End Paper: Handmade Paper and Paper-Pulp Painting with Lisa Pearce

In this workshop students learn to pull sheets of handmade paper and create paper-pulp paintings using a variety of different colored pulp using recycled paper. Each step of the papermaking process is demonstrated, while a bit of the science and history of paper is shared. You’ll leave with multiple sheets of paper that you can later draw or paint on or use to make journals as well as at least one paper-pulp painting.

About the instructor
Lisa F. Pearce has been teaching art in public schools, museums, and at the college level since 1993. She holds an MFA in sculpture and an MEd in art education, with further studies at Penland School of Craft, Bullseye Glass, Tin City Glass, John C. Campbell Folk School, and the Corning Museum of Glass. She is an exhibiting mixed-media artist and artist member of Artspace and has held numerous board positions with the NC Art Education Association and is a past president and current member of Tri State Sculptors Association. Her artwork primarily encompasses cast or fused glass, ceramics, metalwork, as well as other media. She has created public artwork for the NC Department of Public Instruction and tactile art for the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, Olds Elementary, and Meredith College. In her studio classes, she brings unique techniques and media that challenge and empower students’ sense of themselves as creative and critical thinkers.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist