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Celebrating the migration

Posted in Art, Birds, Handmade paper, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Artwork by JoAnn Pari-Mueller

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Happy Earth Day! Let’s make paper!

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, tagged , , , , , , on April 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Check out an updated edition of the classic Tin Can Papermaking! Recycled for Earth and Art.

This educational book is filled with full color photos, updated text, and a host of new projects including Treewhispers!

Learn how you can recycle wastepaper into beautiful new art, and you how you really can create excellent handmade paper with two tin cans!

Explore papermaking:

-Turn wastepaper into works of art at home or school

-Simple instructions with photos guarantee success

-Keep it eco-friendly with recycled paper cards and gifts to give all year

-Discover the science behind “what” paper is and “why” it can be recycled

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The Farmyard Tree

Posted in Handmade paper, Stories, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , on April 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Story by Suzanne Kilkus, Madison, WI

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Let the fun begin!

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Hive, Paper-making, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Book Arts in the Park

What a fun event at the Cook County Forest preserve!

In addition to exploring nature you can also try your hand at bookbinding, printmaking, collage, papermaking and even book exchanges and giveaways!

Take a hike in the woods and be sure to share your favorite story about a tree!

What is your tree story?

Did you climb trees with your friends to see who could climb the highest? Build a treehouse that was your refuge? Walk through a cool dense forest in the springtime or pluck a ruby red apple off a tree? Did you ever speculate on what kind of a tree we would be? Hmmmm. Oak? Birch? Maple?

On a hot summer evening, did you run to a tree for safe base when you played tag?

What’s your  tree story?

Just as the rings of a tree embody the stories of the tree, so too we carry the stories of trees. These stories inspire us to renew our sense of wonder. They connect us to one another through shared experiences as they deepen our understanding to our connection with nature.

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Sharing the Love of Trees in Community, cont’d (Pam)

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Sharing the Love of Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Pam Avery is an abstract painter and ceramist in Sacramento, CA. With an MA in Art Education from California State University Sacramento, she taught high school art for 21 years. 

She exhibits her art in the state fair, galleries, museums, colleges and hospitals, and has been featured on educational broadcasts. 

A dancer, Pam brings a sense of gesture and movement to her paintings. Each one creates a space and world of its own through colors, shapes and textures to excite the senses while remaining light and airy. 

Her round, with a monochrome tree on each side, embraces trees in the delicate drawings.  

Artwork by Pam Avery, Story by Phawnda Moore

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Observations in Nature

Posted in Amanda Love, Silos, Cadine Navarro, Art, Columbus, Ohio, Grange Insurance Audubon Center, Handmade paper, Installations, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2023| 2 Comments »

Three Exhibitions Continue…More Observations in Nature!

Three Exhibitions to Explore in One Place! The new exhibition “Tree Time + Silos” by artist Amanda Love presents a photographic documentation of the prehistoric and endangered species, The Metasequoia (or Dawn Redwoods) with a sneak peak at “Silos” an outdoor exhibition also inspired by the Dawn Redwoods coming this fall. “Treewhispers” displays a “forest” of handmade paper and artistic exploration honoring trees by Pamela Paulsrud and the late Marilyn Sward. “It Sounds Like Love” by artist Cadine Navarro creates a place of encounter with native Ohio prairie seeds.

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Treewhispers opens at The Grange Insurance Audubon Center, Columbus, Ohio

Posted in Art, Columbus, Ohio, Grange Insurance Audubon Center, Handmade paper, Installations, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Delighted and honored to share the opening of Treewhispers at The Grange Insurance Audubon Center in the Nature x 4 Exhibition this past Thursday night—on view through Feb 26th.

Gratitude to Sandy Presosky Libertini and Leigh Ann Galarus Miller for the invitation to the exhibition, their papermaking ventures, and assists —as well as to Melissa Vogley Woods and Amanda Love for assistance in aerial installation optics.

The Nature x 4 Exhibition also features the “2022 Audubon Photography Awards”, “Feathered Portraits” photography exhibition by Donna Winters, and sound/meditation “It Sounds Like Love” by Cadine Navarro. It’s a wonderful collection of nature! Don’t miss it!

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Christmas Baby

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Stories, tree stories, tagged , , , , , , on December 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Story and art by anonymous “Christmas Baby”

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PLANT TREES

Posted in Art, Calligraphy, Handmade paper, Kalamazoo Nature Center on December 23, 2022| 2 Comments »

Artwork and story from Pen Dragons and Kalamazoo Nature Center enthusiast

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She Stands for All

Posted in Handmade paper, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged , , , on December 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Story by Suzanne Kilkus, Madison, WI

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I bow before thee

Posted in Art, Calligraphy, Handmade paper, tagged , , on December 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Calligraphy and artwork by David Goldstein, Isreal

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Interim options

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Paper-making, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , on December 9, 2022| Leave a Comment »

The North Shore Country Day School students in Winnetka, IL had many options from which to choose for their Interim program. One possibility was a week long experience with teaching artist extraordinaire, Jamie Thome at the Evanston Art Center.

The students explored papermaking, experimented with different writing exercises, made several books structures, and played with relief printmaking. Many of these new and exciting techniques were incorporated in the final project on the last day.

Students had the opportunity to contribute story and art embellished handmade paper rounds to the Treewhispers collaboration. They also made tiny paper circles (and painted them) which were stitched together to hang in their school. Inspired by Treewhispers, of course. 

 

We would all enjoy hearing how others have collaborated in this ongoing art outreach. 

 

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Shared visions

Posted in Art, Evanston Library, Handmade paper, Paper-making, tagged , , , , , , on October 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I never cease to be amazed and delighted by the creative stories and art that are shared!

There were two trees.

They are friends.

They have a bird friend too.

Although they can talk to each other through their bird friend.

They cannot play or touch each other.

There was a road in between them.

Then they both grew up.

And one day they can touch each other’s leaves and branches.

They are happy now.

They brid friend sings a song for them.

SDG

I climbed a tree almost.

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Papermaking in the Reading Garden

Posted in Art, Artist Book House, Handmade paper, Paper-making, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Again beating the drum of gratitude for Artists Book House  sponsoring a papermaking event with the Evanston Arts Council Special Projects Grant initiated by community building activist Jamie Thome. Many thanks also to volunteers and papermaking enthusiasts, Laura Antolin and Cori Paulsrud who shared the an incredible autumn afternoon in the “Reading Garden” amongst the trees with all those who came to make paper and tell stories. It was a delight! Thank you, thank you!!!

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Let’s do it again!

Posted in Art, Artist Book House, Handmade paper, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , , , on October 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »

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Gratitude and Joy

Posted in Art, Artist Book House, Handmade paper, Paper-making, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , on October 18, 2022| 2 Comments »

It was such a joy to share the creative papermaking process with adults and children alike last Sunday. Parent’s taught children. Children taught parents. Onlookers eased in to join the fun. Stories were shared and trees were celebrated.

Many thanks to Artists Book House for sponsoring the event with the Evanston Arts Council Special Projects Grant. Additional confetti to celebrate community building activist Jamie Thome ; amazing artist, fiber and pulp provider Melissa Jay Craig; Evanston Library and librarian (now papermaker) Laura Antolin; volunteers extraordinaires Michael Swierz, Katie Kucera and ABH Intern Kerrigan; and to all who shared in the papermaking/tree storytelling event. It was beautiful!

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Join us tomorrow for papermaking!

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , on October 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »

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Weeping Willow

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged , , , , , on October 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Story and art by A. Kaunuda

Visiting the willow was my reason for joining my uncle and cousin on their spring/summer fishing trek to the Washington Park Lagoon.

Three blocks from our house was my grandmother’s flower garden where they dug up the worms for bait.

I packed a picnic lunch because they never ever caught any fish.

While they baited the hooks at the water’s edge I climbed into the welcoming embrace of the sturdy weeping willow branch that extend out over the surface of the lagoon. With my back against the trunk and my feet dangling over the branches just inches from the water’s surface, I sang and cloud surfed and danced my whispered dreams.  I skipped across the water with dragonflies, floated on the surface with willow leaves, inhaled spring and exhaled summer into the last autumn sunset.

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Papermaking workshop!

Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Paper-making, Treewhispers, tagged , , , on September 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »

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In flight

Posted in Handmade paper, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , on September 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Artwork by Luce Zolna

In anticipation and celebration of the upcoming 2023 exhibition at Audubon, I’m combing the archives to honor the commensalistic relationship of birds and trees.

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