Hollander's

Hands in a Sea of Paper

September 2, 2009 at 6:00 am 1 comment

In 2008, Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts initiated a summer residency program for artists working in book arts and affiliated fields. Tom and Cindy Hollander invited the WSG Gallery of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to participate in their summer residency program of 2009 and many of the members of the gallery were able to take advantage of the opportunity.

Barbara Brown provides a synopsis of the residency:

In planning our residency during the 2009 summer season, WSG artists decided to work on several projects: Alvey Jones asked both visitors from the public as well as WSG artists and Hollander’s staff to make either a drawing, collage or paste paper art piece which he photographed, scanned and used for a limited spiral bound edition of 50 books titled “Hands in a Sea of Paper“. A special sewn binding was to be presented to Hollander’s.

Barbara Brown taught a board binding to the WSG artists and several people completed books which were placed on display at WSG Gallery. We used paste paper, mono prints, collages, and cyano prints for decorating the boards. Each artist also made a board to contribute to a book for Hollander’s. This also included a clamshell box.

Erin Hoffman, a printmaker, made collograph and intaglio prints of her own as well as teaching WSG artists several printmaking techniques and helping them to make print runs.

Barbara Brown taught paste paper techniques to several WSG artists and also had a table with supplies for visitors to use. This was one of the projects we offered to the public along with supplies to make collages.

We had a lot of visitors this summer, and we had a great time not only working with each other, something we have never had a chance to do before, but also with the public.

Many thanks to Tom and Cindy, and especially Ben Reynaert, who helped so much to organize it all, and the entire Hollander’s staff!

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