A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Matthew Dols, who created The Wise Fool podcast series. Our conversation is here if you’d like to listen. Here’s his list of topics we discussed:
– paper as a cultural touchstone
– find something you like to do and figure out how to make a living at it
– paper as an artistic medium
– the definition of paper
– pulp paint
– paper making residency
– Fellowships
– being safe in the studio during covid
– concerns about post covid art funding
– the benefits of webinars
– how to float paper works in a frame
– paper as a sculptural medium
– rubber molds and laminate casting
– new technologies in paper making
– watermarks
– ecological concerns of paper production
– toilet paper is very good at what it does