Bronwyn Castillo
South Dakota; SecretaryBronwyn Castillo lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with her husband, dog, two cats, and a flock of small doves. She has been an artist all her life, and started hand-carving wood plaques with her mother, displaying at art shows and marketing through Country Sampler Magazine. She has worked in watercolor, pen-and-ink, graphite, and color pencil drawings. She is also a recently retired RN. After discovering her new love of paper cutting, she is excited to be a part of GAP!
Debra A. Collins
CaliforniaDebra is a paper cut artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After 36 years of teaching a variety of public high school art courses, Debra is now a full-time artist. Her biggest accomplishment has been showing a paper cut in the De Young Museum in 2020. Surfing the internet to find other paper cutters, she stumbled upon the guild’s website, so full of useful information. Her interactions with guild members have been positive, jovial, and supportive. She knows she has found her tribe and wants to actively support the organization’s efforts. She is also a board member of the Diablo/Almeda branch of The National League of American Pen Women and the Sun Gallery of Hayward, CA.
Jason Koons
Pennsylvania; Treasurer (incoming)I am a paper cutter, illustrator and art educator. It is hard for me to believe, but through these various artistic ventures, I have been involved with the art making process for close to 20 years. All of my imagery is original, and all of my papercuts are hand drawn and hand cut. I find inspiration in pretty much everything – however, I currently find myself producing work that centers on geometry, nature, or pattern study. When I am not moonlighting as a paper cutter, I am working full time as a high school art teacher in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. I currently teach drawing and painting at both an introductory and intermediate level, and in the past, I have instructed at the Advanced Placement level. I love teaching and I am lucky to have had the opportunity to help many of my students develop, further, and achieve their artistic goals.
Lucrezia Bieler-Beerli
Florida; VP ExhibitsI’m a Swiss-born artist living in Florida. I studied for 6 years Art at the Hochschule der Künste in Zürich, Switzerland, and graduated with honors as Scientific Illustrator. I create cut-paper images using scissors. They pay tribute to the beauty of nature and its complexity. I work on two series for several years: women interacting with nature and endangered key species and their ecosystem. For the women-nature compositions, I use a style that reminds me of medieval millefleur tapestry or impressionist paintings. For the key species art pieces, I love to use the form of a mandala (Sanskrit: “circle”): an embodiment of the symbolic order of the universe. For each artwork, I use a single sheet of black paper and scissors to make complex cut images. The material and the production process reflect the delicacy and also fragility of nature. All things are interconnected and interwoven and have an impact on each other. My work discusses these interactions in nature: the internal flow of life. All beings have their place in complex ecosystems and are essential to keep nature healthy. I design my images so that they appear harmonious and balanced, like nature. My work is included in museum collections and shown nationally and internationally, and has received many awards. My work is represented by the Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA.
Randall Williams
Maryland; PresidentRandall Williams is a Maryland-based artist that focuses on creating layered, expressive images. He finds inspiration in nature, literature, and the arts. Randall has been crafting art out of cut paper for about six years. When asked, “Why cut paper?,” the usual response is, “Because I am a terrible painter.” Randall started as chair of the museum committee for GAP in 2020, before leading the Guild’s first strategic planning effort and becoming president in 2021. He creates art in the evenings and on weekends when allowed by his cats.
Sam Wróbel
Louisiana; VP Digital Communicationssam wróbel specializes in the Polish papercutting folk art of wycinanki. born and raised near chicago, illinois, sam learned to make wycinanki as a child from folk artist doris sikorsky. sam has Polish ancestry, and always enjoyed the vibrant colors, intricate designs, and connection to their culture that wycinanki offered. now living and working in rural sw louisiana, sam started sparrow papercraft in 2018 to share their wycinanki folk art with the world. their work is influenced by traditional polish motifs, social movements, their travels, and the colorful culture of south louisiana.
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