Paper Talk
Paper Talk is an ongoing series of interviews by Helen Hiebert featuring artists and professionals who are working in the field of hand papermaking.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Jocelyn Chateauvert
Jocelyn Chateauvert is a paper artist in South Carolina who manipulates abaca and flax in astounding ways. She discovered hand papermaking while getting an MFA in metals and jewelry at the University…
00:46:34 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
Drew Matott
Drew Matott, like so many papermakers I talk to, stumbled upon the medium by chance, when he was at Buffalo State College, where he wanted to study film. He is the co-founder of Combat Paper and the …
01:20:00 |
Sat 13 Jul 2019
Papillon Papers
Vernon & Madeleine Weiring, a father-daughter team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently launched their company Papillon Papers. I fell in love with some of the gorgeous decorated papers I’ve see…
00:43:40 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
Sarah Horowitz
Sarah Horowitz is a printmaker based in Leavenworth, Washington, who also makes drawings and artist’s books. We talk about how her parents fostered her artistic interests by always providing her with…
01:00:55 |
Fri 31 May 2019
Nancy Cohen
Nancy Cohen is a New Jersey artist who was introduced to handmade paper during a residency program at Dieu Donne Papermill in New York City in the early 1990’s. She became entranced with paper as a m…
00:40:03 |
Thu 09 May 2019
Lynn Sures
Lynn Sures is a Maryland-based artist who works with handmade paper in a variety of ways. Lynn tells me how she first discovered that paper was made by hand while reading the book Papermaking by Dard…
00:50:51 |
Fri 19 Apr 2019
Peter Dahmen
Peter Dahmen is an artist and designer based in Dortmund, Germany. I discovered Peter’s work on the internet, which is how he has become well known in the field of pop-ups, and has connected with cli…
01:07:46 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Leigh Suggs
I met Leigh Suggs 10 years ago when she took a sculptural papermaking class with me at The Penland School in North Carolina. We talk about her upbringing with a mom who was an art professor, how she …
01:01:17 |
Sat 09 Mar 2019
Craig Anczelowitz
Craig Ancelowitz is an artist and designer affiliated with Awagami Papermill in Japan. I first met Craig over 25 years ago in New York City, when he was a paper buyer for Kate’s Paperie. We talk abou…
00:55:16 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Aimee Lee
Aimee got interested in paper when she took a class about artist’s books at Oberlin College. She went on to focus on papermaking at Columbia College Chicago where she got her masters degree. It was t…
01:02:21 |
Sat 26 Jan 2019
Arnold & Mabel Grummer
In this episode, I'm talking with Mabel Grummer, the wife of Arnold Grummer. Their daughter Kim Schiedermayer is with us too. We talked about Grummer’s career, which eventually led to the family busi…
00:45:41 |
Sat 05 Jan 2019
Rachel Hazell
Rachel Hazell divides her time between Edinborough and the isle of Iona in Scotland. We discuss how she teaches five or so workshops in cities around the world (Venice, Iona, Paris anyone)? These sou…
00:41:06 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Laurence Barker
Laurence Barker is an influencer in the field of Hand Papermaking. Born in 1930, Barker went to Principia College and got his MFA from Cranbrook, where he also ended up teaching from 1960 – 1970 and …
01:01:26 |
Wed 21 Nov 2018
Hedi Kyle & Ulla Warchol
In this episode, I talk with Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol about their new book called The Art of the Fold. We talk about Hedi’s childhood in postwar Germany, when she made paper dolls and paper chains,…
01:13:05 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
Paper For Water
Paper For Water is a non-profit organization that raises money to build wells around the world so that everyone will have access to clean water. Listen to Isabelle and Katherine describe how they sta…
00:46:42 |
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Melissa Jay Craig
Melissa Jay Craig is a Chicago artist. In this episode, she explains how her first artist’s residency coincided with having just learned about papermaking, and how instead of lugging 400 books to the…
00:40:36 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Matt Simpson
Matt Simpson is founder and CEO of Green Banana Paper in Micronesia. We talk about how Matt ended up on this remote island as a teacher, his desire to stay there and surf, and how he put two and two …
00:51:31 |
Sun 12 Aug 2018
Melissa Potter
Through her practice, which includes art making, writing, curating and teaching, Melissa Potter focuses on traditions that are endangered, underpaid and under-recognized due to industrialization, war…
00:36:35 |
Thu 19 Jul 2018
Tom Leech
In this episode, Tom Leech tells us about his early memory of the smell of paper, when his missionary aunt sent him toys from Japan wrapped in Japanese paper; his first experience with papermaking wh…
00:43:45 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Pat & Peter Gentenaar
Today I’m talking with husband and wife Pat Gentenaar Torley & Peter Gentenaar in the town of Delft in The Netherlands. Peter & Pat met in the late 60’s at the California College of Arts & Crafts (no…
00:52:41 |
Fri 18 May 2018
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