Co-founder of Combat Paper, a collaborative artmaking project, Cameron will host a free public lecture 6-7 p.m., Sept. 8, at Wrench Auditorium in Memorial Union. He also will host several Combat Paper workshops while on campus. During these workshops, participants transform military uniforms into handmade paper. 

SCULPTURE STUDIO, RAMAPO COLLEGE

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2-6 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 10-1 PM

PARTICIPANTS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ARE WELCOME!
COMBAT PAPER MAKES FASCINATING ART FROM TRANSFORMED MILITARY UNIFORMS.

If you are interested in attending or participating, please send an email with your contact info to

sjenkins@ramapo.edu

The Sculpture Studio is located across Route 202 from the main campus, next to the ball field. Because the process involves wet paper pulp, please don’t wear fancy clothes.

Combat Paper is represented in the provocative Ramapo College exhibition The Masculinity Project (Incomplete) which is on view through April 4th in the Berrie Center Kresge and Pascal Galleries.

An unusual group exhibition featuring various approaches to the topic of masculinity, including: Media representations and stereotypes, non-binary matters, “Bro Culture” and Greek Life, military ideals, fatherhood, toxic masculinity, male beauty and the Female Gaze.

Join us for this unique two-day paper-making workshop with Drew Cameron, of Combat Paper, in the historic Wiggin Gallery.

Project Art is committed to providing an environment that promotes healing, shaped by a robust offering of art exhibitions and performances. Art enriches and revitalizes the lives of our patients and visitors, reducing the stress and anxiety often associated with healthcare settings.

Tasmeem Doha is an international, biennial art and design conference hosted and organized by VCUarts Qatar since 2004. Each edition of Tasmeem Doha highlights a unique and contemporary theme within art and design, exploring novel concepts, methods, and applications, and engaging in critical discussions. Much of the  event is open to the public, with attendees and participants consisting of international designers, artists, academics, students, industry professionals, and the local community.

Fabric Papermaking Demo with Drew Cameron
Thursday, October 12: 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Grinnell Arts Center Front Lawn

Bring your used clothing, military uniforms, sheets, dishtowels or old blue jeans and be a part of a spring theatre production! Dirty, stained or torn; all natural fabrics (think cotton) welcome! Collection bin located in the Arts Center lobby.

Veteran artist Drew Cameron of Combat Paper will visit Grinnell next week to collaborate with Grinnell College professor Jen Shook, creating paper out of used clothing and fabric collected from the community. This paper will be used to create sets for Jen's spring production, Songs of Scarlet & Wayback, drawn from the community archives. Email shookjen@grinnell.edu for more information.

Combat Paper® is a hand papermaking workshop facilitated by artist and Iraq War veteran Drew Francis Cameron that teaches people to make paper from United States military uniforms.

This series of workshops is supported by:

Department of Art, Art History, and Design

UNF Military and Veterans Resource Center

Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated, medium-driven fair, returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 during September 2023’s Armory Art Week with 100 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. The fair’s ninth edition will showcase unique and powerful projects curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, with a focus on can’t-miss performances highlighting the creative potential of paper.

Pulp Printing in Handmade Paper course at Paper & Book Intensive 2023. Paper and Book Inten­sive is an annual work­ing sab­bat­i­cal in the book arts, paper­mak­ing, and con­ser­va­tion for sea­soned prac­ti­tion­ers and moti­vated begin­ners. For more than thirty years, par­tic­i­pants have gath­ered together from around the world for two weeks of daily work­shops to pro­mote unusual lev­els of exchange, knowl­edge and inspi­ra­tion.

https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/

Inspired by the powerful artwork of Indigenous and Native American artists responding to the US “Indian Wars” and artists of the Greater Middle East reacting to the “Global War on Terror,” the second Veteran Art Triennial & Summit focus on how these artistic responses complicate and entangle with the artistic practices of veterans. The featured artworks, projects, and programs create opportunities for people to deepen their understanding of the impact of war.

The project begins with a virtual scholarly seminar series at the nexus of critical ethnic studies, Native/Indigenous studies, and Middle Eastern Studies on the histories and futures of Native rebellion alongside contemporary US militarism and warfare. The project culminates in the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit, in Spring 2023, at the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and Newberry Library.

SURVIVING THE LONG WARS is organized by Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Joseph Lefthand, and Amber Zora with support from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Institute for the Humanities Innovation Grant, UIC Award for Creative Activity, Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Newberry Library, DEMIL Art Fund, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experiences of War Grant. NEH Veteran Fellows include Gina Herrera, Monty Little, Gerald Sheffield, Anthony Torres, Eric Perez, and Natasha Erskine.

Special thanks to the Disability Cultural Center, the Native American Support Program, and the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center at UIC.

https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/

O Say Can You See
November 4 – December 17, 2022,
Gallery Hall, Marketview Arts (downtown)
First Friday Reception: November 4, 5:00 PM, Marketview Arts

“Themes of valor and sacrifice, common to Veterans Day events, are complicated by expressions of grief, confusion, anger, and remorse in this exhibition of artwork by combat veterans, whose experiences at war and upon returning home sometimes leave them wondering what it was all for.”

ABC Letters by Hans Friedrich Grohs ©️Frauken Grohs Collinson - Grohs Collection Trust

Pigmented Pulp Print on Combat Paper

11 in x 14 in

Edition of 25

2021

Bundle of five individual handmade sheets of paper from military uniforms. These 11 x 14 inch sheets vary in tone, texture and weight and are produced throughout the year. Custom orders also available.

This important exhibition seeks to provide education about PTSD – the history and current thoughts on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – along with the primary goal of offering ideas and workshops to Veterans and families that may help them with their personal PTSD journeys.

Healing through art has been established as an effective means of allowing a Veteran (or civilian) to express their thoughts and experiences through a creative process, thus encouraging them to be more open to sharing their experiences with fellow Veterans and loved ones. Healing through art also allows the viewer, even civilian viewers, to better see and understand the complex depths of thought and emotion that veterans managing PTSD are experiencing.

Al Mudhif – A Confluence is an outdoor art installation by Sarah Kavage & Yaroub Al-Obaidi and an accompanying gallery exhibition at the Schuylkill Center that explore notions of belonging and healing amidst the current moment of careful reconnection. Al Mudhif provides a welcoming space for intercultural encounters at the Schuylkill Center that equally offers a critical perspective on global migration of plants and people.

24 June – 31 October 2021

Curated by Tina Plokarz

The installation Al Mudhif is accompanied by a communal exhibition in the Visitor Center reflecting on belonging and sanctuary. Through the lenses of creative voices of art and activism, war experience, and indigenous resilience from Iraq to the Delaware River watershed, the exhibition offers a place for reconciliation across cultures and countries. The exhibition features artworks by Drew Cameron of Combat Paper, Meridel Rubenstein, art collective Justseeds, Tailinh Agoyo, Tchin; audio recordings by U.S. veterans, Iraqis, and Native Americans reflecting on war and sanctuary (including Moral Injury of War project); and documentary photography by Rob Zverina, Sarah Kavage, and Raad Habeeb Al Asadi, and other participants during Al Mudhif’s construction.

The annual PS1 art auction features diverse work by over 50 artists and supports PS1’s year-round programming and resources.