Papermaking by Hand in India

Date
Apr 24, 2018, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
Jones Hall Room 100
Audience
Free and Open to the Public

Speaker

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Event Description

Radha Pandey is a papermaker and letterpress printer. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has studied Western and Asian Papermaking techniques with Timothy Barrett and teaches book arts classes in India and the US.

Her interest in the history of papermaking led her to research creating stop-motion animations using watermarks. Her expertise also includes traditional textile hand-printing in India, and stop-motion animations in paper. Her artists books are held in 37 public collections including the Library of Congress and Yale University. Her graduate thesis work, titled Anatomia Botanica won the MICA Book Award at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair in 2014.

For more information on Radha Pandey, please visit her website.

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Presented by Princeton Geniza Lab and the Princeton Public Lectures Committee.