Friends to Convene at Arrowmont

October 18-24, 2010, the Friends of Dard Hunter, hand papermakers, will be at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tenn., for their Annual Meeting.

Workshops October 19 - 21

Randy Arnold - Tool Making

Shannon Brock - Pulp Painting

Jim Croft - Making Tools from Bone and Antler

Betsy Dollar - Pulp Spraying

Jon Hook - Sculptural Paper - Clay Moulds for Paper Casting

Yong-sook Kim - Using Hanji for Wearable Art

Susan Kristoferson - Itajime Dyeing and Light Prints for Your Handmade Paper

Amy C. LeePard - The Photographic Image Narrative

Catherine Nash - Explorations in Encaustic

David Reina - Maker a Beater from Available Materials

Peter Thomas - Making Miniature Books

Presentations October 21 - 23

Anita Lynn Forgash Keynote Speaker Jacques Brejoux:

Medieval Stampers: Construction and Use in Pulp Preparation for Hand Papermaking

Tim Barrett - Fifteenth Century European Papermaking Materials and Techniques

Chris Harrison - Schäffer and his Plant Papers

Kate Martinson - Roycroft: Then and Now. Dard Hunter was a Roycrofter

Scott K. Murphy - Papermaking as a Hub in a Liberal Arts Education

Catherine Nash - Beater Finesse: Tips for Paper Artists using the Hollander Beater

Beverly Plummer - Choice, Chance and Anarchy: Making Edible Paper with John Cage

Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson - Book Bombs: Handmade Paper in Public Spaces

Cynthia Thompson & David Charles Chioffi - The Perception of Labor: Papermaking in the University Setting

Demonstrations October 21 - 23

Randy Arnold - Building Bookbinding Equipment with Hand Woodworking Tools

Jim Croft - Old Ways Bookbinding and Papermaking Practices

Betsy Dollar - Paper Spraying Techniques

Judy Funk - Paper Casting Techniques

Lisa Hoesing - The Korean Art of Joomchi, or Paper Felting

John Hook - Paper Casting in Bisque Clay Moulds

Aimee Lee - Hanji and its Applications: Korean Papermaking, Paper Felting, and Paper Weaving

Catherine Nash - Encaustic for the Book and Paper Artists

Kelly Nelson & Kerri Cushman - Making Polymer Solarplates for a Relief or Intaglio Print Matrix

Kitz Rickert - Conservation Techniques (TBA)

Earle D Swope - Arborglyph Castings: Paper Pulp Castings from Silicone and Plaster Molds

Peter Thomas - Western Style Papermaking Vatman Techniques

For more information contact:

Shannon Brock, VP of Publicity and Outreach

e-mail:  gaptoothed@ earthlink.net

phone:  718.782.8987