Curated by paper artist Michael Velliquette, The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition explores modern interpretations of paper crafts, including cutting, folding, rolling, weaving, and layering.

Featuring the works of: Zai Divecha, Katherine Glover, Samuelle Green, Claude-Gerard Jean, Alicia Kelly, Goran Konjevod, Karen Margolis, Dorothy McGuinness, Sara Rayo, lucha rodríguez, rhiannon skye tafoya, Julie VonDerVellen, and Amanda Witucki.

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Join us in celebrating The Craft of Paper: Contemporary Takes on Tradition, curated by paper artist Michael Velliquette.  The Craft of Paper explores modern interpretations of paper crafts, including cutting, folding, rolling, weaving, and layering.

Meet the curator and discover how craft is continually innovating and transforming with new materials and techniques. This reception is the first look at our exciting and inspiring exhibit for fall 2026.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Join artist and curator Michael Velliquette for Paper Craft Fundamentals, a hands-on workshop that introduces participants to essential techniques in paper-based art practices, including cutting, folding, scoring, rolling, weaving, and layering.

Through this workshop, participants will develop new technical skills as well as a deeper understanding of how paper-based practices continue to expand within contemporary creative fields.

All materials provided and all skill levels welcome.

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Indie Craft Experience is a thoughtfully curated marketplace designed to showcase exceptional independent artists, makers, and creative entrepreneurs.

Through hands on maker activities and immersive experiences, we create opportunities for visitors to do more than shop—they can discover, learn, and participate in the creative process.

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Participants will explore indigo through its many transformations from plant to pigment to vat. Working across multiple processes, students will gain a layered understanding of how it shifts in form, behavior, and color over time.

Our workshop retreats are an immersive series of retreat-style experiences that invite deep engagement with process, material, and place. The experience includes accommodations on our 600-acre campus, crafted meals, and serene time in the North Georgia Mountains.

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Indie Craft Experience is a thoughtfully curated marketplace designed to showcase exceptional independent artists, makers, and creative entrepreneurs. Since 2005, we’ve connected shoppers directly with talented creatives selling handmade goods, original art, and vintage treasures while fostering meaningful connections between artists and the community.

Through hands on maker activities and immersive experiences, we create opportunities for visitors to do more than shop—they can discover, learn, and participate in the creative process.

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The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.’s (HGA) mission is to educate, support, and inspire the fiber art community.

We provide inspiration, instruction, and networking opportunities for fiber artists of all skill levels. HGA produces a quarterly magazine for its more than 3,500 members, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot; Convergence®, a biennial international fiber arts conference; Small Expressions, an annual juried exhibition of small fiber artworks; and many more opportunities for artists, including grants, scholarships, and virtual events.

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Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 will support an artist residency at Spelman College; an immersive opportunity to collaborate, experiment and create. Alberta Whittle works across painting, film, performance and textiles illustrating a nuanced approach to the notion of craft.

Engaging resources across campus from emergent technologies in the innovation lab to resources in printmaking, papermaking, fibers and beyond Whittle will create, meet and interact with faculty and students.

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“Future curators, art historians, museum professionals and artists all come together at the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective. Housed within the Department of Art & Visual Culture at Spelman College, this innovative program aims to shape the future of the art world and position the Atlanta University Center as the leading incubator of African American professionals in these fields.”

— AUC Art Collective

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The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (SEFAA) is your creative community. Classes, events, and exhibits in all fiber art techniques, from applique’ to weaving.

We’re passionate about teaching fiber art skills and curating exceptional exhibits and events, but SEFAA is about so much more. We’re here to help you find – or rediscover – the joy of creating. We’re here to celebrate the traditions that connect us across generations and cultures. Through the unique lens of fiber arts – both contemporary and traditional – we ignite creativity that nourishes the soul, fosters understanding, and celebrates the beautifully diverse fabric of our world.

Together, we are SEFAA, weaving connections and crafting something truly beautiful and extraordinary!

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Join us for a special lecture and papermaking workshop with guest historian Dr. Joran Proot! Dr. Proot is a distinguished historian of early modern books from the Cultura Fonds and the University of Antwerp. Dr. Proot will discuss the materials and workflow of paper making as it was carried out in Europe during the early modern period. After the lecture participants will learn to make paper, using the classic Western style technique.

All skill levels welcome and all materials provided.

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Learn how to build a little world! Tunnel books are created from a series of cut-paper panels that create depth in a small, detailed scene.

In this class, we will learn how to prepare and assemble materials to make a tunnel book, as well as some of the history behind this fascinating structure. Participants will construct a book starting with an image from historic Atlanta, and leave ready to make their own creations.

All skill levels welcome and all materials provided.

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In this workshop, you will build your very own Ramblin’ Wreck cardboard model using a custom kit packed with laser-cut pieces. Along the way, you’ll master 4–5 creative cardboard joining techniques engineers use for structural strength.

We’ll dive into the science behind cardboard—discover how its strength and flexibility change with flute direction and ply thickness—while you put theory into practice. By the end, you’ll have a sturdy, eye-catching creation to take home and show off!

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Join us for a free virtual lecture with Georgia Tech Professors Myrsini Mamoli and Daniel Phelps on the collaborative exhibit Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design. Each professor will share their design approach to this collaboration as well as constraints and considerations that the students had to address when designing an exhibition space. 

Virtual talk from 7:00 – 8:00pm ET. Register here.

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Join us in celebrating the exhibit Transformed Environments: Paper Informing Design at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.

Paper is an underappreciated resource that touches every aspect of our lives, even architecture. We see the influence of paper in construction materials, architecture models, and as design inspiration. This exhibition focuses on paper as it shapes the spaces we live and work in.

This event is free and open to the public. Reception from 4:00 – 7:00 PM.

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