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Celebrating art and community.
Making and sharing. Learning and teaching.
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In the life of a painting,
there is a curve, of creation. Highs
and Lows. Moments, where the work
Sings. And long days when you want
To give up, and reconsider…
All of your life choices.
Ever.
This, is the bottom of the curve.
Don’t quit here. The time
when nothing is going the way
You want. When you doubt
Everything. Paint through This.
Keep going. Allow for the struggle.
Know this Will happen. It has
to happen…If art were easy, everyone
Would Do it 😊
Painting is about solving problems.
Of your own making. You have
a good idea but the painting
has another. You start in the middle
and then try, every Which Way,
to get out of the middle. You are working
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in the abstract… but somehow…
paint a puppy.
That you just can’t unsee.
You fall in love with one small
and precious part. Knowing, you must
paint over that, if the painting is ever
going to be good.
And then there are the days
when everything Works. And you love
what you are making and you love your life and you know you are a great artist.
Those days where every color mix
Is magic. The puppy
disappears. The composition expands
and you dance through the work.
Hours melting into bliss.
This is the top of the painting curve.
Stop here! Stop now! Let it rest.
Come back to it, later, and reconsider.
What next. What more. Knowing…
The painting will be done, just before
It is finished.
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-Vera Gates
Dedicated to my painting teacher, Larry Robinson.
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OCT
29 Last day of Quiet Pursuits exhibition at Pima College
30 Pick up artwork at Pima College gallery, 11AM-2PM
NOV
1 Membership Renewal Campaign through DEC 31
5 PW Meeting, Speaker Rina Yoon
5 Members’ Challenge Display of artwork, 9:45-12noon
5 Sign up for JAN Member Show and Sell, sign up sheets at meeting
5 Registration online 3PM for Emiland Kray, Book As ShapeShifter workshop [DEC 13]
5 Registration online 3PM for Maria Lee: Reinventing Print Process workshop [JAN 8, 15]
6 Registration ends, Tucson Museum of Art Field trip [NOV 12]
10 Registration ends, Terence Leach workshop [NOV 13]
12 Field Trip to Tucson Museum of Art,10-11:30AM
13 Terence Leach Workshop, 10AM-4PM
30 Last day to sign up via email for Winter Postcard Challenge
DEC
3 PW Meeting, Four Perspectives on Making Artist Books
3 Food Drive for community food bank
3 Last day to sign up for Winter Postcard Exchange, sign up sheets at meeting
9 Registration ends, Emiland Kray, Book As ShapeShifter workshop [DEC 13]
13 Emiland Kray, Book As ShapeShifter workshop
15 Email Stevie Mack Intent to submit work for Unbound exhibit [FEB-MAR 2027]
18 Registration ends, Maria Lee: Reinventing Print Process workshop [JAN 8 & 15]
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Gather with us to Learn, Explore, Share and Grow
Thurs, NOV 5 - Members Meeting
Open to the Public - In Person only
**PLEASE CONSIDER CARPOOLING WITH A FRIEND**
St Francis in the Foothills Church, CELEBRATION ROOM
4625 E River Rd, NW Corner of River and Swan
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9 - 9:45AM: Deliver artwork for My Favorite Childhood Book
Members' Challenge
9:30 - 10AM: Check-in, informal chat
9:45 - Noon Display of Members' Challenge artworks
10 - 10:45AM: Welcome, Announcements
10:45 - 11AM: Break, Voting on Members' Challenge artworks
11AM - 12PM: SPEAKER: Rina Yoon
The Paper Path: From Hanji to Papercasting
12Noon - Announcement of Members' Challenge Awards
Remove artworks from Members' Challenge display
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RINA YOON - SPEAKER
The Paper Path: From Hanji to Papercasting
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WEB: www.rinayoon.com
IG: @rinayoonart
FB: Facebook.com/rinayoonart
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My presentation traces my journey through paper, shaped by travels to Korea where I studied traditional hanji-making and craft practices. Through immersion in process, repetition, and touch, I came to understand how material itself can guide artistic direction. This experience not only informed my evolving practice—including later explorations in paper casting—but also deepened my connection to my Korean heritage. My talk reflects on how listening to material can open new pathways for making, meaning, and identity.
A retired Professor of Fine Art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Yoon earned her BFA from Southern Methodist University and MFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis. A PaperWorks member, she lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.
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FALL MEMBERS' CHALLENGE
Theme: MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD BOOK WAS....
Bring in your work for Display at NOV 5 Meeting
Check in 9 - 9:45AM | Display 9:45 - 12Noon
Voting at the Break only | Results announced at Noon
We are excited to see where your imagination has taken you. Bring in your artwork and check in between 9-9:45. Members will have an opportunity to view the display of artistic creations and choose their favorite works during the break.
Awards will be announced after the speaker's presentation.
Thank you for your participation!
REMINDER: Please do not put your name on your piece
as the membership will be voting on 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards.
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Ready for another postcard exchange?
WINTER POSTCARD EXCHANGE
from early DEC 2026 - end of FEB 2027
IMPORTANT DATES:
NOV 30 Final Day to sign up via Email Only**
DEC 3 Final Day to sign up in person - at PW meeting
APR 1 Postcard Slide Show and Display
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**Sign up by email until NOV 30
Email Sue Agnew at PWPostcards@gmail.com
PLEASE include your full mailing address (including city and zip).
Soon after the DEC meeting you will receive three names by email.
Here’s how it works: By signing up you are agreeing to send one hand-created postcard to each name. Of course you can send more if you want. Three other people will receive your name and will be sending you cards. Postcards can be any size, any medium, any theme. Happy postcarding!
To view the 2026 Summer Postcard Slide Show: Click HERE
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NEW! MEMBERS' SHOW AND SELL
JAN 6, 2027 Meeting
Sign up sheets at NOV 5 Meeting
Members, gather up your creative work and get ready for the much-anticipated annual SHOW AND SELL. Each participant must sign up in advance. You must be a member and sign up to participate. You will get one-half of a table to display and sell your wares.
Please have cash available for making change or a charge card app.
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FALL FIELD TRIP
Tucson Museum of Art
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140 N Main Ave, Tucson
NOV 12 | 10 - 11:30AM |
Meet in Lobby
Parking: El Presidio Parking Garage
160 W Alameda St
MAP Download
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Online Registration
Closes NOV 6
Members Only
Limit: 16, with a wait list
$15 participant or $12 Senior
paid to museum on day of field trip
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IT'S MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME!
MEMBERSHIP DUES ACCEPTED THROUGH DEC 31, 2026
Paperworks now has only one category of membership dues:
$50 per person for New or Renewing**
Join-renew LINK and consider making a donation
to the Scholarship Fund at the same time.
OR you can pay with a check/cash/credit card at the NOV and DEC meetings.
NOTE: When you pay by check/cash, it saves PW $3.50 per credit card charge.
**Anyone who joined over the summer and through the end of DEC 2026
is granted membership through DEC 31, 2027.
At its core PaperWorks is an organization of kindred spirits, where friendships deepen
and where each of us can share knowledge, skills, inspiration and encouragement.
Yet, we offer so much more: Monthly Speakers, Exhibit Opportunities, Annual Art Challenges, Postcard Exchanges, Small Group Explorations in Creative Meetups,
Workshops taught by Members and Invited Artists, Field Trips and
Scholarship Assistance to Local College Artists on their creative journey.
Thank you for your support in sustaining our mission.
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ONLINE Registration only
Ends: NOV 10
in person
St. Francis in the Foothills
4625 E. River Road Tucson, AZ 85718
same room as
PW monthly meetings
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WORKSHOP
TERENCE LEACH
The Four Brush Paper Relationship
Fri, NOV 13, 10AM - 4PM
Members Only
FEE $50 | 10 participants, (Max 15)
Class level: All are welcome
Learn the four brush/paper relationships and the timing associated with them. These relationships govern how water and pigment move between the brush and paper in watercolor. They are affected by time. How long it takes for the water to dry or how thick the paint is on the brush controls the final color.
Review values and make a quick value chart. Practice this timing after reviewing values. Participants will paint-along using at least 3 of the brush/paper relationships.
Supply List LINK
Contact: education@paperworks.info
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Class level: All are welcome
Materials to bring: Bone folder, cutting mat, and ruler, dinner or snacks.
Contact: education@paperworks.info
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NEW! WORKSHOP
EMILAND KRAY
Book As ShapeShifter
SUN, DEC 13 | 2-6PM
Members Only
FEE $50 | 10 participants (Max 15)
ONLINE Registration only
Begins: Thurs, NOV 5, 3PM
in person
Tucson Pastel Society
2447 N. Los Altos Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
Books are as expansive as the stories they can contain. You will learn how to make 3 unique modular book forms: a hexaflexagon, an orihon book, and a chinese thread box. These book forms offer unique ways to express ideas with unexpected transitions and hidden compartments! These forms encourage abstract associations, nonlinear storytelling, and expansive notions on how the content of a book can be emphasized also with its sculptural form.
More Info and registration LINK
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The Emiland Kray and Maria Lee workshops are generously underwritten
in part by the Solomon Bequest, allowing us to offer members a reduced fee.
We thank the Bequest for making this possible.
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NEW! WORKSHOP
MARIA LEE
Making Meaning:
Reinventing the print process
All without a press
2 Day | 2 Process Workshop
FRI, JAN 8 & 15, 2027
10AM-4PM
Members Only
$150
Max 10 participants
ONLINE Registration only
Begins: Thurs, NOV 5, 3PM
in person
Tucson Pastel Society
2447 N. Los Altos Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
Class Level: All are welcome
Supply List and Workshop
Details Download
Registration LINK
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Explore the possibilities of pressless printmaking. Combine the techniques of relief, offset, transfer, stencil, pouchoir, and stamping. Students will learn to make quality prints at home without a press and how to transform prints into book art projects.
Maria Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist who will be joining us from Paris to present this workshop.
Contact: education@paperworks.info
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ENDING SOON
QUIET PURSUITS Exhibit
Pima Community College
West Campus, 2202 W Anklam Rd
Visual Arts Gallery, Bldg A, 2nd Floor
OCT 29 Last day of exhibition
open 9AM - 5PM daily
OCT 30 Pick up artwork at Gallery
11AM-2PM
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NEW! CALL TO ARTISTS
UNBOUND
A PaperWorks Members' Exhibit at the Steinfeld Gallery
FEB 6 - MAR 18, 2027
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IMPORTANT DATES
DEC 15 Email intent to participate
JAN 2 Email digital jpegs of artwork
JAN 25 Deliver artwork to gallery, 9 -10AM
FEB 14 ARTISTS' Reception, 12 - 4PM
MAR 19 Pick up artwork at gallery, 9 - 10AM
Gallery hours - First Saturdays of the Month
FEB 6 and MAR 6
4PM - 8PM
Gallery hours - Subsequent Saturdays
FEB 13, 20, 27 and MAR 13
12PM - 4PM
THEME: Unbound invites artists to wander without limits. To be unbound is to be unfettered: free of the constraints of convention, expectation and the familiar. It is the moment an idea slips its tether and moves into territory yet unexplored.
The exhibition follows the imagination wherever it goes. It may arrive as a new medium,
an unexpected method, or a question finally asked. It may be the setting aside of a habit
of style or subject that has quietly held your work in place. Whether your work breaks a boundary or dissolves one, freedom lies in seeking new expressions once ideas are unbound.
Download Call to Artists PDF
Contact: Stevie Mack
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Welcome to Stephanie Sikora, who is joining Nancy Scott Patton,
as Co-Chair of the Programs Committee.
Help Needed SOCIAL MEDIA: We need a volunteer to post updates
on our Instagram and Facebook pages. Please contact Vera Gates for more details.
Board Contact list: https://www.paperworks.info/contact-us
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Our PaperWorks website Home page LINK
is a quick reference for current events and announcements.
It also links to our current Monthly Enews
Look for the Blue "Enews" button.
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JOIN PAPERWORKS
Since 2001 PaperWorks has thrived as an organization because of your membership and continuing support.
YOU make a difference.
Join or Renew HERE
Returning members, if your contact info has changed (phone, email, address) please notify the Membership chair.
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So many benefits, including invaluable and enduring friendships. Need more reasons to join or renew?
A message from our Founder
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BOOK AND PAPER ARTS CALENDAR
Check out Book & Paper Arts Calendar organized by PW member Jade Quek. It an extensive list of events and classes offered in the west, across the country and beyond. Subscribe to the monthly newsletter that supplements the calendar, e-mail Jade Quek.
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E-NEWS SUBMISSIONS
Deadline: 10th of each month before the next month's e-publication
Example: Sept 10th for Oct 1st enews
Full enews: SEPT - MAY emailed: by the 1st of the month
Summer Shorts enews: emailed in JUN and AUG only
Please include the following:
- Who, What, When, and Where
- Website addresses/links (yours & theirs)
- and of course, we all love PHOTOS!
PHOTOS: Jpegs only, no larger than 1 MB
Send your information to PW enews
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SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS
Our local art resources, Arizona Art Supply, Posner’s and Sarnoff have offered discounts to PaperWorks members, promoted our exhibits and supported our activities in a variety of ways. Act with your wallet.
Buy local and let them know we appreciate them.
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About Us
PaperWorks, the Sonoran Collective for paper and book artists provides educational and creative opportunities for all who work with and on paper, and promotes the appreciation and enjoyment of the paper and book arts through regular and special events.
PaperWorks is based in Tucson, Arizona.
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