Create your own 6"x6" paper sculpture landscape. In this workshop you will use a craft knife with #11 blades to cut out the provided paper pattern, then shape and glue the pieces together to create your sculpture. Artist Tiffany Budzisz will walk you through all the steps to cut out, sculpt, and assemble your landscape. No drawing skills are necessary!
GAP member Marcia Jeglum's papercuttings are featured in this Portland annual exhibit. The Day of the Dead Show at the Gallery is Portland's interpretation of the popular Mexican Day of the Dead celebration of life and remembrance of those who passed.
Our Netherlands GAP member Maja Houtman sent this event in!On September 30 the exhibition “De natuur geknipt”/”Nature in papercut” in the Flower Art Museum in Aalsmeer opened. The curator of the museum personally asked all 23 papercutters to think bigger and differently than they normally do, and this resulted in an exceptional exhibition. Papercuts hung...
The October Instagram challenge for papercut artists!
List of daily themes once again courtesy of GAP member Eva Ryan, who began the challenge five years ago on Instagram, and hasn't looked back!
This is the fourth venue to exhibit this show about the impacts of the climate crisis. Although this exhibition focuses on issues in the Pacific Northwest, the information and dialogue pertain to regions across the country that recognize the ever-evolving challenges to our communities.
Using traditional media of cut paper, painting and drawings, both artists create work that celebrates the social and environmental complexity of this landscape while questioning its survivability as climate change inevitably and perhaps irrevocably alters the world around us.
Create papercuts from three different traditions: Polish, Jewish, and Mexican, with GAP Member and Former GAP President Mindy Shapiro.
Anarchy, war, and disease have become our nation's daily concerns and only news. Even if we do not face these situations directly, in our social and economic lives, we witness the prevalence of chaos in various forms. With such sudden, surprising, and sometimes unexpected changes in our lifestyles today, Sustainability in Chaos is a show of resistance. Through the historical endurance of paper and its various papermaking artforms, the 30 featured artists issue an invitation to a quiet and peaceful moment that evokes a pleasurable experience that conveys freedom from chaos.
Papercutting is an ancient art dating back to the creation of paper during the 1st century in China. In this course, we will create papercut decorations for the fall considering the wide range of fall holiday traditions- including Halloween and Día de Los Muertos- that incorporate cut paper to play with shadow and light.
CHINA Entry is free. The 2023 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale is organized by Paper+ Studio and Shanghai Fengxian Museum, and jointly hosted by the Shanghai Fengxian District Culture and Tourism Bureau. During the exhibition, paper artists from all over the world will be invited to present their paper works at the exhibition. Alongside this,...
In this relaxing, creative, meditative and quite fun workshop by Mindy Shapiro, you will learn 4-6 basic Zentangle patterns. Each structured pattern will be broken down into small steps and what results are beautiful, creative and unique images; you will then transfer the design onto another piece
of paper and learn how to translate those tangles into a papercut design.
It's a frame up! Zoom in with Guild of American Papercutters as we discuss creative ways to display our paper cuts. From deep shadowboxes to magical float frames to no frame at all....bring your most out-of-the-box ideas to share with the group. Wendy Bale is this month's host and she promises to award bragging rights to the most original display. Show us your latest projects, work on a cutting and enjoy the conversation with paper enthusiasts the world over. Crafty Hour is a monthly gathering FREE to Guild of American Papercutters members.
Eddie will teach you how to make transformative, slowly expanding and metamorphosing paper folding and cutting patterns that you can use to tell your own (or an already favorite) story, for an audience large or small, of adults or children. Attendees will learn various paper folding techniques, and how to make and tell a paper magic story.
