Sonja Rossow will be here for another 2 weeks working in the Paper and Book Arts Department as an intern. She is a graduate student in the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama. She has been printing cards for School by the River Press and working with students in both studios. She plans to come back next March to teach a three day letterpress class.

Lauren Faulkenberry, another friend and student from Alabama is here in town with a program for high school students at Trinity University. Her creative writing students will be in the studios here on June 28 to make some paper and print a book mark on the letterpress. They will hang out on our grounds and do some writing in the afternoon.

Cynthia Marsh from Clarksville, TN is back working in the paper and book studios. This is her third trip to San Antonio. After coming several years ago to teach a collaborative class presented by the SSAC and Gemini Ink, she returned in June of 2008 to study with me in the paper studio. This trip, I am helping her problem solve a book project so she is again working in both paper and book.

Personally, I have been working on several projects including a couple for Hand Papermaking Magazine. One is an article about the pulp painting symposium that took place here last January. That will be in the Winter 2011 issue. The second project is a sample book that is coming out this fall in an edition of 1000.

Hand Papermaking celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2011 with a special publication featuring paper samples from 25 renowned papermakers: Amanda Degener, Kathryn and Howard Clark, Richard Flavin, Helmut Becker, Anne Vilsboll, Susan Gosin, Margaret Sahlstrand, Asao Shimura, Neil Bonham, Margaret Prentice, Katie Macgregor and Bernie Vinzani, Beck Whitehead, Tim Barrett, Mark Lander, Peter Thomas, Karen Stahlecker, Beverly Sky, Tom Leech, John Risseeuw, Elaine and Donna Koretsky, Helen Hiebert, Paul Denhoed, Helen Frederick, Roberto Mannino, and Steve Miller. This book of samples will be uniquely bound with a letterpress-printed cover commissioned from one of four distinguished mills. “Hand Papermaking 25” will be issued on October 1, 2010 at $65 per copy. An attractive pre-publication price of $50 is offered until September 30. Postage is $4 in North America and $9 overseas.

The new exhibition, Essentials, opening at the Guadalupe June 24, 6 – 9P  and curated by Anita Valencia includes eight artists who work in 8 different media. The artists include myself and Jane Dunnewold. More information on this can be found at:

http://guadalupeculturalarts.org/exhibitions/essentials.htm

In the Garden #10 pulp painting