Virtual Education
Online Public Programs
Dieu Donné offers educational webinars, artist talks, and panel discussions that explore the art of hand papermaking and the collaborative artistic process. Open to a global virtual audience, these programs provide insight into the craft and the collaborative artistic process.
Video recordings of past webinars are available on Dieu Donné’s YouTube Channel.
Our online public programs are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and generous foundation and individual support.
Upcoming Online Events
Screens & Grids with Lauren Krukowski
Thursday, May 8 · 1:00 - 2:00pm EDT
Abstracting imagery and creating patterns from her lived experiences, Lauren Krukowski mirrors the processes and aesthetics of textile traditions in print and handmade paper. Her work undergoes various iterations as it is layered, cut, and sewn, resulting in combinations of color, texture, and pattern influenced by textiles, quilting, and properties of light. In this talk, Lauren will discuss her mutli-disciplinary practice and the works in paper she made during her 2024-25 West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lauren Krukowski's work moves fluidly through hand papermaking, printmaking, and textile processes. She stretches everyday objects and ideas from her immediate surroundings beyond the familiar and expected through paper and fabric collage. In March 2025, she completed the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné. Previous awards and artist residencies have supported her work and research, including the Stanley Award for International Research Fellowship (2022), Print Workshop Residency at David Krut Workshop (2022), Guttenberg Arts' Space and Time Artist Residency (2020), and the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship Residency at Anderson Center (2016). Recent exhibitions include "Tacit Knowledge" at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and "And, And, And" at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' Project Art Gallery. Lauren earned an MFA in printmaking and papermaking from the University of Iowa in 2024 and a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Peninsula School of Art in Door County, WI.
witness marks: Exhibition Talk with SR Lejeune
Wednesday, May 28 · 6:30 - 7:30pm EDT
SR Lejeune working in Dieu Donné's studio during their fellowship.
SR Lejeune’s artistic practice spans multiple disciplines, holding craft as a way of seeing and an approach to utility as both possibility and limitation. Sensitive to the relationships between fiction and function, invisibility and legibility, and hand and industry, SR creates perpetual prototypes of trans corporeality. Their sculptures utilize materiality to disrupt false binaries and embrace unfixed form.
In this artist talk, SR will share artworks made during their West Bay View Foundation fellowship at Dieu Donné influenced by the accumulated imprints of time on city sidewalks.
Their cumulative fellowship exhibition, witness marks, will be on view at Dieu Donné. An opening reception will be held Monday, March 31, 5:30 - 7:00 pm at Dieu Donné.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
SR Lejeune (b. 1994, Boston, MA) is an artist currently based in Pine Plains, NY. They received a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College (2015), were a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) and hold an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023). They were the Books and Paper Studio Coordinator at the Penland School of Craft from 2018 to 2021, and have taught workshops at Penland and Women's Studio Workshop. SR was the 2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné, a 2024 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow, and a resident artist at Women’s Studio Workshop in 2025. Recent solo exhibitions include “sky light” at CHAMBER lower_cavity (Holyoke, MA) and “witness mark” at Dieu Donné Jordan Schnitzer Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). They are currently building out a manual machine shop in upstate New York.
Hand-beaten Bark Paper & Natural Dyes with Lisa Miles
Thursday, June 12 · 6:30 - 7:30 pm ET
Lisa Miles, Sanctuary, 2023, Hand-beaten Japanese Kozo, Indigo, 24” x 18”.
Deepening her connection with the natural world, papermaker and book artist Lisa Miles creates hand-beaten bark paperworks using bast fibers and natural dyes. Her process transforms raw materials into undulating, abstract landscapes where image and paper merge seamlessly. Each piece is crafted by "drawing" with plant-dyed fibers on a wood board, a process done upside down and backwards, then hand-beaten with a volcanic stone. The final image only reveals itself after the sheet dries. Striving to localize her practice further, she has been cultivating a fiber and dye garden at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is working towards embedding the spirit of place into each piece, while making offerings to desert pollinators and honoring the slow, meditative journey from seed to sheet.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lisa Miles is a papermaker and book artist who creates one-of-a-kind, hand-beaten bark paperworks. Originally from New England, Miles is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book, a BFA in Graphic Design from the New England School of Art & Design, and an AA in Printmaking from the Santa Fe Community College. In 2016, she researched papel amate in Mexico, with support from a University of Iowa Stanley Graduate Award for International Research. In 2017–2018, she received a Fulbright Arts Research Grant for her project, “Bark Paper, Plant Dyes, and Book Arts in Indonesia,” where she studied daluang bark paper in Java and fuya barkcloth in Sulawesi. In 2018, Miles was awarded the Holle Award for Excellence in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the British Library, Fisher Fine Arts Materials Library, and University of Denver Special Collections, among others.
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Past Online Events + Workshops
Video recordings of past webinars are available on Dieu Donné’s YouTube Channel.
Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking (2021)
“Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking” was a virtual lecture series featuring papermakers from around the world. The series explored both historic and contemporary approaches to papermaking through talks by individuals with expertise in papermaking in Japan, Korea, India, Chile, and Spain. Among the topics discussed were traditional fibers, tools, and papermaking techniques, as well as contemporary trends in production papermaking and artistic experimentation.
Special thanks to the Windgate Foundation for their generous support for Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking.
Past online lectures can be viewed here, with closed captioning available for each.
Remote & Online Learning
Papermaking lectures are available by our Professional studio staff for a small fee. Our staff works with each instructor directly to gear the presentation and talk to their particular interests.
Various pricing options are available, with lengths of lectures varying from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. Remote lectures can be done by Zoom or other preferred group video call platforms.
To schedule a class, please email dieudonne@dieudonne.org.