Papermaking Studio

with Andrea Peterson
PAPER 604 001 | 3 credits | $200 Lab Fee
June 9 - 22, 2024

Paper as an art medium is exciting and elusive. Paper pulp can be transformed into sculptural works, drawings with pulp and unusual surface textures. It can allude to skin, metal, rock or something quite totally different. Explore all of these possibilities. Stretch your artistic and technical skills to create unusual works of art.

Andrea Peterson is an artist and educator. She lives and creates work in northwest Indiana, , Hook Pottery Paper, a studio and gallery co-owned with her husband. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She combines paper arts, printmaking and book arts to make works that address the human relationship to the environment. She was recently collected by Whirlpool Corporation in St. Joseph, MI and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City which recognized her as a 21st century creator of unusual handmade papers and surface design.

Andrea Peterson, Embrace, 2023, kozo, ink, dye, 24 x 67 in.