Papermaking Play for Families

with Rowan Leek

July 12, 3:00–6:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family (up to 4, an additional $20 per student for 5 or more)

Materials fee: $20 per family

Join us for papermaking fun for the whole family. Learn to make your very own gorgeous paper, using different types of fiber, and leave with multiple sheets that can be air dried at home. We will explore various materials for papermaking including recycled paper, cotton, rag, and natural fibers. Family members will also paint together with brightly colored pulps to collaboratively form expressive and lively sheets of paper. After your paper is dry you can use it to craft, draw on it, or simply admire it as an artwork in its own right.

Plan to bring: A notebook or sketchbook, waterproof shoes like rainboots, and any botanical or collage materials you want to play with.

Rowan Leek is a paper and fiber artist originally from Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2020 with a BFA in Sculpture + Expanded Media. While in college, he interned at the Morgan Conservatory for two summers and learned paper and printmaking. He went on to receive a studio management internship at Penland School of Art’s Books + Paper Studios and returned the following winter as a studio assistant. Leek is currently residing in West Michigan and working as Campus Manager at Ox-Bow. Leek’s work has been shown at The Reinberger, the Betsy Gallery, Bostwick Design Initiative, and as part of the Queer Hanky Exhibition at Women’s Studio Workshop, Zygote, and The Future.

Images courtesy of the artist.