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Who We Are

Heather Clements, Larkspur-Beautiful Spirit, 18"x22"
Heather Clements, Larkspur-Beautiful Spirit, 18″x22″

The Guild was established for members “from all the countries of North America.” By its tenth anniversary, it had over 500 members, located in 48 states in the USA and in 16 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, as Dick and Sukey Harris wrote in the 11th volume, first number of First Cut (Winter 1998). Our members range from beginner to highly skilled amateur and professional full-time artists and teachers; we have members, too, who don’t cut but are papercutting enthusiasts, researchers, historians, and collectors. The Guild of American Papercutters exercises no artistic or business control over its members other than the encouragement of personal artistic growth and ethical business practices. Membership is welcomed — the Guild has no jury requirements and conducts no competitive art contests.

Arlene France papercut - children playing, holding hands in a circle
Children Playing by Arlene France, a GAP founder

In 1988, the Guild of American Papercutters (GAP) was founded at the Hershey Museum of American Life in Hershey, Pennsylvania. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to papercutting and paper work as an art form in all its historical and contemporary styles. In 2009, twenty-one years after its founding, members established the National Museum of the Guild of American Papercutters in affiliation with Laurel Arts at the home of the Phillip Dressler Center for the Arts in Somerset, Pennsylvania.  This is the first American museum devoted to papercutting as an art form. The museum has a permanent collection of papercuts as well as changing exhibitions. We welcome you to join our community! And if you have questions, please feel free to contact us.

GAP Logo - calligraphy "Guild of American Papercutters"
GAP Logo – read the story, get the stickers!

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Paper Pigeon Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIeY680CGA

What Can I Do on the Website?

Video tour the website with Liz Goss!

Projects with Paper

CLICK for How-tos for tunnel books, paper weaving, mobiles, paper airplanes, and more–and contributions by members Angela Mohr, Liz Goss, Richard Schuchman, Andrea R. Martin, Marie Hélène Grabman, et al.

A Word from our Museum Director

https://youtu.be/MDfcsR3A6s8

Kathryn Flocken’s Lord of the Rings Silhouette Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1pdVLcFb14

The GAP Logo Story

Read the story, get the stickers!

GAP Logo - calligraphy "Guild of American Papercutters"
GAP Logo – designed by Blanche Turner with calligraphy by Karen Shain Schloss

A Home for Paper Artists

Through its publications, traveling exhibits, papercutting conferences, workshops, and demonstrations, members of the Guild of American Papercutters (GAP) seek to spread and celebrate the art of cutting paper. Whether you actively design and cut in paper, or simply appreciate the finished works of papercutters, we invite you to join our community. Our worldwide membership embraces all styles, materials, cutting methods, and experience levels. However you work, whatever your style, you will find kindred artists in the Guild of American Papercutters.

Guild of American Papercutters
P.O. Box 384
214 S. Harrison Avenue
Somerset, PA 15501
USA
Email: GAP@papercutters.org

814.443.2433

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Volha Baburyna: Belorusian Papercutting of the UN Declaration of Human Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8LcY-kCTBM

Wendy Bale: Spring Bird Cut Paper Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSn7DpaA0To
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