Classes 2024
Dieu Donné Paper Institute 2024
Dieu Donné is excited to announce our 2024 Paper Institute workshops, a series of in-depth, hands-on papermaking courses for beginning and experienced papermakers with inspiring guest instructors and Dieu Donné’s studio team.
How to Enroll
General enrollment for workshops will open on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 8:00 am ET. To meet high demand for limited spaces in our classes, students may only enroll in one workshop each.
If a class is sold out after that date, you may sign up for the waitlist for a sold out course here. A Dieu Donné staff member will reach out to you by phone or email if an opening becomes available.
Scholarships
We are pleased to offer multiple full-tuition scholarships for every workshop to expand educational papermaking opportunities to students who could not participate without financial assistance. Artists who have already collaborated with Dieu Donné or received awards such as residencies and fellowships are ineligible. Past scholarship recipients are eligible to receive future scholarships. Scholarship applications were due on March 22, 2024. We aim to notify applicants by April 30, 2024. Applicants for the July workshop may be notified later than April 30. Scholarships for Embodied Investigations: Papermaking for Art Educators are awarded through the application for that class.
Please note: If you have applied for a scholarship, participating in general enrollment will disqualify your application.
Special thanks to the Windgate Charitable Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and private donors for their generous support of the Paper Institute classes and scholarships.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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In the event that Dieu Donné cancels a class, students will receive a full refund.
If you cancel your registration 3 weeks (21 days) before the class start date, you will receive a full refund. If you cancel your registration less than 3 weeks (21 days) before the class start date, refunds are not available.
Students who cannot attend class due to Covid-19 infection or exposure are eligible for refund or class credit. Please contact Hannah Katz at hkatz@dieudonne.org or (212) 226-0573.
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The physical demands of most workshops include standing for long periods of time, lifting tools and equipment, and the use of fine motor skills.
Dieu Donné is located on the sixth floor of a building with elevator access, with a wheelchair accessible bathroom.
Please contact Hannah, Grants and Education Manager, at hkatz@dieudonne.org if you have any accessibility questions or requests. -
All students and instructors are required to be fully vaccinated. Review Dieu Donné’s full COVID-19 policy here.
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On March 30 at 8 am EST, you will be able to click on the buttons next to your selected class to add to cart. You will then need to complete check-out from the shopping cart (in the top right corner of the website) to complete registration.
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General Enrollment opens on March 30 at 8am EST.
If a class is sold out after that date, you may sign up for the waitlist for a sold out course here. A Dieu Donné staff member will reach out to you by phone or email if an opening becomes available.
SOLD OUT
Mining Histories: Stenciling, Embedding & Collage with Nazanin Noroozi
MAY 17 - 19, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Mining the personal archive to build narratives, students will explore the unique possibilities of papermaking to create layered artworks. Playing with sequencing, layers, and texture, we will build dialogues between our histories and presents. In this workshop, students will experiment with techniques of pulp painting, stenciling, collage, and embedding to create artworks incorporating their own ephemera and personal archives. Students are encouraged to bring in photographs, past artwork and experiments, textiles, and other ephemera to transform these materials into new artworks.
No papermaking experience required; beginners welcome.
About the Instructor
Nazanin Noroozi is a multi-disciplinary artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory and displacement. Noroozi’s work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums across the world including SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Athopos, Athens, Greece; Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; Immigrant Artist Biennial, NARS, Brooklyn; Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey; as well as NY Live Arts, School of Visual Arts, and Postcrypt Art Gallery at Columbia University. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (film and video), Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellowship at Dieu Donne, Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Mass MoCA residency. She is an editor at large of Kaarnamaa; A Journal of Art History and Criticism. Noroozi completed her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including, Die Zeit Magazine, Evergreen Review, BBC, Elephant Magazine, Financial Times, and Brooklyn Rail.
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Paper and Light Alchemy: Cyanotype on Handmade Paper with Henry Obeng
MAY 31 - JUNE 2, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
In this workshop, students will create cyanotype prints on handmade paper, incorporating upcycled textiles, pulp painting, collage, and found materials. We will layer handmade paper processes and cyanotype to embrace sustainability and make meaningful connections between materials, history, and culture while exploring expressions of aesthetics and beauty. Such techniques add layers of depth and significance to artistic expression while addressing contemporary concerns of environmental impact and resource consumption. Students will also learn how to make direct cyanotype prints from materials, and will create a series of small-scale experimental cyanotypes over the course of the workshop.
No papermaking experience required; beginners welcome.
About the Instructor
Henry Obeng is a Ghanaian-born artist who received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and BA in Fine Art from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Obeng creates handmade paper from plant fibers and upcycled textile waste, revealing the unique characteristics of each fiber. Through his photographic storytelling illustrations, Obeng explores ideas informed by the natural world and his observations and experiences as an international person moving between cultures. Rooted in hand papermaking and place, his interdisciplinary practice reconnects people to the voice of the environment. His artwork intersects the fields of hand papermaking, contemporary craft, book arts, ecological art, public art, community building, installation art, printmaking, and analog/digital photography. Obeng teaches and exhibits widely. Obeng has served on the diversity committee for the North American Hand Papermaking Association since 2021 and was included in the Hand Papermaking Magazine’s 14th portfolio of handmade paper.
SOLD OUT
Concerning the Reliquary: Laminate Casting with Jazmine Catasús
ZOOM SESSION: JUNE 29, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
IN STUDIO: JULY 12 - 14, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Inspired by the materiality of reliquaries as a utilitarian form to elicit veneration, as relics are mainly encountered through their encasements (reliquaries), students in this course will form sculptures by encasing found or handmade objects in freshly pulled sheets of abaca or flax paper. Students will learn to pull sheets of paper, embellish each sheet with pulp paint and stencils, and to use handmade paper as a sculptural material. The objects students bring to encase may remain encased or be removed from the paper form. Over the course of the workshop, students can expect to create 2-5 small-scale sculptures of varying levels of completion.
No papermaking experience required; beginners welcome.
About the Instructor
Jazmine Catasús is an artist and educator primarily working with print and papermaking. Her practice is concerned with the intersections of ornamentation, materiality, and spiritual practices, and Black Subjectivity. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from CUNY-Hunter College. She was trained as a papermaker at Pace Paper and Dieu Donné Papermill. Jazmine has taught printmaking and papermaking workshops at several institutions, including Dieu Donné, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the International Print Center of New York, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Noguchi Museum. Her work has been exhibited nationally, most recently at the National Arts Club (NYC). She is the Artistic Director/Master Printer at EFA-Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and serves on the Board of Hand Papermaking Inc. Jazmine has attended residencies at The Bard Graduate Center, The Penland School of Crafts, and the Morgan Conservatory.
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$700
Embodied Investigation: Papermaking for Art Educators with Candy González
IN-STUDIO: JULY 26 - 28, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
ZOOM SESSIONS: JULY 19 + AUGUST 2, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
In this workshop, K-12 classroom educators and teaching artists will learn about papermaking as a historical, contemporary, and expressive art form. Through demos, facilitated inquiry-based investigation, and open studio time, participants will both develop foundational papermaking skills and experiment with papermaking processes including pulp painting, stenciling, and collaging. This workshop will encourage participants to notice and observe how papermaking engages the senses and how the process is experienced in the body, in order to understand the potential of papermaking as an expressive tool for self-discovery, self-exploration and healing. Additionally, through group reflection and collective inquiry, participants will consider how to develop integrated papermaking units. Participants can expect to create both small-scale samples of various hand papermaking techniques as well as a small series of works that results from artistic exploration with the medium.
Eligibility:
Participants must be currently employed as art educators. Community-based teaching artists should have at least 3 years of experience and be actively teaching). Participants may teach K-12 audiences or adults. Participants do not have to be based in New York. A certain number of spaces are reserved for local educators who serve low-income communities. Please contact Hannah Katz, Grants & Education Manager, at hkatz@dieudonne.org if you have any questions.
How to Enroll:
Complete this application by March 30, 2024. Students will be contacted by April 12 if they have been accepted into the class. Where available, students are encouraged to seek professional development funds for tuition from their institutions. Dieu Donné is also pleased to offer full-tuition scholarships on a competitive basis for educators who do not have professional development funding available to them. Scholarships for this course are awarded through the main application.
About the Instructor
Candy Alexandra González is a Little Havana-born and Philadelphia-based, multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, activist and trauma-competent art educator.
Candy received their MFA in Book Arts + Printmaking from the University of the Arts in 2017. Since graduating, they have been a 40th Street Artist-in-Residence in West Philadelphia, a West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY, Leeway Art and Change Grant Recipient and the 2021 Linda Lee Alter Fellow for the DaVinci Art Alliance.
Candy is currently an Art Education Doctoral Student at Teachers College, Columbia University.