Paper Institute Workshops

Dieu Donné Paper Institute Workshops

Dieu Donné’s Paper Institute workshops are a series of in-depth, hands-on papermaking workshops for beginning and experienced papermakers alike. Led by inspiring guest instructors alongside Dieu Donné’s studio team, each workshop offers focused technical instruction, exploration, and immersive studio time.

2026 Papermaking Workshops

Papermaking for Art Educators with Susan Hamburger & Tatiana Ginsberg
Four-day Workshop: July 13 - 16, 2026

Positive & Negative Space: Process-Based Image Making with Lauren Krukowski
Three-day Workshop: August 7 - 9, 2026

Material Memory: Pulp Casting with SR Lejeune
Pre-workshop Zoom: August 8, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
Four-day Workshop: Wednesday, August 26 - Saturday, August 29

Important Dates

General Eventbrite Enrollment Opens
Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 8:30 AM ET

Scholarship Application Deadline
Sunday, March 15, 2026, by 11:59 PM ET

Know Before You Enroll

Our workshops are in high demand and typically sell out within minutes. To make the process as fair as possible, please note:

You can either apply for a scholarship or enroll via Eventbrite.
Enrolling via Eventbrite secures your spot immediately, if space is available, and disqualifies you from scholarship consideration.
Students may enroll in only one workshop per season.
If a workshop sells out, we highly encourage joining the waitlist via Eventbrite.

WORKSHOP FAQs

Please review the following information for commonly asked questions:

To give yourself the best chance of enrolling, we strongly recommend:
- Logging into your Eventbrite account in advance.
- Saving your payment information within Eventbrite ahead of time.
- Being ready at the moment enrollment opens, on Saturday March 7 at 8:00 AM ET.
If a workshop sells out, we encourage you to join the waitlist on Eventbrite. Cancellations are not uncommon, and waitlist spots often open as the workshop date approaches.
- If a space becomes available, you will be automatically notified by email from Eventbrite.
- You will have 24 hours to confirm and submit payment.
- If payment is not received within that window, the spot will be offered to the next person on the waitlist.
All refund requests for classes must be processed through Eventbrite. Processing fees will be deducted from all refunds and not returned to the purchaser.
- Full Refunds (minus processing fee): Requests for refunds made at least 15 days before the first session of the workshop. Although cancellations under 7 days will not receive a refund, we still highly encourage you to let us know if you cannot attend–this will allow us to offer a last-minute scholarship spot to another student.
- 50% Refunds (minus processing fee): Requests for refunds made 7-14 days prior to the first session of the workshop.
- No Refund: Requests for refunds received less than 7 days before the first workshop session.
The “first session of the workshop” is defined as the first gathering of students listed in the course description, regardless of whether it is a virtual or in-person session.
In the event that Dieu Donné cancels a workshop prior to the start date, students will receive a full refund. In the case of an emergency resulting in Dieu Donné canceling an in-progress workshop, students will receive prorated refunds reflecting the amount of lost class time.
The physical demands of most workshops include standing for long periods of time, lifting tools and equipment, and the use of fine motor skills. The papermaking studio is an inherently wet space, which can make the environment warm and humid with wet floors. To ensure safety and comfort, rain boots and waterproof aprons are provided to all students.
Dieu Donné is committed to making our workshops accessible to individuals with disabilities. We are happy to try to make adjustments and accommodations for students requiring specific support.
If you have any accessibility questions or would like to request accommodations, please email education@dieudonne.org.
Yes, Dieu Donné is wheelchair-accessible. Dieu Donné is located on the sixth floor of Building 3 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The studio is accessible via two passenger elevators, and there is an all-gender wheelchair-accessible bathroom onsite. Wheelchair users will need DD staff assistance to operate the stair lift outside of our building.
If you have any accessibility questions or would like to request accommodations, please email education@dieudonne.org.
All students and instructors must be fully vaccinated. Masks are optional but available on-site for anyone who wishes to use them.
For more details, please review Dieu Donné’s full COVID-19 policy here.

Scholarship OPPORTUNITIES

A blowout papermaking technique being demonstrated at Dieu Donné. Photo by Obed Owoge.

We are pleased to offer multiple full-tuition scholarships for each workshop, making papermaking more accessible to students in need of financial assistance.

Eligibility

Past scholarship recipients may apply again.
Scholarships are awarded based on both financial need and artistic merit. No papermaking experience is required.
Artists who have previously collaborated with Dieu Donné or received awards such as residencies and fellowships are not eligible.
Artists from a wide range of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Scholarship Timeline

Application Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026 by 11:59 pm ET
Notification by: Late April, 2026

Thank you to the Windgate Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and private donors for their generous support of Paper Institute classes and scholarships.

2026 Workshop Catalog

Tatiana Ginsberg (right) teaching *Papermaking for Art Educators* in 2024.

Papermaking for Art Educators with Tatiana Ginsberg and Susan Hamburger

Four-day Workshop
Monday, July 13 - Thursday, July 16, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Enrollment: By application only. Each selected participant receives full-tuition scholarship.

In this course, classroom educators (fourth grade elementary through adults) will learn about papermaking as a historical and contemporary art form and develop the skills to produce papermaking units for their students. In addition to lectures and demos based on replicating Dieu Donné’s successful papermaking workshops for youth and college students, participants will have open studio time to experiment with papermaking processes including pulp painting, stenciling, and collaging in the wet process. No papermaking experience is required.

Eligibility:

Must be currently employed as an art educator in schools teaching students from 4th grade to university, or adult education
- Freelance teaching artists and school-based educators must be currently employed to be eligible for this class
Scholarships are awarded based on both financial need and artistic merit. No papermaking experience is required.
Artists who have previously collaborated with Dieu Donné or received awards such as residencies and fellowships are not eligible.
Educators from a wide range of cultural, disciplinary, and geographic backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Several scholarships are reserved for Arkansas-based educators, and NYC public school teachers.

PAPERMAKING FOR ART EDUCATORS APPLICATION

About Susan Hamburger
Susan Hamburger lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Brandeis University, an MFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and an MA in Art Education from The City College of New York, CUNY. Awards and fellowships include: The 2026 Anita Wetzel Residency at The Women’s Studio Workshop, Dieu Donné Paper Mill, The Wassaic Project Print Studio, The National Academy Abbey Mural Workshop, and Aljira. Hamburger has participated in residencies at Ucross Foundation, Jentel Foundation, Saltonstall Foundation, The Millay Colony, PS122, Abrons Art Center, and Chashama. Solo exhibitions include: Asya Geisberg Gallery, The Wassaic Project, Roger Smith Hotel, Auxiliary Projects, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, The Gallery at 1GAP, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Tomasulo Gallery at Union County College, Safe-T Gallery and Cheryl McGinnis Gallery. Group exhibitions include: The Brooklyn Museum, Urban Glass, Mixed Greens, Pierogi Gallery, 601Artspace, Pelham Art Center, and No Longer Empty. Her work has been featured in Evergreen Review, American Craft Magazine and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press) and has been reviewed and/or reproduced in numerous publications: The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Better Homes & Gardens, Apartment Therapy, The James Kalm Report, ArtFCity, and Hyperallergic. Hamburger was the contributing art editor at Waterfront Week, covering Williamsburg’s nascent art scene (1996-2002).
http://susanhamburger.net
About Tatiana Ginsberg
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. She spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant, and taught in universities and colleges for more than a decade. In her role at Dieu Donné she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. She has written and edited books and articles on paper, including 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.
www.tatianaginsberg.art

Lauren Krukowski, *Seeing Through (Fluid Grid)*, 2025, Pigmented linen and abaca, front view.

  
    Positive & Negative Space: Process-Based Image Making
with Lauren Krukowski

Three-day Workshop
Friday, August 7 - Sunday, August 9, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Enrollment: General Eventbrite or Scholarship Application

This experimental papermaking class will explore multi-layered image making with translucent abaca fibers and opaque linen pulp paint. We will build complex, ethereal images using layers of additive and subtractive techniques in sheet formation, pulp painting, watermarks, and wet collage. Participants will be invited to use the positive and negative space in their images to explore transparency and opacity of materials and additive and subtractive techniques. Students will create a series of small-scale experimental paper works. No papermaking experience is required.

Tuition: $700 + Eventbrite Fees

ENROLLMENT OPENS MARCH 7, 8:30 AM ET

Scholarship Application

Abstracting imagery and creating patterns from her lived experiences, Lauren Krukowski mirrors the processes and aesthetics of textile traditions in print, handmade paper, and quilting. Her work undergoes various iterations as it is layered, cut, and sewn, resulting in combinations of color, texture, and pattern influenced by textiles and properties of light.

Krukowski was the 2024-25 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné. Previous awards and residencies have supported her work and research, including recent artist residencies at Penland School of Craft, the Peninsula School of Art, GoggleWorks, and David Krut Workshop. 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. Her work is currently on view in “Sculpting with Paper: Hand Papermaking at Dieu Donné” at the Turchin Center for Art at Appalachain State University.
https://www.instagram.com/lauren.krukowski/
www.laurenkrukowskistudio.com

SR Lejeune, *A floor for Laurel*, cast handmade paper, 2019.

Material Memory: Pulp Casting with SR Lejeune

Pre-workshop Zoom:
August 8, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET

Four-day Workshop:
Wednesday, August 26 - Saturday, August 29
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Enrollment: General Eventbrite or Scholarship Application

Using experimental casting processes rooted in hand papermaking techniques, students will learn to record dimension and texture with paper pulp. Building on technical basics such as fiber properties, sheet formation and vacuum table usage, students will apply these skills to a variety of paper casting methods. This workshop will cover a wide range of techniques including low-relief collagraph matrices, laminate casting with high shrinkage fiber, miniature moulds with oven-bake clay, and one part plaster mould making. This experimental workshop will emphasize the unique nature of paper as a sculptural medium through a wide exploration of this material. No papermaking experience is required.

Tuition: $875 + Eventbrite Fees