This past November/December, we made Speckletone cotton paper for holiday cards created by Lacey Shoman at lefield notes!
New 2018 piece "Drinking Horn" (6x6") on Fresh Press paper by D.R. White. Visit his etsy shop to see more of his work on our paper!
Illinois artist Emma Sielaff recently used some of our pink flower paper to create this awareness image about water conservation.
In 2015, Maggie Wierzchucki asked us to help her make coffee-infused paper for her fictitious "First Sip" coffee house. She made beautiful packaging, menus, and prints.
During her time in the studio, she made this fun music video!
In 2015 we opened our studio to Bella Reinhofer who made a seed-based paper for her "Rustic Charm" brand of candles and soap. They are definitely gorgeous!
We recently worked with artist and designer Anastasia Tumanova from We Are Clay to screen print her recent work "Flourishing Female" on some of our miscanthus grass paper. The results were great and Anastasia had this to say about our paper:
"I screen printed a series of posters on Fresh Press cotton and oatmeal papers. I was already excited that I was printing on recycled paper, helping conserve resources and save the planet one print at a time. I was even more excited with the results. The ink sat beautifully on the beautiful flecked paper. It's thick and feels higher quality than store bought paper. I can't wait to print with it again!"
"40 Hour Dollar," 6x11x5" (2015) by Karen Spiering
In 2015, we opened our studio to University of Illinois MFA Studio artist Karen Spiering, whose "life and work revolves around deep place knowing and the pursuit of stronger connections to the land/earth." After being trained on the equipment, she brought in old burlap bags to recycle into paper. We had never experimented with burlap as a material before, but allowed Karen to explore the material in our studio. The results were gorgeous. Karen made multiple "brown lunch bags" that were displayed both folded and stacked (on a pedestal) and opened and on the floor of the gallery.