PaperWorks - January 2021 Meeting

Schedule: Jan 14, 2021 -- 10am - 12pm (MT); 
9am - 11am (PT); 11am - 1pm (CT); 12pm - 2pm (ET)

Click this link to join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82395095421 (link only works on the day/time of scheduled meeting). Meet and Greet starts at 9:30.

If you have downloaded Zoom, you can simply enter this Meeting ID: 823 9509 5421, passcode: 533398

January 2021 speaker: Mabel Dean, PW Founder, kicking off our 20th anniversary
I like to spend time each week making things – especially art-like projects. My friends have often referred to me as an “artist”, but I’ve stopped labeling myself an “artist” because for me it’s a loaded term. But I do consider myself to be a creative person who lives a creative life. That life includes a wide variety of activities – inventing ways to make my life easier and more interesting, creative cooking, unconventional decoration, writing poetry (often not very good poetry), visual journaling, photography, undertaking many kinds of art-making, finding new uses for ordinary items and traveling to interesting places.

In 1993, after a varied career that included teaching, writing, consulting, financial marketing, and restaurant ownership, I embarked on a new journey in the arts. That fall I made my first book. I enjoyed the tactile experience of handling the paper and making stitches in it with needle and thread. I think of all the things I like to make, building one-of-a-kind artists’ books is the thing I most enjoy.

Making books was the beginning of an exciting journey. I became immersed in the study of art media and processes by taking classes with dozens of nationally know artists. I learned to love paint, collage, fiber, printmaking and working with metal. Now all those materials plus many more live in my studio where I can play with them whenever the muse calls me.

In Tucson I am probably best known as the founding president of “PaperWorks, The Sonoran Collective for Book and Paper Artists” which was established in January, 2001. It is now a flourishing arts organization of over 200 book and paper artists.

You can log on starting at 9:30. Our Social/Share time will be your chance to show what you've been creating this month. Have you received or created handmade cards? Have them handy to show us. If you have a treasured family item or heirloom that is part of your holiday display, we'd love to see it, and whatever art is in your life at the moment, have it nearby. Bobbie will continue to highlight our members' work featured on the website, to ask for announcements of art news and to introduce a studio tour. You are welcome to “speak up” - or send her a quick email to let her know you’d like to share something. (Wilsonbobbie@hotmail.com). Such fun to hear what our members have been up to!

Missed the December meeting but still want to see it?  Just click here to view the Dec 10, 2020, meeting on YouTube.