Paper Arts Bulletin

Just a quick post about upcoming workshops: The San Francisco Studio School will hold a weekend mixed media workshop, "The Art of Collage," July 28-29, 2012.  Go here for details. The 10th anniversary of ScrapFest from Archiver's  is scheduled for the weekend of September 14-16, 2012 at the Mall of America in Minnesota.  Sign up for crops begins on July 25th.  Registration for workshops begins August 1st.  Create-It workshops will be from October Afternoon, Jillibean Soup, Fancy Pants Designs, and other well-know scrapbooking companies.  Like the mall itself, this event will be huge.  Over 50 popular scrapbooking and stamping companies will be represented at ScrapFest, including Hampton Art, Basic Grey, and 7 Gypsies.  Go here for details.  Fiber artist Wen Redmond will offer three workshops for the York Art Association in York, Maine.  The workshops are scheduled for August 20-22, 2012. Register online here .  The workshop...

From Peter Brook at Wired.com  comes a story about artist Monica Haller and the Veterans Book Project.  Ms. Haller holds bookmaking workshops where veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars create books—and thus, share their stories—from their photographs.   She plans to have 50 completed books in the Veterans Book Project library by the fall of 2013.  According to the story, Ms. Haller will take the collection to "galleries, reading rooms and community spaces all over the world."  The Nomas Foundation in Rome has already held an exhibition.  This is not the sort of scrapbooking project I usually write about, but the communicative and healing power of creativity cannot be underestimated.  For more information, please go to the website for the project.