Steve Pittelkow, visiting instructor from St. Paul held a ‘Cartonnage’ class this week. Cartonnage is a French term that covers, book binding, boxmaking and objets d’art. It is also the art of making elegant and functional household objects from bookboard and incredibly beautiful decorative paper. Here are examples of some very accomplished student work.

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Shannon “Papierschnitt” Brock has been the Art Director of Carriage House Paper since 1996. She holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Shannon has taught papermaking throughout the east coast. She maintains her paper mill and studio, Gaptoothed Studio, in Brooklyn, NY, and exhibits her pulp paintings and sculptural work nationally.  Her most recent endeavor is as a skater for the Gotham Girls roller derby.

Click to see workshops Shannon is teaching.

The April 17-18 weekend hand papermaking class had six participants who made pulp from several fibers: abaca (a banana family plant) and cotton linters. We also cut up cotton clothing to make cotton rag paper. The focus of the class was sheet formation. It was a great time on a warm spring weekend.

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Sunday April 25, 1 – 5 PM

Christopher's Garden, 2009

Participate in this global event and learn the basics about pinhole photography. Bring your own pinhole camera between 1-5 pm – or borrow one of ours – on Sunday April 25, World Pinhole Photography Day. No previous experience necessary. We’ll process your image (exposed on photo paper), scan and upload it to www.pinholeday.org – all for $5.

Lynette Miller, instructor and photographer, will be running the event again this year. The fee covers photo paper and chemicals. “Pinhole Photography is really fun for all ages.”

Gwen Diehn’s prints, drawings, and artists’ books have been exhibited widely and are in many collections, including The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.  She has taught various forms of art for many years.  She is the author of several Sterling/Lark books, including Simple Printmaking (2000), The Decorated Page (2002), The Decorated Journal (2005), and Real Life Journals, forthcoming in August, 2010.

In addition, Gwen team teaches the BookWorks series, “Buddy Up”, with her grandson, Jacob Diehn. Together they have been making paint from local clay pigments for nearly 3 years.

Click to see workshops Gwen is teaching.