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Staff Pick of the Week: Peace Paper Project manuscript collection

Are you interested in art and activism? 

Are you interested in art as a form of trauma therapy?

Do you love learning about projects that bring communities together in collaborative creation?

Then come check out the Peace Paper Project archives held in the Special Collections department! We’ve been collecting the work of this organization for years and now have a handy-dandy finding aid to help our researchers navigate this ever-growing collection! I had the opportunity to get to know this collection rather intimately as I began processing it and preparing the finding aid over the summer months. Despite having handled just about every piece, I somehow manage to see and feel something new every time I return to it.  

Shown above are selections from some of the materials still in process: primarily the Riots, Revolts, and Revolutions series as well as artwork crated by Peace Paper founder Drew Matott in response to a series of Veteran Paper Workshops while doing an artist residency at Fresh Press (University of Illinois) in 2013. The handmade paper is made from clothing and the printing is done both with wood type and pulp printing (a method that merges screen printing and stencil spray art).

We encourage our followers to check out both our finding aid for the collection and most especially the website for the Peace Paper Project to learn more. And, since this collection continues to grow, you might find new treasures added to the collection and its finding aid every few months!

En garde hahahaha

(He’s holding a Muji pen refill because I was having a hard time getting the sword hilt to squeeze into his hand and then I was like who cares, this fits)

I preordered this Mikazuki Munechika figure like a year ago and he’s finally here! I don't follow Touken Ranbu, but I was really impressed by his Heian era-inspired design - and I was super impressed by the production values of his previous 1/8 figure that I saw when I was in Tokyo last fall. IMO what pushed it over the edge is the full texture on his robes - the fabric actually resembles draped shining silk in the light.

Because of my near-total ignorance of the series and only tiny bit better knowledge of the actual historical artifact he's supposed to personify, I started jokingly referring to the figure as "Moon Moon" because he's supposed to be the Heian tachi Mikazuki (crescent moon) by the swordsmith Sanjou Kokaji Munechika and you all know the Moon Moon meme I'm sure. This amused @atorier so much that every so often she'd ask "Is Moon Moon here yet?" and helped me to remember I had ordered this. Well he's here now!

Also we should take a moment to appreciate THE BOX HE COMES IN. Moon-shaped window die-cuts! Gold and holographic foil! And my favourite, spot gloss which not only adds visual and tactile contrast between the matte background kimono fabric pattern and the photos of the figure, but is also used in a blind application to create subtle water patterns behind the flower petals at the base of the box!!!! OOoooooh.

Dekel Baehr, Israeli, born 1991

Foreign Body You’re Not Dreaming 2016 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Jewelry and Fashion department Graduate Exhibition

In the words of the artist: “The inspiration for my final project is my repeating nightmares. In my dreams I see haunted women whose private spaces are invaded. These women strive constantly to regain their control over their lives and bodies. The collection creates a hybridization between the pure untouched bodies to the foreign body that takes over. In a free and intuitive style, I created enormous volumes that inhale the human body. I made layered textures that simulate veins, vessels and fats. These threatening silhouettes are displayed in quiet and harmonious hues which bring peace to my chaotic psyche.”

Item: 68572

Spotlight: Drew Matott presenting at Artists Now! 

A week ago we posted about the Peace Paper Project manuscript collection for which we have a new finding aid. Now, students and the local community can come learn more about the project from co-founder Drew Matott by attending the UWM Peck School of the Art’s Artists Now! lecture series. Artists Now! is held every Wednesday evening at Arts Center Lecture Hall on the UW-Milwaukee campus.

Drew Matott will be presenting on November 6th from 7:30 - 9 pm. The best part is, the lecture is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Click HERE for more info!

Presented today for this post are a number workshop samples from 2018, including silk aquatints on paper made from refugee clothing in Germany by Drew and Kevin Matott, as well as prints on handmade paper from workshops held at the Harburg and Bergdor Refugee Camps in Germany. The originals can be found in box 4, folders 2 and 3 of the Peace Paper Project Records (UWM Manuscript Collection 358). 

We hope to see you at the lecture!

Narrative of the Senses

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Anne Moore is a printmaker specialising in monotypes. Monotypes, as the name suggests, are singular prints which are not repeatable; each one is unique.

I came across Artsy Shark’s write-up about Anne Moore last week, and my interest was piqued enough for me to find out more about Anne’s wonderful and fascinating work. I particularly love Anne’s use of scribbled text using her own invented…