Dr. Kimberly Diana Jacobs, places the African American artists featured in the Clark Atlanta University collection and the Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran into the context of 20th Century Art History. This lecture is in relation to our new changing exhibition A Community of Artists: African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, which showcases fifty noted 20th century American artists. Collected and curated by Wes and Missy Cochran, the Robert C.

Join Jasmine Wilson, Temporary Exhibitions Curator for the Spelman Museum, as she discusses some of the female artists featured both in Spelman's Fine Art Collection and the African American Works on Paper Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran. This lecture is in relation to our new changing exhibition A Community of Artists: African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, which showcases fifty noted 20th century American artists.

Join us for this virtual lecture with Atlanta based printmaker, Jamaal Barber, who will be discussing  the key role of master printers and printshops as community builders and creative collaborators. This talk is in relation to our new changing exhibition A Community of Artists: African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, which showcases fifty noted 20th century American artists. Collected and curated by Wes and Missy Cochran, the Robert C.

Dr. Oh-Kyu Lee will share his experience in rediscovering how to make certain types of Korean traditional paper called Hanji. In the past, there were more than two hundreds varieties of Hanji, which varied depending on source materials, size, usage, etc. Only a few of them are still being produced in Korea today. The topic of Dr. Lee’s talk will focus on two types of Korean traditional paper, named Taeji and Siji.

Alison Valk, Instructional Coordinator and Multimedia Librarian for Georgia Tech Library, provides instruction on the basics of using iMovie to transform photos or video into stop motion movies with interesting effects.

Wondering about your animation career path? Come get some insight from multi-talented artist Vinod Krishnan, technical animation director at Disney who chased his dreams from Bahrain all the way to LA. Vinod has worked on a variety of projects from Avengers: Endgame, the Owl House, Disney's Amphibia, The Venture Bros, Rick and Morty, Black-ish, Grace and Frankie and is also active as a Wacom Artist Representative, Studio committee member at SIGGRAPH, as well as a part of ASIFA-South's business department committee member. 

The team behind “This is Not a War Story,” which is currently airing on HBOMax, is working with the paper museum on this joint program. This film is a collaboration with combat veterans affiliated with Frontline Arts who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia and elsewhere. These veterans create handmade paper from their military uniforms, utilizing a broad range of visual art media and creative writing to communicate about their military experiences.

Join us for this virtual Lecture, Stitch, dye, sculpt, fly - the endless versatility of Washi,  with guest speaker Nanci Jacobi. Washi means Japanese paper - Wa = Japanese and shi = paper. Jacobi’s love of Washi and its history led her to establish the Japanese Paper Place, in Toronto Ontario. The Japanese Paper Place is a major distributor of washi.

What is material science engineering? What is a bioproduct and what makes it renewable?  Hear from Georgia Tech material scientists about how paper, fiber, and pulp are on the cutting-edge of today’s manufacturing economy. Join Renewable Bioproducts Institute faculty Meisha Shofner, Chris Muhlstein, and Mark Losego as they share about their work with fibers and what the future of bioproducts might look like.

Fast Film Fest 2022 is the fourth year of the stop motion animation festival sponsored by the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in partnership with ASIFA-South and the GA Tech Libraries. People of all ages and skills were invited to create films that are 5 minutes or less in length and that address the theme, Press Start. Check out the juried selected submissions, meet our jurors, and cast your vote for People's Choice during the Fast Film Fest 2022 Screening.