Smart Salon: Dieu Donné
Founded in 1976 by Susan Gosin and Bruce Wineberg to explore the untapped potential of hand papermaking as an art medium, Dieu Donné introduces artists from a wide variety of practices to the creative possibilities in hand papermaking, fostering experimentation and creating innovative works of art.
Join artists LaKela Brown and Abdolreza Aminlari, studio collaborator Katharine L. DeLamater, and strategic advisor to Dieu Donné John Shorb for a panel discussion about art in paper, co-creative practices, and their work in the Smart's permanent collection currently featured in Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories. The panel will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. Free and open to the public, register online.
Windows, Wells, and Walls: Stencils and Masking in Handmade Paper
In this all levels papermaking workshop, participants will learn how to make paper using a variety of fibers and incorporate stenciled imagery using hand-cut stencils and pigmented pulp paint. We’ll begin with the basics of sheet-forming and an overview of the stenciling process to create a roadmap for each participant’s work. Participants will work with the instructor to choose papermaking fibers and stenciling methods to best suit their envisioned artwork or sampler. Stenciling techniques will include brush application, bottle application, washes, as well as masking techniques to create layered effects in desired and protect others. This process will encourage participants to experiment and invoke creative problem solving to express their unique vision through the art of hand papermaking.
For more information and to register: please visit Women’s Studio Workshop
Topographic Language: Embedding and Collage in Handmade Paper
Layer textile, photographic, and other soft collage elements, concurrently building a narrative alongside the development of your handmade paper artwork! In this all levels papermaking workshop, participants will learn how to make paper with a focus on translucent abaca and flax fiber to best highlight their personal embedded and collaged elements. Techniques covered will include creating veils, double couching, bottle application of pulp, and creating shaped sheets. We’ll also cover techniques to work on both the recto and the verso (front and back) of wet sheets of handmade paper, a technique that can be used for artists books or other works one might desire to have information on both sides.
For more information and to register, please visit Women’s Studio Workshop.
Beyond the Substrate: Recent Collaborations
Beyond the Substrate: Recent Collaborations showcases a selection of handmade paper work from Dieu Donné’s collection created in collaboration by resident artists and by our team of exceptional studio collaborators. This exhibition opens in tandem with the upcoming Beyond the Substrate Seminar for Print Curators, made possible with generous support from Getty through the Paper Project Initiative.
Tacit Knowledge: Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View Foundation Fellowship Program
Tacit Knowledge celebrates seven years of Dieu Donné’s West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, an immersive studio mentorship for emerging papermakers to expand and enrich their artistic practices at Dieu Donné’s papermaking studios in Brooklyn, NY. Artists and papermakers Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin, Katharine L. DeLamater, Candy Alexandra González, Jaz Graf, Lauren Krukowski, SR Lejeune, and Anela Ming-Yue Oh each spent three to six months in the Dieu Donné papermaking studios, fully immersing themselves in the art of papermaking, supporting artists and projects coming through the studio, and learning to hone their techniques and develop their own practices. Their fellowships culminated in dedicated professional studio days for each artist to each create new bodies of artwork in handmade paper. Their resulting artworks pull from personal, social, and historical experience, and explore ritual, identity, heritage, and environment, mining both inherited and privatized forms of knowledge.