Wall Street Journal Discusses Handmade Paper Works

I got an email from Dieu Donné today with a link to an article in Friday's Wall Street Journal (Dieu Donné is a non-profit non-profit artist workspace dedicated to the creation, promotion, and preservation of contemporary art in the hand papermaking process.)  Stay tuned for more about Dieu Donné in a later post.

The article was interesting from several perspectives.  It featured some nifty manipulated paper pulp works by Chuck Close (we're big fans) Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly and Kiki Smith.  The article discussed artists' works on handmade paper as a more affordable way to acquire unique or semi-unique pieces by top artists.  I was surprised though that the article suggested that some critics consider these paper works to be "crafts".  (And Chuck Close was quoted as saying that artists refer to the term as "the C word".)