Papermaking for a Livable Future with Hannah Chalew

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Drawing on the history of her South Louisiana landscape, Hannah Chalew creates artwork using “plasticane” paper: an amalgamation of bagasse, the waste product of sugarcane production, and shredded disposable plastic waste, the byproduct of fossil fuel extraction. Examining the influences of capitalism and racism on the exploitation of Louisiana’s people and ecologies, including the legacy of forced labor plantations and fossil fuel extraction, burning and refining, Chalew uses “plasticane” to hold the history of how we got to this moment in time and to create visions of a future our descendants might inherit if we do not change course. 

In this talk, Chalew will describe her artistic practice in traditional drawing and dimensional papermaking as a means towards imagining a different future through art. By using renewable materials from her local ecosystem, Chalew offers an alternate perspective on how we can relate to our world, inviting viewers to rethink how we can break the cycles we are stuck in and imagine a livable future for Louisiana and beyond.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hannah Chalew is an artist, educator and environmental activist raised and currently working in New Orleans. She received her BA from Brandeis University in 2009, and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Chalew has exhibited widely around New Orleans and has shown around the country at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY; Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Dieu Donné, New York, NY; Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC, and other venues. Her work has been featured in American Craft, Hand Papermaking, the New York Times, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and more. Her work is held in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She is the 2022 South Arts Southern Prize winner as well as the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow.

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Process and Practice: Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation

VIRTUAL | WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6, 6:30 - 7:30 PM ET

Join Dieu Donné virtually on Wednesday, December 6th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm ET for Process & Practice: Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation with Apsara DiQuinzio and Tatiana Ginsberg.

In this virtual talk, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will discuss his exploration of papermaking in the context of his multidisciplinary artistic practice with Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art, and Tatiana Ginsberg, Dieu Donné Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator. Rooted in generational knowledge of Indigenous craft and art, Luger creates monumental artworks utilizing repurposed materials, ceramics, textiles, steel, and digital media. In an ongoing collaboration with Dieu Donné, Luger has created handmade paper feathers and bustles to replicate and reinterpret customary regalia of Northern Plains tribes as part of a larger body of new work, Speechless, currently on view at the Nevada Museum of Art. Join us to learn more about his creative process to reclaim and reframe 21st century North American Indigeniety and its powerful global relevance, addressing the legacies of cultural appropriation and colonization.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. Luger’s bold visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our collective humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview. His work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gardiner Museum, Toronto and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Georgia. Luger has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim, United States Artists, Creative Capital, Smithsonian and Joan Mitchell Foundation. Website

Apsara DiQuinzio is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art. Since joining the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021, she initiated and leads the institution's first Green Team, which works to increase sustainability awareness and policy changes within the institution. She recently organized Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless, as well as Elisheva Biernoff: Reservoirs of Time, currently on view at the Museum. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phylllis C. Watis MATRIX Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she organized over 40 exhibitions. She has also held curatorial positions at SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. DiQuinzio has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs and publications, including Artforum, Mousse, The Exhibitionist, and Cura.

Tatiana Ginsberg studied papermaking and book arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In between she spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. Returning to the U.S. she taught papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and drawing in universities for more than a decade. As Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. She also edits the series Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper for The Legacy Press. Her own work combines traditional and contemporary methods of papermaking and is exhibited nationally and internationally.

HANJI EDITION: CONTEMPORARY WORKS ON KOREAN HANDMADE PAPER

ONLINE WEBINAR | OCTOBER 25, 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Hanji Edition is a producer of limited edition books, prints, and objects made with hanji, Korean handmade paper. In this talk, co-founders Steph Rue and Lars Kim will discuss their collaborative approach and what motivates them to publish books and prints on hanji. The talk will include a survey of past projects as well as a discussion of their current project, a collaborative book featuring prints by Korean American artists, to be released in 2024.

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ABOUT STEPH RUE & LARS KIM

Steph Rue is an artist working primarily with handmade paper and books as her medium. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and BA from Stanford University. In 2015-2016 she studied Korean books, paper, print, and textiles through a Fulbright Research Grant to South Korea. Her works are held in private and public collections, including Yale University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, and the Asian Art Museum. Steph is a co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and a co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of fine art and print works on hanji. She is a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective and serves on the board of Hand Papermaking. Steph has taught at Mills College, Penland School of Craft, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. She lives and works out of her home studio in Sacramento, CA.

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Lars Kim is a designer, printmaker and educator based in Portland, Oregon. After completing studies at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Copenhagen, she worked in architecture and new media before managing creative production at Logos Graphics in San Francisco. Her print work frequently blends multiple processes (offset, letterpress, screen print and intaglio) with Eastern, Western and experimental forms of hand papermaking and bookbinding.

Lars teaches at the San Francisco Center for the Book, where she created an artist’s book called Shipjangsaeng in 2017. She is also a member of From Jikji to Gutenberg, a UNESCO-supported transnational project which seeks to promote cultural democracy and understanding within historical printing narratives for a global audience. As an independent scholar, Lars investigates East Asian typography and the transmission of early printing technologies along the Silk Road. Her current research involves analysis of the Korean movable type collections at the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress. 

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Paper, Plants, and Identity with May Babcock

APRIL 27, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM

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May Babcock's artwork uses foraged plant fibers for papermaking to engage with both the materiality of place and discovery of multiracial identity. In this talk, the artist will take a deep dive into how we collectively talk about plants from other places (think of the words 'invasive' or 'native') and her work towards an ecocentric way of thinking about problematic plants, humans, and nature.

May Babcock is an interdisciplinary American artist whose work is rooted in hand papermaking and place, and involves turning plants and seaweed into paper. Her practice reconnects people to the voice of the land and waters, transforming plant fibers, sediment, and site materials into expansive installations, organic sculptures, analog photos and prints on paper, and textured two-dimensional works of paper.

Her artwork intersects the fields of hand papermaking, contemporary craft, book arts, ecological art, gardening, public art, community building, sculpture, installation art, printmaking, and analog photography. The artist teaches and exhibits widely, and has been the recipient of numerous artist residencies, grants, and fellowships. Babcock is a Certified Invasive Plant Manager and a Master Gardener.

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Join Dieu Donné on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 6:30pm for a conversation with artists Abby Leigh, Susan Gosin, and Nazanin Noroozi in an exploration of Gosin and Leigh’s work combining printmaking and hand papermaking in the form of artists’ books. As the inaugural Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow, Nazanin selected two key works dealing with materiality, tactility, and literature: One Evening, (2011) by Abby Leigh, held in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney Museum of Art, and Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems, (1980) by Susan Gosin, held in the collections of Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Michigan. Both books approach the combination of handmade paper, intaglio, and poetry with distinctive artistic perspectives and exceptional craftsmanship. In this webinar, the artists will discuss the creative and collaborative process behind these works, as well as the history of artist’s books at Dieu Donné. Special thanks to the IFPDA Foundation for their generous support of this program.

About the Artists

Abby Leigh is an American artist based in New York City. Abby Leigh's work examines the relationship of order and randomness; microcosm and macrocosm; and what lies beneath the surface, both literally and conceptually. Her work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; among others. Leigh has exhibited extensively across Europe and the United States, most recently at Tennis Elbow at the Journal Gallery, in Tribeca.

Susan Gosin co-founded Dieu Donné in New York in 1976, collaborating with artists and writers as designer and publisher of two and three-dimensional art and limited editions of artist’s books. Her artist’s books have been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University, and The American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Gosin has been awarded grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Tiffany Foundation and in 2006 received the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council. As a teacher and educator, she has developed curricula and designed studio programs for The New School, Rutgers University, Amagansett Applied Arts, The Phumani Archival Mill, Johannesburg, South Africa, and The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. 

Nazanin Noroozi is the inaugural Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow. She is a multi-media artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory, displacement and fragility. Nazanin’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Noyes Museum of Art, NY Live Arts, Prizm Art Fair, and Columbia University. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from New York Foundation for the arts (video & film) Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYFA IAP 2018, Mass MoCA Residency, and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is an editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Nazanin completed her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including BBC News Persian, Elephant Magazine, Financial Times, and Brooklyn Rail. 

How to Attend

This online event will take place on Tuesday, October 25th from 6:30 PM—7:30 PM EST. The conversation will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by questions. To attend, register via Eventbrite. This program is pay-as-you-wish, with a suggested donation of $5.00. Attendees can access the live event through Eventbrite’s Online Event Page.

All Dieu Donné virtual events include the option of live virtual captioning. A recording of this event will be posted later this fall. If you have any questions, please contact our Grants & Education Manager, Hannah Katz, at hkatz@dieudonne.org.

Thursday, September 29, 2022 1—2 PM ET via Zoom

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Join us on September 29, 2022 for our next lunchtime webinar with Workspace Residency alumni Juan Hinojosa, Melissa Joseph, and Fanny Allié in conversation with Eliana Blechman, Dieu Donné Archive and Collection Fellow. Learn more about each artist’s practice, their exploration of paper as a medium, and their time working in the Dieu Donné studio.

This online event will take place on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 1 PM—2 PM EST via Zoom. The conversation will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by questions.

About the Artists
Juan Hinojosa is a mixed-media artist who currently lives and works in New York. Constructed from found objects, his complex collage-drawings intimately challenge greed, obsessive consumption, and the social stratification of American culture. His conflicts have resulted in a series of work that put on display his own bad habits, desires, and classic American greed. Hinojosa attended Parsons School of Design and was awarded residencies at Material for the Arts (New York), the Vermont Studio Center (Vermont), and LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island COVID-19 Response Residency program). His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Woodside Herald, and Open House New York. Hinojosa’s first solo exhibition was at Allegra LaViola Gallery (2012). Since then he has had solo exhibitions at Materials for the Arts (New York), Union College, Schenectady, and he was part of the Biennial at El Museo del Barrio (New York).

Melissa Joseph is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist. Her work addresses themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a first generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, and featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Zyzzyva. She has participated in residencies at the Textile Arts Center, BRIC, Dieu Donné, and soon at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts.  

Fanny Allié graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, in Arles, France in 2005. Princeton University, Equity Gallery, Hyatt Centric (Philadelphia), DOT Art, A.I.R Gallery, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Fresh Window, and St Eustache Church (Paris, France) have organized solo and public installations of her work. Owen James Gallery, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight + Volume, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Pratt Institute and The Bronx Museum, among others have featured her work in group exhibitions. Fanny is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies including AIM (Bronx Museum), BRIC Arts | Media, Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Yaddo Residency, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Craft/Sculpture) and MacDowell Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, NY Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Blouin Art Info, DNA Info, Marie Claire Italy, among others.

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