MANON SAUVAGE
News - Projects - Exhibitions
2022 NAHP Members’ Showcase Exhibition
"Activating Materials"
Annual Members' Showcase Exhibition of The North American Hand Papermakers
This year, members were asked to respond to the 2022 conference-related theme, Activating Materials
"The Forest: Precious And Fragile" (2022)
Detail of "Quality Time With My Loved Ones" (2020)
2022
International Collective Art and Nature investigation : “Que otras historias Podemos contar”, Almacen de Arte Gallery, Argentina.
"ALMACÉN |arte contemporáneo|
Es una Galería que apoya su profesionalización en la investigación, proyección, producción, difusión y comercialización de obras, de los artistas que representa e invitados. Quienes conforman ALMACÉN trabajan sobre tres lineamientos que la galería tiene como ejes fundamentales: la preservación del medio ambiente, la reutilización y resignificación de materiales y el respeto por la memoria personal y colectiva.
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¿Qué otras historias podemos contar? Es una extensión del trabajo de los artistas de la galería que busca generar una investigación colectiva y nuevos vínculos y lazos que promuevan la producción de obras contemporáneas bajo los lineamientos de la naturaleza y el territorio que habitamos."
(From ALMACÉN |arte contemporáneo| website)
2019 - 2023
Handmade Paper and Fibers from Local Plants Project
Finca Colibri,
Puerto Rico
Handmade Paper and Fibers from Local Plants Project (Finca Colibri, Puerto Rico)
Making handmade paper with fibers of plants growing in Finca Colibri (yagrumo, chucho, hierba, guineo, majagua, pina). Using raw fibers to make threads and weaving those fibers (with majagua and guineo fibers). Using medicinal plants to dye papers and threads. Creation of artworks, outside installations and producing photographs of the artwork in dialogue with the environment.
2020 International Handmade Paper Swatch Swap Yearbook
21st Edition
2020 International Handmade Paper Swatch Swap Yearbook:
105 copies, over 135 unique samples of handmade paper, by 82 participants from 23 countries, indices by fiber, region, technique, additives. A spread might have highly expert professional craft next to very fresh hobby exploration, then classic fiber work side-by-side of one-shot experiments, each accompanied by a recipe and comments by the papermaker.
2020 NAHP Juried Exhibition
“Materiality: Hand Papermaking in the Age
of Isolation”
2020 NAHP Juried Exhibition “Materiality: Hand Papermaking in the Age of Isolation”:
Materiality is comprised of artists utilizing hand papermaking techniques or working with handmade paper, investigating the concepts of transition and change that are so inherent in the creation of paper and paper arts. The esteemed jurors for the first NAHP Juried Exhibition are Fabiola Jean-Louis, Hong Hong, and Anne McKeownsy.
"This artwork is a sacred tiny part of the tropical forest in the Caribbean, supporting and protecting me through difficult periods"
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Manon Sauvage
Natural fibers, seeds and handmade papers from local plants
18" x 18" x .25"
2020
Memberships
NAHP - North American Hand Papermakers
"Through its annual meetings, exhibitions, and publications, North American Hand Papermakers provides a forum for exchanging information, craft, history, science, and technology of papermaking and related crafts which captured the imagination of Dard Hunter (1883-1966). NAHP encourages the study of paper and papermaking, paper artistry, preservation of historical sites and artifacts, conservation, and scientific and technical research.
NAHP's activities are intended to serve as a conduit between artists, scientists, historians, and other practitioners and researchers in the discipline. Our meetings connect current and historical practice. Our exhibitions are intended to convey to the public the diverse and wide-ranging endeavors that comprises the field of hand papermaking. The collected artifacts, books, archives, and other materials, which were formerly called the Dard Hunter Paper Museum (now called the Dard Hunter Collection), form the core collection of the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum in Atlanta, Ga. Promoting interest in the collection as an important part of the world's cultural heritage is central to our purpose" (NAHP Mission from NAHP website)
IAPMA - International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists
The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) is the world leading organisation for paper artists. It was founded in 1986 in Düren, Germany, when paper as an art medium was far less well-known than it is today. While paper history and production are one facet of the Association's activities, the central focus is to promote paper and handmade paper as a contemporary artistic medium.
The Association's main objective is to facilitate an international exchange of artistic ideas and share information about hand papermaking and paper art. IAPMA aims to provide the opportunity for members to work together, collaborate on artistic projects and exhibitions, share solutions to technical problems, explore different paper-related cultural backgrounds, and encourage new approaches to paper arts. To this end, each year one Bulletin and six newsletters are produced: the newsletters provide information about exhibitions, publications, projects and techniques involving paper; the Bulletins are professionally produced magazines with handmade paper covers and sample papers which feature individual artists, papermakers and their ideas. All members are invited to share information with other members through the newsletters and Bulletins.