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Welcome to our new website! While the information is much the same, the aesthetics and layout have changed to keep pace with our expanding national scope and audience. Our thanks to the Green Door Studio for hosting our start-up efforts. For frequent visitors, you may wish to "bookmark" our new home page. While the Green Door Studio page can still get you here, you may prefer the more direct route.
We're getting excited about our upcoming Firehouse Gallery show (Burlington City Arts, February 20 - April 11). It will feature a traditional exhibit of Combat Paper art in the front gallery with a fully functioning paper making studio in the back. We hope the interactive format, of bringing the artist and the studio to the gallery, will expand the conversation about the Combat Paper Project. Saturday afternoon papermaking workshops are planned. Check back for more information as plans become finalized.
For a very thoughtful piece on the Combat Paper Project check out "Culture Warriors" in Jan Barry's December 15th blog. This isn't the usual 3 column inch story with a sound bite. He came to the Rutgers workshop, planning to visit the first day. He stayed for the week.
The New England Cable News (NECN.com) ran a December 6th video story about the Combat Paper Project, including interviews with Drew Cameron and Eli Wright while they were making combat paper at the Green Door Studio in Burlington, VT.
The December 1st Burlington Free Press ran a front page story about the Combat Paper Project and the process of making paper from combat uniforms.
On November 2nd, Fox News covered the Combat Paper Project at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Check out their video coverage, "Veterans Turn Uniforms into Paper".
More video coverage, "Turning Uniforms into Paper", comes from CBS affiliate KKTV which also reported on the Colorado Springs event.
An art review, "Show Goes Beyond Politics", from the October 30th Chicago Tribune critiques the Art of Democracy exhibit, giving honorable mention to the Combat Paper Portfolio.
From the October 9th Syracuse Post Standard comes this article, "ArtRage Gallery Opens". Combat Paper was the opening exhibit for ArtRage Gallery.
A September 19, 2008 article, "ARTS-US: Iraq War Vets Transforming Trauma" features the work of the Combat Paper and Warrior Writer Projects. It was published by The Inter Press Service (IPS), a global news agency, that offers an independent voice to an international community.
And another article, "Scars and Stripes", from the September 25th Boston Pheonix continues the Combat Paper story.
From the Mills College Newsroom comes this September 2008 article, "Mills College to Host Art Workshop for War Veterans" that features the upcoming visit of the Combat Paper Project to Mills in October. And a second article from the October 27th Mills campus newspaper, after the visit.
A Fall 2008 Tour of exhibits, institutional Combat Paper artist visits and workshops is in progress. If you wish to be included on our workshop tours, contact Drew Cameron for more information. Two tours are on the drawing board for Autumn of 2009; one through the mid-west/southern US and another across Canada.
Starting off our current Fall Tour are lectures at SUNY Plattsburgh and SUNY Potsdam, then we return to St. Lawrence University, where we first began our outreach papermaking workshops on Armistice Day, just last year. This visit includes a two-month long exhibit of work by combat papermakers in the Richard F. Brush Gallery, a veterans' papermaking workshop, public presentations and lectures about Art & Activism.
In the spring of 2008 several institutions hosted the Combat Paper Workshops, enabling the project to tour the country. Combat Papermakers from the Green Door Studio conducted the workshops as a means to connect with other Iraq War Veterans through the making of paper art. The primary focus of the spring tour was to train a team of Los Angeles veterans on how to make paper and conduct workshops, passing the torch from the east to the west coast.
A number of news articles have been written about the Combat Paper Project ...
A July 25, 2008 article, "War in Pieces: Combat Paper Project Sees Veterans Use Uniforms to Heal" features the work of the Combat Paper and Warrior Writer Projects on Martha's Vineyard.
A July 17, 2008 article, "Power with art: Iraq vets come to Island" features the work of the Combat Paper and Warrior Writer Projects on Martha's Vineyard.
In the Summer 2008 edition of Positive News, the article "Vets Find Healing Hope in Combat Paper Project" features the work of the Combat Paper.
The May 15, 2008 broadcast, "GRITtv with Laura Flanders" features the work of Sara Nesson and the Combat Paper and Warrior Writer Projects.
The May 11, 2008 Chicago Public Radio broadcast, "Art School Activism (Extended Conversation)" features the work of Drew Matott and the Combat Paper Project.
An April 22, 2008 Boston Globe article, "The power in their pain: Iraq war veterans create art to protest" features the work of the Combat Paper and Warrior Writer Projects.
In 2007 a series of pulp prints on Combat Paper was included in "Mutanabbi Street: An Exhibition of Broadsides" curated by Kathleen Walkup, Director of the Book Arts Program at Mills College displayed at the San Francisco Center for the Book, and showed in St. Louis at the Craft Alliance as part of "The Imbedded Image: Current Work in Hand Papermaking" exhibit curated by Tom Lang.
Combat Paper Portfolios have been added to the permanent collections at a number of libraries and universities; recent volumes have been purchased by the University of Cincinnati, University of Connecticut, Lafayette College, Western Carolina University, Temple University, Princeton University, the Boston Athenaeum and the Library of Congress. Our thanks to all the institutions who have purchased portflios.
On Armistice Day, 2007 St. Lawrence University hosted a Combat Paper Workshop, the first of our outreach efforts. |
