list below!), and we all gazed with admiration on Roxanne Boyd’s autumn cut leaf art. Lucrezia Bieler gave us a sneak peek at her amazing new work, and also reminded us that Ernst Oppliger’s online shop offers traditional silhouette paper, among other treasures. Mention was made of Wendy Bale‘s upcoming, live leaf-embossing workshop on November 15, 7pm EDT, offered in conjunction with the Rock Paper folks (https://rockpaper.store). (Note: You can sign up for this workshop by purchasing the $16.95 materials kit on the website.) Hope to see even more members at the November Crafty Hour!

Just a reminder: Crafty Hours are free to all members, and hosted by our members, too! Come hang out, bring a beverage, some paper, and whatever you use to cut: Scissors, knife, sheep shears, scalpel, chainsaw, sickle…. We won’t judge! You do you. You can find the Crafty Hour Link in your email box each month, as part of our regular member e-Blasts. Let’s get to know each other and get cutting!!

Some Massachusetts GAP Members (with links):

Dena Bach (https://denabach.mystrikingly.com); Gerry McGaunn (IG: @gerrymcgaunn); Rebekah Davis (IG: @bekahnd); Kristen Davis (IG: @kristendavis124); Tamar Shadur (https://www.shadurarts.com/); Roxanne Boyd (https://www.roxanneboyd.com); Betsy Roper (https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsy-roper-b84b8b13); Laura Geryk (IG: @laurageryk, Etsy: https://florianpapercraft.etsy.com); Joanne Ingersoll in the Cape Cod area—our recent curator at Highfield Hall & Gardens: https://highfieldhallandgardens.org/about-us/staff/; Kathryn Meyers is also in the Cape Cod area: https://kathymeyers.webs.com/ – and check out the New England Book Artists: https://newenglandbookartists.org/ (thanks to Laurie for the tip!).

Seasonal Gallery

Making Fun, by Maja Houtman - hens in pearls; "These are called "Parelhoen", parel = pearl."

Aaron Silver - Black Lives Matter - on Tallit

Laurie Moorhead's Moroccan Geometric Pattern Layered Papercut Tile

Paper feathers from Wendy Bale's Feather Workshop in August

Luminaria by Melanie Kehoss

What I Let You See by Mariapaola McGurk, GAP member in Johannesburg, SA

Aaron Silver - Incomplete and Beautiful

Tracey Escolme - Tiger

Baptism

Making Fun, by Maja Houtman, GAP member in the Netherlands

Aaron Silver - Black Lives Matter (on tallit - Jewish prayer shawl)

One of Laurie Moorhead's Moroccan Geometric Pattern Layered Papercut Tiles

Wendy Bale's Feather Workshop

Randall's Colorful Crayon Background from his August Public Crafty Hour

Ex Libris Bookplate Exhibit at GAP National Museum

Sally R - by Mindy Shapiro

Reni Gower - Understory exhibit artwork

October Mirror Mapping Workshop with Gina

Workshop participants show off their mirror mappings in Gina Pisello’s October workshop

Happy September Luminaria Workshop Creators!

**Melanie Kehoss** led the September Workshop on Luminaria, papercut artwork for decorating votive candle holders; here’s a pic of some happy participants showing their creations

Ex Libris: GAP’s Traveling Exhibit of Papercut Bookplates

Last year, Guild members contributed their papercut artwork to an exhibit of bookplates at GAP’s National Museum in Somerset, PA, curated by Rebecca Raupach. And now, all of these beautiful member-created designs have been traveling through the country, hosted by GAP members and their communities. If you think your area could host a showing at a specific place you have in mind, please let us know: Write us at exhibitions@papercutters.org or president@papercutters.org

Online Resource: 2021 Ctrl+V(irtual) GAP Conference

Our virtual conference was a hit! Thanks to everyone who participated, in all ways! You can still access some of the fun at our Conference2021 website. Enjoy!

The Guild of American Papercutters is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The operation of the Guild is accomplished by volunteers and a very part time archivist and administrator at the Laurel Arts Center. For more information, email: gap@papercutters.org

Call for Members’ Art: Tales and Songs