Educational Events
Educational Events & Artist Talks
Dieu Donné offers virtual and in-person artist talks and panel discussions exploring the art of hand papermaking and the collaborative artistic process. Virtual programs are open to a global online audience, and recordings of past talks and panels are available on Dieu Donné's YouTube Channel. In-person events are held at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, New York, and at partnering museums and institutions across the country.
Dieu Donné's educational events are offered on a pay-what-you-can or free basis. Fee waivers are available for enrolled students or anyone with financial need.
Our educational 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, the National Endowment for the Arts, and generous foundation and individual support.
Upcoming
Time Light Gravity with Mika Obayashi
VIRTUAL • TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 12 - 1 PM ET
In this virtual artist talk, Mika Obayashi will share her experience as the West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné with Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator, Tatiana Ginsberg.
By reaching into what feels to be a spiritual realm of material that calls attention to its agency and history, Obayashi’s work attempts to humble the human by positioning them between the cosmic and intimate scales simultaneously. Through paper and sculpture, she forms new arrangements and images that are universes unto themselves. They are knowable in their materiality, but somehow (in configuration, color, scale) reveal the infinite potential of familiar things, gesturing forward and backward in time but with a singular now function.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mika Obayashi is a fiber and sculpture artist from Michigan. She earned her BA from Amherst College in 2019 and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2025. Obayashi has shown her work at GalleryGallery (Kyoto, Japan), Jewett Gallery at Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA), Carvalho (Brooklyn, NY), Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, NY), Fjord (Philadelphia, PA), and 5U Space (Philadelphia, PA), among others. She has received support from the American Craft Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation and has attended residencies at Studio Kura, Women’s Studio Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. Obayashi served as the 2025-26 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY.
Jumping in at the Deep End: A Conversation with Caroline Ongpin
VIRTUAL • MONDAY, JUNE 22, 12 - 1 PM ET
Caroline Ongpin, 2025 Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow, talks with Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator Tatiana Ginsberg about her fellowship experience training and working with the Dieu Donné studio team.
Caroline will discuss her foray into hand papermaking coming from a printmaker’s background, including the ups and downs of exploration in a new medium. She will discuss the development of her handmade paper work throughout the 8-month period, and explain the process behind selected pieces made during the fellowship.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Caroline Ongpin is a visual artist working primarily in printmaking. She was the 2025 Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow at Dieu Donné, which followed a year at Tamarind Institute’s Printer Training Program. She has had residencies with Arquetopia Foundation and Guttenberg Arts, and has had solo exhibitions at the Museo Taller Erasto Cortés in Puebla, Mexico and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. Ongpin received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines and later studied at The Art Students League of New York, where she is now an instructor of printmaking. Ongpin is also the owner and lead printer of collaborative lithography studio, Ermitanya Editions, located in Brooklyn, New York.
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Past Online Events
Video recordings of past webinars are available on Dieu Donné’s YouTube Channel.
Online: 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.
