Academic Resources

Institute of Paper Science & Technology

Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
CRCA is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego. CRCA exists to foster collaborative working relationships among artists, scientists and technologists by identifying and promoting projects in which common research interests may be advanced through the application of computer-mediated strategies.

Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
Arrowmont is an internationally known visual arts complex offering courses in a variety of subjects including papermaking, weaving, fabric design, drawing, painting, and photography. Their support services include artist-in-residence, assistantships, work study and scholarships.

Penland School of Crafts
Penland School promotes individual and artistic growth through programs and facilities that serve a range of craft endeavors. They offer courses in book arts, papermaking, textiles, glass formation, and more.

Oregon College of Art & Craft
Oregon College of Art and Craft is an accredited independent craft college offering studio classes in Book Arts, Ceramics, Drawing, Fibers, Metal, Photography and Wood. Students can pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a three-year Certificate in Crafts or enroll in the Colleges extension series of Open Program classes.

The Book Arts Press
The Book Arts Press (BAP) is a bibliographical laboratory supporting various programs concerning the history of the book and related areas. Founded at Columbia University in 1972 by Terry Belanger, the BAP moved to the University of Virginia (UVa) under his direction in 1992.

Wells Book Arts Center
The Wells College Press was founded in 1941 by Victor Hammer, an internationally renowned figure in twentieth century graphic arts who achieved some of his greatest work during his days at Wells College. His publications, making his own type, and his drawing and painting, have gained him a position among the leading typographers, printers, and artists of his time. Victor Hammer operated the Wells College Press until his retirement in 1948. In 1991 Wells College re-established the Wells College Press.

Book Arts at the University of Alabama
The Master of Fine Arts in the Book Arts Program is in its thirteenth year. The program is located in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, School of Library and Information Studies, at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; a verdant, traditional campus located on the banks of the mighty Black Warrior River. We accept up to eight new students per year for the 60-credit hour program which emphasizes the craft and art of making books by hand. We treat the book as a whole - from the first editorial inspiration, choice of typeface, book design, choice of art work to accompany the text, paper, bookbinding structure and decorative binding possibilities - with decisions based upon a careful reading of the text. Our students are highly motivated, and come from various undergraduate backgrounds and work experiences. We have four graduate assistantships available yearly, on a competitive basis.

Women's Studio Workshop
Women's Studio Workshop is a not for profit artists' space founded in 1974 to provide a supportive working environment for all persons interested in the arts. WSW staff artists coordinate grants, fellowships, internships, and exhibition opportunities for visual artists in state of the art printmaking, papermaking and photography studios.

The University of Iowa Center for the Book
Our goal is to build a comprehensive Book Studies curriculum by working with departments and faculty to establish and offer courses of interest to students in their own departmental disciplines.

Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts
Once upon a time, in 1992, a group of book artists, papermakers, printers, designers and calligraphers found themselves yearning for the perfect Book and Paper Center. They imagined a Center that would train the best, most talented people to become the most interesting, exciting new book and paper artists.

Paper Related Artists

Mary Kay Colling

STUDIO Y
where I-DE-A=imagery + design + art. Studio Y showcases the digital artwork of Sandy Young, including limited edition art prints, creative imagery, and design services. A digital bulletin board allows new media artists to discuss art issues.

Janet Maher
Works on paper, books, and community projects.

Fernwerks
Freelance copywriter, creative director and web page developer by day, artist by night, Wendy Fernstrum creates fernwerks around the clock. On this Web site you'll find signs of new growth from her greenhouse of fertile ideas.

Monoprints.com
Monoprints and monotype prints are displayed on this site along with an informative section on how to create monotypes, what schools offer suitable courses and where to get the materials.

Peter Jansen
Graphic design and printmaking on handmade papers.

Lettering & Book Arts
A non-commercial site featuring calligraphy and artist books. Nine individual calligraphers' galleris, Calligraphic & Book Arts World Travel Guide and the Australian Lettering Link.

Nancy Egol Nikkal
Contemporary paintings, prints, digital works, and collage.

Paper Work
Contemporary art making extensive use of paper by Jean-Michel Letellier.

Book Arts

The BookWeb
The University of Alabama School of Library amd Information Studies has provided this site which lists non-commercial, commercial, magazines, journals, etc.

The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
was founded to create a spirit of community among hand workers in the book arts; to promote greater public awareness of the book arts; to increase educational opportunities and foster excellence through exhibitions, workshops, lectures and publications.

The Guild of Book Workers
The Guild of Book Workers is the national non-profit organization for all the book arts. It was founded in 1906 and since that time, especially the last 15 years, has grown immensely in scope. It currently boasts over 900 members world-wide. Areas of interest include bookbinding, printing, conservation, marbling, calligraphy, and papermaking.

Miniature Book Society
The Miniature Book Society, Inc. is an international non-profit organization chartered in 1983 by the State of Ohio. Its purposes are to sustain an interest in all phases of miniature books, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and to serve as a clearing house for information about miniature books.

General Arts

äda 'web- äda'web is a research and development platform, a digital foundry, and a journey. Here, artists are invited to experiment with and reflect upon the web as a medium, and as a means of distribution for their work. While äda 'web produces most of the projects you experience on their site, they also house co-productions, guest work, events, and source material on the artists and their galleries. ah, 'da web - always subject to change.

R2001- Renaissance 2001 is a project to create a global Internet Art Festival for the year 2001. Artists who believe that art can be a positive evolutionary force have started to build a worldwide network of LightHomes across the Internet.

ArtWatch International- We believe there is a quality, a component, an aura, unique to works of art which sets them apart from other human endeavors, even closely related ones. It is our fear that this quality is particularly endangered in modern times. Those responsible for custodianship of our collective inherited imagery should be held accountable for decisions regarding the well being of works of art. We are calling for a full disclosure of information regarding specific art conservation projects, methods and historical research. We believe that, had there been a free exchange of points of view and data, many headline-gathering interventions would have been dropped altogether in favor of minimal dustings and careful maintenance procedures. Through the efforts of ArtWatch, a dialogue concerning restoration and conservation has begun, a dialogue which we hope will prevent further tragedies involving our cultural heritage.

(art)ⁿ Laboratory- Ellen Sandor, Janine Fron, Stephan Meyers, Eric Ravenstein and Fernando Orellana celebrate the (art)ⁿ presence at the SIGGRAPH art show over the years.

the Frontage Road- A journal exploring architecture, design, and spirit of place. A continuous journey into realms of quality and meaning in architecture and design.

The English Server- The English Server is a progressive student-run cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts to millions of readers online since 1990. Today it distributes over eighteen thousand works, including classics and new writing, representing a wide range of topics in the arts and humanities. Feel free to read from any of our collections, search our entire site for topics of interest, send comments to our users (or new texts) to our editors, talk on our bulletin boards, and join any or all of our public mailing lists.

Botanical Artists- This site is dedicated to bringing together the Collector, Buyer or Scientific Researcher with the many accomplished Botanical Artists working today.

Related Newsletters & E-Zines

Enterzone
A hyper web text zine media art that speaks about poetry, art, music, photography, etc.

Resource Library Magazine
online magazine devoted to American representational art.

The Birdhouse
An art collected collaboration.

Hootenanny Magazine
A companion to the multimedia production including letters, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drawings, color photocopies of paintings, and more.

Sabine Magazine
Sabine is an exciting arts and literary magazine established in 1995. We feature portfolios of artists and photographers representing a broad scope of artistic techniques and mediums as well as a diverse range of literature including poetry, short stories, and novels.

Scrapbooking & Beyond Magazine
A unique new magazine geared for both the “archival” and “creative” scrapbooker. Learn how to create and display treasured keepsakes. Discover how to preserve special memories in unique ways.

Papermills

Arnot Papermill
Arnot Papermill was founded in 1985, the actual making of the hand-made paper began in 1997. The production of the paper is fully by hand and manufactured according to the ancient masterstrokes from the XII – XVIII centuries.

Dieu Donné Papermill
Dieu Donneé is a not-for-profit hand papermaking studio located in the Soho art district of New York City. It is the principal facility in the New York metropolitan area and one of a handful in the United States.

Griffen Mill
Set in the green fields of Somerset in the South-West of England, Griffen Mill produces handmade paper for bookbinders and paper conservators. Our specialist archival quality papers can be found in libraries and archives around the world. The Mill has one vat, and output is devoted solely to producing high quality handmade paper in a traditional manner.

Inveresk PLC
This large company is a group of many smaller mills specializing in various types of papers for graphics, arts, etc including Somerset, Bockingford, and Saunders Waterford.

Museums

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
The only museum in the U.S. devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum recognizes that individuals, societies, and the natural environment are linked through design.

The International Museum of Collage
Entry page to this museum dedicated to collage, assemblage, and constructive forms of artistic production.

Papermaking Tutorials

Gomez Mill House
This informative site provides a brief history of papermaking and step-by-step instructions for creating your own paper.

NEWspaper
The Science Museum of Minnesota provides a papermaking tutorial with easy-to-follow instructions and images.

The Prairie Paper Project
A tutorial on making paper from straw.

Research Resources for Paper

UNM Fine Arts Library
The UNM General Library has many items which contain information on the construction of handmade books. The Fine Arts Library holds several artists' books which may be useful to those interested in bookmaking.

Pulp & Paper Centre
The University of Toronto has established this site to stimulate research in the science and engineering of the manufacture of pulp and paper products. "Our strategy is to focus on a few specific areas of research so we can contribute most effectively: pulp bleaching and the environment, kraft recovery boilers, paper machine science and biofiltration. In these areas we are recognized in the global research community as being strong contributors to new science. This is by no means the limit of our interest and capability. We have major efforts in process control of TMP manufacture, in non-wood pulping, and in microbiology of effluent treatment. The University faculty have a broad range of capabilities and so we are interested in new initiatives, for instance, in vibration, surface science, process control theory, and robotics."

Empire State Paper Research Institute
To conduct scientific research for the development of new concepts and deeper insights into the basic nature of pulp and paper materials and processes which can be applied by ESPRA members to advance the growth and vitality of the industry. To educate and train competent scientists and engineers for the pulp and paper industry.

INGEDE
"INGEDE wants to bring everybody involved together to ensure and improve the recyclability of paper products. The better the deinking process will be developed, the bigger the contribution of paper manufacturers is towards avoiding waste and protecting the environment."

International Standard Paper Sizes
Standard paper sizes like ISO A4 are today widely used all over the world. This text explains the ISO 216 paper size system and the ideas behind its design.

Conservation Online
CoOL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.

PainterGallery.com
A comprehensive directory for artists and painters