The lovely and talented Melissa Jay Craig is featured in the show Respite, at the Vespine Gallery in Chicago. Melissa spent the spring here with us at the workshop coaxing pulp into dazzling shapes and colors. She writes about her experience at the workshop, and at two other residencies she took part in this past [...]

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This month, join us in the WSW studios to view artwork by our current artists in residence as they discuss the methods and inspiration they use in the creative process.
Katherine Spinella – Art-in-Education, Etching Fellowship
Kyla Luedtke – Art-in-Education, Artist Book Residency
Tuesday, November 17th 7:30pm
free and open to the public
Located at Women’s Studio Workshop
722 Binnewater Lane, Rosendale, NY [...]

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A selection of WSW book works is part of the Rutgers exhibition that accompanied the 15th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium. WSW directors Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner participated in one of the panels at the symposium, along with Karen McDermott (Book Arts Roundtable), Linda Helm Krapf (Printmaking Council of New Jersey), Esther Smith, [...]

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A bunch of us have been collecting walnuts this fall. There has been an unusual abundance of them this year. We have talked about making dye for cloth, pigment for  paper, ink for drawing and how it might be possible to make oil based ink for printing. Has anyone had any experience with using black [...]

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Past artist book resident Erica Harris just returned from Guatemala where she spent September teaching soap-making workshops in the village of Xeabaj Dos. Erica was invited by Oxlajuj B’atz’, an organization that is working to improve the lives of indigenous Mayan women. You can see beautiful pictures from Erica’s trip on her website.
A solo [...]

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