Awards & Residencies

2024
Oak Spring Garden Foundation Perennial Residency (forthcoming)
2023
CERF+ Get Ready Grant
Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective Member Project Grant
2022
North American Hand Papermakers Hall of Papermaking Champions designee
Oak Spring Garden Foundation Alumni Residency
2021
SPACES Satellite Fund Grant (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)
Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (South Korea)
2020
Oak Spring Garden Foundation Artist in Residence
SPACES Emergency Relief Grant (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts regrant)
Oak Spring Garden Foundation COVID-19 Artist Response Program
2019
Ohio Arts Council Heritage Fellowship
Allen Memorial Art Museum Artist-in-Residence, Oberlin College
2017
Philip C. Curtis Artist-in-Residence, Albion College
2016–2018
Craft Research Fund Project Grant, The Center for Craft
2015
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Open Studio Residency
2014
American Folklore Society Professional Development Program
John Anson Kittredge Fund Artist Grant
Morgan Conservatory Artist-in-Residence (funded by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture)
2013
c3:initiative artist-in-residence
2012
Friends of Dard Hunter Scholarship
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency
2011
New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend (also 2009, 2007, 2010)
Oberlin College Outstanding Young Alumni Award
2010
Saltonstall Arts Colony Residency
Flaxart International Residency
2009
Weir Farm Trust Art Center Residency
Korea Fulbright Foundation Scholarship
2008–2009
Fulbright Fellowship, Design (South Korea)
2008
Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship
2007
Jentel Artist Residency / Ragdale Residency / Vermont Studio Center Residency
Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology, Michoacán, Mexico
Puffin Foundation Grant
2006
Art Farm Residency
2006-2003
Helen Fong Dare Scholarship
Albert P. Weisman Scholarship
Getz Graduate Award
Caxton Club Graduate Student Fellowship
Oberlin College Alumni Graduate Award

Residency Photo Albums

Knitting on the farm

The myriad options for knitwear, knit books, knit paper, and so on.

Knit paper

Papermaking on the farm

Papermaking from scratch in Nebraska, 2006.

harvesting

Art at Ox-Bow

What I made in Michigan (2006 summer)

Scrapped books

Jentel: Papermaking

Making paper in the studio from local plants and anything else I can get my hands on.

Sagebrush harvest #1

Papermaking in Mexico

Lily and maize papermaking at Guapamacataro in Michoacan, Mexico, on a two-week residency in July 2007.

Lily paper

Jentel: Art & Studios

Art in progress at the Winter studio. In total, four artist studios named after the four seasons are located in a single building. A single window per studio and oodles of wall space.

Potato alphabet

Ragdale March 2007

Scenes from an idyllic two-week residency at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Artwork interspersed.

Friends Studio

Fiber on the road

Selection of images that involve fiber art made while traveling, from Michigan to Nebraska to Vermont to Japan to Illinois to Mexico to Wyoming and back home to New York. July 2006 – February 2008.

Lily papermaking

Weir Farm residency artwork

Samples of artwork made at Weir Farm National Historic Site on a residency program in August 2009.

The possibilities for a heart

Weir Farm studio shots

A month at an artist residency program at the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut. The studio is in the attic/2nd floor of the cottage formerly used by the farm’s caretaker. I was working almost exclusively with hanji (Korean handmade paper). August 2009.

Tearing greased hanji

Saltonstall studio and artwork

Artwork made in the gorgeous top-floor studio of the Saltonstall Arts Colony’s carriage house. I worked mostly in paper, and mostly in hanji, and also recycled a ton of older work into new pieces. September 2010.

THE mt

Papermaking at Saltonstall

Papermaking, mostly from Ithaca milkweed, in upstate NY, 2010.

Milkweed paper

Belfast Studio

Studio shots in Belfast during a 2-month residency at Flaxart Studios. April – May/June, 2010.

Corporation Street

Summer at the Morgan

An artist residency at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. I made a hanji studio to teach Korean papermaking, taught interns, and had a fantastic place to work and play. July-August 2010.

Eleanor cleans up the ink

Santa Fe studio 2012

Three months making art at the Santa Fe Art Institute, May – July 2012.

First nest

Haystack Open Studio Residency 2015

10 working days in Deer Isle, Maine at the Haystack Mt. School of Crafts Open Studio Residency. The first half of June was rainy, cold, and windy, but ideal for hunkering down in the studio(s) in the company of other fabulous makers. A sampling of work, mostly ducks, made on site out of hanji, using jiseung techniques. May 31 – June 11, 2015.

Duck #2

Books/comics on the farm

What I’ve been making on the farm.

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