Paper

The library received generous donations at the ACC show in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. The acquisitions include many beautiful exhibition catalogs, artist postcards, and books on woodcarving and paper. There are hours and hours of enjoyable browsing in our new additions!

The Awards of Excellence Walking Tour is - hands down - my favorite part of every ACC Show. Everyone gathers at the Council booth, and off we go to surprise the winning artists. This year's San Francisco jurors were Mike Holmes, co-owner of Velvet da Vinci, and Ted Cohen, an exhibition designer who works with institutions such as the Museum of Craft and Design and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. It was a supreme treat to listen to these veterans of the studio craft world as they bestowed four awards of excellence.

Here's what they had to say:

A series of fun-loving images from the exhibition Made With Paper...

Remember making paper snowflakes as a kid? Take that process, add a pinch of geometry, a dollop of scientific method and a heaping spoonful of talent and you get these incredible paper creations by artist/scientist/engineer Matthew Shlian. Some are delicately cut patterns in paper; others are intricately folded sculptural objects. I'm fascinated by the way Shlian's identities as artist and scientist come through in his artworks: his work is "experimental" in that it springs from curiosity rather than a vision of a final product.