Workshops
Browse through all workshops that currently take place. We also provide information about future workshops and workshops from the past.
Artist Mentoring Sessions
United States
Event Dates
The workshop takes place from January 18, 2025 until December 31, 2025.
Workshop Initiator
Workshop Details
Karen Olson offers the following sessions for artists, creatives, or hobbyists. Long distance learning via Zoom by the hour. In-person options also available at her home in Maine.
• Creative Consulting
• Papermaking
• Paper Sculpture
• Printing on Fine Art Paper
• Project Planning
• Preparing for Submissions
• Preparing project statements or artist statements
For more information and to choose a time that is convenient for you visit Karen's website.
https://www.karenolsonphotography.com/mentoring-sessions
Contact information
Karen Olson
karen@karenolsonphotography.com
https://www.karenolsonphotography.com
@karenolson.photography
State of Play Visual Artist Residency Program - L'École de Papier
Mozambique
Event Dates
The workshop takes place from October 09, 2025 until October 08, 2026.
Workshop Initiator
Karishma Chugani Nankani
,
L'École de Papier
Workshop Details
State of Play offers artistic mentoring designed so that each participant can develop their own sustainable practice all while creating a personal project throughout the year.
It interweaves three intersecting and interconnected lines of work:
Cultivating curiosity and visual appetite «eye-petite” training the gaze and visual literacy. Working with constellation research processes, from intuition to organisation.
Engaging in manual and artisanal practices enables us to 'think with our hands,' thereby opening pathways to forms of intuitive knowledge.By entering a 'creative trance,' one can generate rapid, nonjudgmental images through experimental techniques that embrace error and invite surprise.
Granting space and permission to experiment, the sketchbook becomes both a vessel for an artistic practice and a sanctuary for the creative journey.
Application form and course prospectus are available as downloads on the IAPMA website below and below.
Further information:
https://lecoledepapier.com/state-of-play/
Contact information
Karishma Chugani Nankani
iam@karishmachugani.com
aplication-form-25-26-EDIT
PAPERMAKING WITH PLANTS & DRAWING IN THE DRESDEN BOTANICAL GARDEN
Germany
Event Dates
The workshop takes place from October 14, 2025 until October 16, 2025.
Workshop Initiator
Workshop Details
The workshops take place on October 14 and October 16, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Papermaking workshop details:
- Introduction into western papermaking
- Papermaking with cotton, hemp and recycled fibers
- Experimenting with floral embedding and relief prints
- Making paper with diverse autumn colours
Drawing workshop details:
- Introduction and walk around the Dresden Botanical Garden
@botanischer_garten_dresden
- Learning about drawing techniques, material and historical botanical
studies
- Drawing individual plant motifs
- Enjoying the autuum colours while drawing outdoors
Language: Course offered in German and English
Participant Limit: 5 per workshop
Contact information
Heike Berl
Email: mail@heike-berl.de
www.heike-berl.de
@elbe_paper
Online Course - Soft Sculptures - English
Argentina
Event Dates
The workshop takes place from October 30, 2025 until November 20, 2025.
Workshop Initiator
Workshop Details
In this online course with IAPMA member @silviaturbiner, participants are going to learn different weaving techniques, handmade paper from two to three dimensions and new materials to work with. Each session is designed to develop a relationship with natural materials. She will guide you through the process of weaving twigs, wire, chicken mesh, rattan and handmade paper into sculpture. Participants will twist, interlock and weave in multiple directions ; the works will appear to be simultaneously line and volume. The making process will become a kind of discovery.
During class, participants will watch, ask and debate. Between classes you will work with the techniques that you have watched.
Class limit 6 participants.
Suggested Materials:
A wooden frame (A4 is a good size)and nails. Tools are needed after the first session. Depending on your geographic location: wicker, vines, willow vines, palm inflorensces, wire, rope, chicken and bird mesh, cables, etc. Styrofoam moulds: spheres, cubes and foam rubber sheets. All sorts of wire: copper, brass or aluminum can be used. Kozo, corn, agave, abaca, cotton pulps and fibers and any handmade paper. You can buy your paper if you are not used to making it.
We are going to study Lidia Galego’s art work, Tsuguo Yanai´s, Miriam Londoño’s and Ellen Bacon’s installations and structures.
4 sessions, THURSDAYS beginning October 30th at 2:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Argentina time through Zoom.
The sessions will be be recorded.
Call or text to register via WhatsApp.
Silvia Turbiner
+5491136286167
Further information:
www.silviaturbiner.com
Contact information
silvia.turbiner@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +5491136286167 feel free to call or message me
Instagram: @silviaturbiner
Website: www.silviaturbiner.com
Creative Papermaking With Natural Colours
United Kingdom
Event Dates
The workshop takes place from November 16, 2025 until November 19, 2025.
Workshop Initiator
Workshop Details
Jane Ponsford will lead an exploration of colour in papermaking using natural inks/ dyes and pigments, including subtle colours from the beautiful autumn/ winter gardens at West Dean in Sussex, England.
Explore colour in papermaking using natural dyes and pigments, including some from the gardens at West Dean. Use traditional and accessible papermaking techniques with cotton pulp, then dye and stain your papers to make simple books or handmade paper.
The course will be taught by means of demonstrations and practical work, as well as individual attention to support your project. There will be information and handouts to allow you to take these skills further independently after the course. Participants will make paper traditionally using a Hollander beater and professional equipment, making and using cotton pulp to form sheets, but you will also explore more easily accessible techniques before experimenting with dyeing and dip-dyeing and making natural inks to mark and stain our paper.
At the end of the course, you will have made some beautiful sheets of paper, carefully considered artist books responding to natural colour and other two and three-dimensional handmade paper artworks. You will have experimented with papermaking and making and using natural dyes using a range of techniques and you will have gained and built upon skills to take further in your own work.
This course is particularly suitable for those with an interest in papermaking and fibre crafts in relation to landscape.
Suitable for all.
Booking Ref: Ref: S3D37544
Further information and registration:
https://www.westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/s3d37544-creative-papermaking-with-natural-colours
Contact information
West Dean
Nr Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 0QZ
Tel: +44 (0)1243 818300
Skies and Seascapes: a Papermaking Day Course with artist Jane Ponsford
United Kingdom
Event Dates
The workshop takes place from February 08, 2026 until February 08, 2026.
Workshop Initiator
Workshop Details
A creative papermaking workshop inspired by the experimental and gestural marks J.M.W. Turner employed in his plein-air sketches and seascapes.
Join artist-papermaker Jane Ponsford to learn traditional papermaking techniques and create your own handmade linen and cotton rag paper. Experiment with delicate tints and dramatic sweeps of colour, using a colour pallette inspired by Impressions in Watercolour: J. M. W. Turner and his Contemporaries.
Participants can keep these sample sheets as they are or bind them together using a simple bookbinding technique to make their own book of skies.
During the course of the day, participants will discuss the types of paper that Turner and his contemporaries used and the watercolour pigments that were available at the time. This will be used as a background for our own creative responses.
The course will be restricted to 15 people and taught by demonstration and individual intuition.
Useful to Know
This is a hands-on workshop using paper pulp, water and paint so please wear practical clothing and bring an apron. You will be using A4 and also smaller or improvised moulds and deckles and vats of pulp to form our sheets of paper.
At the end of the day, you will be able to take your work home. This may still be damp so please bring plastic bags. Any leftover linen and cotton rag pulp can be taken home if you would like, so a 500ml jar or ziplock bag might be useful.
There will be an hour lunch break where you could book into our restaurant Light, visit one of the cafes near to Towner or bring a packed lunch to eat by the sea.
Accessibility
A budget is available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include further interpretation services or other access arrangements we can meet to enable you to participate. If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.
Sunday, February 8, 2026, 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Studio 1
Further information and to register:
https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/skies-and-seascapes-sunday
Contact information
Towner Eastbourne
Devonshire Park, College Road
Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ
+44 (0) 1323434670
towner@townereastbourne.org.uk
CRONQUIST PAPER STUDIO
Latvia
Workshop Details
Papermaking from abaca, kozo, denim, cotton rug pulp. Pulp painting and other surface design techniques. 3D objects from abaca, recycled paper. Make your own paper for a book and learn bookbinding.
Please contact Ilze Dilane for details.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperceramicstudio/
Website:
http://ilzedilanesart.blogspot.com/
Contact information
Ilze Dilane
Cronquist Paper Studio
Riga
LATVIA
Phone +371 25 608 690
E-mail ilze.dilane@gmail.com
Fides Linien - Interdisciplinary Art Consulting
Germany
Workshop Details
During professional papermaking workshops, participants are introduced to the knowledge of hand papermaking. Different processes to work with various fibres, to create sheets, to work with paper pulp two- or three dimensionally are introduced. Several techniques to manipulate paper can be explored.
Fides provides individual and customized consulting, developing concrete projects at your location or in a rented location. Besides workshops, lectures and collaboration in interdisciplinary and innovative projects, she offers promotional- and (self-) marketing solutions.
Further information:
www.fideslinien.com
Contact information
Fides Linien
art@fideslinien.com
Instagram: @fideslinen
DIEU DONNÉ - TOURS AND WORKSHOPS
United States
Workshop Details
Dieu Donné offers a variety of unique hands-on educational opportunities for adults and children that can be held on-site in our studio or at off-site locations. Educational programs are adaptable for various age groups and circumstances, including school field trips, professional development, community organizations, and more.
Participants learn about the papermaking process—from the history of papermaking to the role handmade paper plays in the contemporary arts—and experiment with creative techniques to create original works of art. Our tactile programs, taught by working artists and educators, provide access to a rare and venerable artistic medium, and give participants an opportunity to experience a complete cycle of creation, from pulp to final project. Programs range from introductory classes to follow-up workshops in specialized techniques.
Website:
https://www.dieudonne.org/tours-and-workshops
Contact information
Dieu Donné
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Building 3, Suite 602
63 Flushing Ave, Unit 112
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Phone +1 212-226-0573
E-mail dieudonne@dieudonne.org
The Paper Academy
Denmark
Workshop Initiator
Workshop Details
For workshop offerings in 2025 please visit
https://www.paperacademy.dk/the-paper-academy-uk/
Contact information
annevilsboll@gmail.dk
Claudia Lee - Papermaking, Box-making, and Decorative Paper Workshops
United States
Workshop Details
Students interested in coming to the studio can design a custom workshop or sign up for a group workshop. For a complete list of classes to be held at Liberty Paper as well as workshops at other locations, please visit my website.
Website: http://www.claudialeepaper.com
Contact information
Claudia Lee
libertypapermaking@gmail.com
CAMIGRAPHIE EXPRESSIVE
France
Workshop Details
« Papier de plantes, effets d'eau et de motifs » / "Paper of plants and water marks"
« Fibres à papier, empreintes et marques en reliefs » / "Paper of plants and relief print"
« De la feuille au livre » / "From leaves to book"
« Papier de plantes et teintures végétales » / "Paper of plants and végétable dyes"
« Herbier de Méditerranée » / "Herbarium of Méditerrannée"
« Volume et lumière en dentelles végétales » /"volume and lights in vegetable lacies"
Website for workshops:
www.camigraphie.org
Contact information
Aïdée Bernard
20 rue du Lirou
34620 Puisserguier
FRANCE
Phone +33 619636216
Website www.aidee-bernard.com
E-mail a.idee.bernard@gmail.com