Join us for a special Creative Meetup designed to help artists write or refine their personal artist statements. Together, we’ll explore how to craft statements that address:

• Your overall artistic practice.

• Specific works of art.

• A cohesive body of work.

We'll also delve into the difference between an artist statement and an artist bio, clarifying their unique purposes.

An artist statement isn’t just for exhibitions or critics—it’s a vital tool for understanding your creative process, articulating your ideas, and connecting others to your art on a deeper level.

Important Note:
Participants must have their own hard copy (no Kindles or sharing) of Art-Write: The Writing Guide for Visual Artists by Vicki Krohn Amorose. This book will be used as our workbook for live writing exercises and individual work between sessions. It’s available on Amazon for approximately $8. This requirement is non-negotiable.

Personal Narratives of Life on the Border through O’odham Eyes

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Sketch onsite, in your home, share ideas and projects.

Open to those interested in improving their sketching skills, developing a regular sketchbook practice, or making art and travel journals.

This group generally meets twice a month, once on Zoom, where we often have a fun sketching exercise, and once in person which is frequently followed by a group lunch.

Dates vary based on the participant's availability.

If you’d like meeting notices, send an email request to: Lita Doesken.

Early Egyptian writing and the manuscripts produced in Europe, the Byzantine world, and the Muslim world from the 5th  to the 17th  centuries are the origin of Zentangle's “embedded letters.” The Zentangle technique for embedded letters can be used on letterheads, notecards, gift cards, book covers, and framed pieces of art. Using the provided stylized alphabet (or one of your choosing), we’ll embellish the letters/words, add tangles, and aura, aura, aura. You can work in black and white or use colored pens, inks, and pencils as seen in the photos.

Class Date & Hours: Thursday, November 21 - 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

Location: Zoom

Class fee: Members: $38.00 Non-Paperworks members: $78.00

Sign-up Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024. Registration goes live at midnight on October 2, 2024.

Cave Paper Group Tour

Date: Saturday, November 9th

Time: 12 Noon

Place: Cave Paper, 846 N. Stone Avenue. Tucson, AZ 85705

$10 per person (10% Shop Discount Included) 

Limited to 10 People

Gather afterwards at Time Market for an optional, no-host lunch

Sign up at the next PaperWorks Meeting on October 3rd

Katherine Ferguson - Organizer

socialevents@paperworks.info 

This Paper Quilled Bowl Class with Erin Newman will be in two parts. In the first class, Erin will supply quilling paper, tools, glue bottles, and instructions for making the tight coils. Erin will also have some creative ideas to add whimsy to your design. Students will make some coils in class; however, the majority of the coil production will be done ON YOUR OWN at home before the second class.

The second class is longer, allowing extra time for the final steps. For the second class, students will need to have ALL COILS READY TO BE GLUED ONTO THE BOWL FORM. Once coils are glued onto the bowl, it is finished with PVA coating. *NOTE: THIS IS A 2-DAY CLASS, please make sure you can attend both.

Class Dates and Hours, 2 sessions:

Thursday, November 7, 1-3 pm

Location: St. Francis Church. You may want to bring a bag lunch as class will start promptly at 1 pm after the general meeting.

AND

Tuesday, November 12, 10-1 pm

Location: Tucson Pastel Society Art Center, 2447 N. Los Altos. The building is one block east of 1st and 1/2 block north of Grant.

Class Fee: $90.00 for members, $130.00 for non-members

Registration: Starting September 5, 2024, closes November 1, 2024 (max 16)

Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist

La Luna: PaperWorks Invitational Group Exhibition

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Arte de la Vida Gallery - 37 N Tucson Blvd

NEW DATES!

Exhibit Dates: September 3 - October 26

Artworks Delivered: Tuesday-Saturday, August 20-24, 10am-5pm

Pickup: Tuesday, October 29, 10am-5pm

Reception: September 17, 6-8:30pm

Pop-up cards are fun and addictive to make and even better to share! This class is perfect for making fun holiday cards! We’ll explore a very simple way to create basic pop-up structures that you can embellish with your own images and create your own magical wonderlands!

Class Date & Hours: Saturday, October 19 - 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Location: Zoom - The class will be recorded and will be available for 1 year.

Class fee: Members: $35.00 Non-Paperworks members: $75.00

Sign-up Date: September 6, 2024, to go live at 8:00 am

Printing without Press-Gelli Plate Printing

4 spaces left!

Save the date for an exciting, docent lead tour of the Time Travelers and Contemporary Art exhibit on September 26th, 2024 at 10:30 AM at the Tucson Museum of Art! 

Meet:

We will gather at 10:15 AM at the TMA Main Avenue entrance

The tour is scheduled to begin at 10:30. 

Tucson Museum of Art: 

140 N. Main Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701

In this 4-day Zoom workshop, you will learn the basics of eco-printing on various papers and raw silk, discover the best leaves and flowers for eco-printing, and understand how mordants enhance and change print colors. You will prepare flat layered and rolled bundles, create botanical rust prints by introducing iron, and make plant portraits for tags or journal pages. You'll receive guidance on ‘cooking’ your bundles, assembling printed pages into a gate fold journal, and collecting and storing plant material. The workshop includes a class kit with all necessary materials, access to a private Facebook group and Zoom recordings for one year, and detailed weekly instructions for registered students.

Class Date and Hours: Sept 17 & 24, Oct 1 & 8 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Location: Zoom

Class Fee: Members $245.00 Non-Members: $285.00

Registration closes on August 26

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Call To Members: “Perception”

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A PaperWorks Members' show

Pima Community College - 2202 W. Anklam Road,

​West Campus, Tucson

Exhibit Dates: Apr 22 - Sept 6, 2024​

​Fri, Sept. 6; Pick up work: at the Visual Arts Gallery 11:30 am- 2:00pm

Pima campus closed from July 8 - Aug 8 ​when the exhibit will not be available for viewing.

We will construct with hand crafted paper as well as vintage paper, scrap book inserts, vintage envelopes and letters, old documents and non-traditional papers typically not considered for this magical art form. Several projects will use found paper also known as “road-kill”. We will approach collage from a formalist perspective: looking at composition in regards to space, shape, line, color and pattern. At the end of each project we look at our collages as a group and consider the work as a unit, critique individual work, shedding light on what makes a good composition, learning to construct intuitively.

Class Date & Hours: Thursday, September 5, 1:00-4:00, following September meeting

Location: Saint Francis in the Foothills

Registration: May 20, 2024 (FULL WAITLIST ONLY)

Class Fee: Members - $100 Non-Members:$140

The Art of Hand Coated Printmaking - Palladium & Gum Dichromate

Big and Little: Mastering the Art of Working Large in Collage is designed to help stretch participants out of their comfort zone, into the realm of creating large works suitable for any show or gallery, with the confidence that comes from understanding how to scale up without losing the integrity of the design.

Class Date: It is a self-paced, pre-recorded class. Access to the Video will begin on July 15, 2024.

Location: Access through Instructor’s Vimeo account with password. Live Zoom meet-up after the class, PaperWorks will host this meeting

Registration: April 23, 2024

Registration closes: July 1, 2024 REGISTRATION CLOSED

Class Fee: Members - $100 Non-Members: $140

Mini Zhen Xian Bao Book and Booklet with Rosemary Rae

Create a small, hard cover version of a Zhen Xian Bao or Chinese thread book. Our version is small for easy assembly, and once completed you can carry with you to store little, wonderful things! Our book has a two pockets and two boxes and you will also construct a tiny book to place in one of the beautiful boxes; perfect for a little note or secret poem.

Fees: Members : $35; Non-Paperworks members : $75