Call for Submissions: Wax and the Artist Book

Our Friend Catherine Nash sent along the following Call for Submissions:

Deadline March 1, 2010

WAX & the ARTIST BOOK  lecture:

International call to book artists who incorporate wax/encaustic with innovative techniques and as a major component within their bookworks. Selected images will be presented in a lecture format by Catherine Nash, M.F.A. at the June, 2010 Fourth Annual Conference of Encaustic Painting at Montserrat College of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts and published in a downloadable e-format on papermakingresources.com. 

Images : no less than 2 different works, no more than 5, (one detail per artwork OK)

Format : accepted in jpeg format, ~5" X 7" in size and at no less than 300dpi.

Deadline - CDs accepted (no email submissions) : postmarked by March 1, 2010.

Other Information Needed - sent on the CD as a pdf only...please note word maximums:

* Name

* work descriptions to correspond to entered images

* 85 word bio

* 150 word artist statement

* Postal mailing address

* Telephone number

* Email address required

* web site if possible

Incomplete Entries will not be considered.

Acceptance Notification : sent by email ~ April 1, 2010

Send by Post to : C. Nash, 1102 West Huron St., Tucson, AZ 85745 (USA) (no email entries accepted)

CDs will not be returned.

Download an e-publication of the Wax and the Artist Book 2009 artists: go to the articles page of www.papermakingresources.com and scroll to the Artists Books sections.

Learn about the upcoming Fourth Annual Conference of Encaustic Painting at Montserrat College of Art, in Beverly, MA, USA 

Hanji Papermaking Videos from Aimee Lee

Aimee Lee sends along the following about her adventures with hanji papermaking. The videos are awesome!

The entire process of making hanji as taped in the south of Korea at the paper mill of master hanji maker Shin Hyun Seh.

Making bamboo screens for hanji production: Yoo Bae Gun is the only screen maker left in Korea.

Four different hanji makers using the traditional webal technique for sheet formation (a single screen on a mould with no additional frame or deckle on top).

My own journey apprenticing at a family-operated hanji mill.

Additionally, I found a short video about a paper mill in Jeonju that I had visited twice in Korea. They use a half-mechanized sheet formation technique that is related to the Japanese style of sheet formation, but the information in the video is still relevant.

As an aside, my trip to Miami during Art Basel to promote my hanji exhibit was a great success, and we got lots of good press, including this article. The gallery even managed to sell the biggest piece in the show (no easy task).

Helen Hiebert's Mother Tree Project

Our Friend Helen Hiebert's always got something in the works, and now is no exception. Rather than try to boil it all down, I'll encourage you to go here to see what this is all about: