Cut Flower Papermaking : a hands on experience making paper from cut flower waste
Saturday, October 9, 2021
(Rain date Sunday Oct 10th)
10am - 3pm
$75 per participant
Very limited capacity! Tickets available here.
Make paper from cut flower stems and leaf waste!
In this one day workshop, learn how to harvest and process natural fibers for papermaking. Then, May will guide the group through the process to make a supply of textured handmade papers. You can even create unique artistic sheets by embedding natural materials from the farm.
We’ll take a walking tour through Flower Hill to explore different cut flower stem textures and gather petals and other plant material to embed in our final products.
About the teacher
May Babcock is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in hand papermaking and place, and involves turning plants into paper. Her artwork makes plants visible as living witnesses to our stories, since humans and nature are one and the same.
Based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, her practice intersects the fields of hand papermaking, contemporary craft, book arts, ecological art, gardening, public art, community building, sculpture, installation art, printmaking, and analog photography.
She has been the artist in residence at National Parks, National Forests, universities, and federally-designated wilderness areas. Babcock has received grants from city governments, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Barr Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. She is a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow. Interestingly, Babcock was awarded a Citizen Citation award for environmental education from the Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.
May Babcock is the founder of Paperslurry.com, a blog dedicated to sharing and expanding the art and craft of hand papermaking, and supporting its practitioners. In 2019, she prototyped a creative placemaking project, Pawtucket Paper Center, a community papermaking studio. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hand Papermaking, Inc..