White Mountain National Forest Artist in Residence May Babcock is a paper maker and visual artist. Join her in making paper from plants harvested from the WMNF earlier this summer. This hands-on event is free and open to the public. All ages are encouraged to attend.
Read MoreJoin White Mountain National Forest Artist in Residence May Babcock and Marianne Leberman of the WMNF on an easy, beautiful walk to harvest plants while learning about forest ecology and the process of paper-making. Free and open to the public.
Read MoreMay Babcock, a papermaker and multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, has been selected as the White Mountain National Forest Artist in Residence for 2019.
Read MoreThe Friends of Dard Hunter is an organization in the United States that connects, encourages, and educates anyone interested in hand papermaking.
Read MoreComing September 30, 2019 thru January 27, 2020 at the GREEN SPACE Gallery at T.F. Green Airport, 2000 Post Rd., Warwick RI.
Read MoreReSeeding invites multi-generational artists, academics, designers, urban planners, botanists, mycologists, and herbalists—drawing from indigenous, cross-cultural and Western knowledge traditions—to exchange perspectives on the entwined lives of humans, plants, and other life forms in the urban spaces of Providence and New England.
Read MoreALL are invited out to the East Bay Bike Path on September 28th, 2019 from 12pm to 4pm. Paint, draw, dance, write, sing, CREATE. There will be stations along the path but feel free to bring your own to make and/or share your art.
Read MoreProvidence – City of Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism invite you to visit the Gallery at City Hall for its newest installation, Invasive Beauty New Works by PVDFest Public Art alumni May Babcock and Rebecca Volynsky.
Read MoreWorld's Fair Gallery is pleased to present HOT HOUSE, a pop-up gallery and residency at 233 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island. Welcome spring with a radiant collection of works on paper, paintings, and dimensional work by Providence based artists inspired by all things botanical.
Read MorePaper is a staple that has been utilized by humans for centuries. It is a social and economic tool for preserving the past, recording the present and looking into the future. Pulp + Process will display a variety of paper-made works ranging from stunning cut paper to charming miniatures.
Read MoreEbb and Flow VI is on view as part of unLOCK: Merging Art and Industry in Downtown Lockport, an NEA Our Town project where Megan Singleton and I were selected public artists.
Read MoreThis past August, I completed a week-long Artist in Residence program with the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation where I hiked, drew, identified plant species, and made handmade paper on site from responsibly collected materials.
Read MoreFinally, I’m sharing these photos! This past spring and fall, I had the pleasure of teaching a few papermaking workshops at Snow Farm Craft Program, at their beautiful New England campus located in Williamsburg, Massachusetts (I highly recommend taking a workshop there, if you can!).
Read MoreFor the month of August, I was invited to install a site-specific papermaking installation at Sprout Gallery. Sprout is a cool co-working space, located in Rising Sun Mills in Providence, Rhode Island.
Read MoreIt’s a wonderful thing to come upon a new papermaking technique in your studio, and then have the opportunity to share it with other artists.
This summer and last summer, I’ve taught ‘Pulptypes: Hybrid Papermaking and Printmaking’ at Women’s Studio Workshop, located in New York’s Hudson Valley region. Their Summer Art Institute program invites instructors to teach week-long intensives in their beautiful paper and print studios.
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