Introduction to Papermaking Short is a one day class that covers the first day of our longer Introduction to Papermaking Intensive class. Students will make paper with different sizes and styles of mould and deckles, and will learn how to pull sheets using fibres such as cotton and abaca. We will introduce laminating, shaped sheets, and inclusions. You will have the opportunity to bring in your own found materials to use in class.  

Participants will leave this course with 15-25 hand-pulled custom sheets of paper and enough knowledge to continue exploring paper at our intermediate level.

Saturday, June 14th, 2025

One day class, 5 hours, 11am - 4pm

Instructor: Flora Shum

Price includes all materials.

Level: Beginner, no experience required.

Artist-Instructor Bio

Flora Shum is a Hong Kong born-Tkaronto/Toronto based artist, educator, and cultural worker. Her artistic practice is experimental and collaborative by nature, with roots in papermaking, printmaking, and book arts, extending to found objects, sculpture, video, and installation. Her art utilizes these mediums to explore alternative histories and archives, alchemy, multiples and multiplicity, and slow labour.

She co-directs Paperhouse Studio (c.2013), where she carries forward the vision for paper as a medium, and leads arts-based programming for underserved communities. She is one half of duo collective—AURA, and Artistic Director of CARFAC Ontario, the association of visual and media artists in Ontario.

Flora has facilitation experience at OCAD University, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto, Central Technical School (Toronto, ON.), Peter Pitseolak School (Kinngait, NU.) and Attagoyuk Ilisavik (Pangnirtung, NU.). She has exhibited locally and internationally, including Toronto (ON), Whistler (BC), Hong Kong, and New York (NY).

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