Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Craft Research Fund—Exhibition Grant

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2023

Paper Is People: Challenging Colonial Definitions of Paper

"Paper Is People: Challenging Colonial Definitions of Paper" is an exhibition that opens a conversation around what paper is across cultures, through indigenous and oral traditions in the U.S. and in a global context. This is the first exhibition of its kind to reimagine and decolonize the practice of papermaking.

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Minneapolis, MN

$13,500

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Selected works

Alisa Banks, Lineage Size: 64 in. H x 63 in. Media: Synthetics, silk, thread, machine and hand sewn Image courtesy of the Artist

Radha Pandey, Jaali (2022) Size: 15.7 in. x 15.7 in. closed, 22.5 in. x 25.5 in. open Media: Handcut kozo on handmade cotton and machine made papers, thread Image courtesy of the Artist

Aimee Lee, Indigenous (2016) Size: 22 in. x 13 in. Media: Pencil and persimmon dye on hanji, woven hanju buttons, thread. Private collection Image courtesy of the Artist