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Curious about papermaking and want to test the waters in a bite size version of our popular intro class? This short and sweet class is perfect for you. We even have a session especially for kids ages 6 and up!
You’ll learn the basics of papermaking from pulling your own pulp sheets to playing with some pigmented pulp, creating unique handmade paper art.
All materials are provided and are non-toxic and non-staining, a safe and perfect medium for all ages.
Fees include all materials plus postage** for your dried papers to be mailed back to you.
Saturday, July 25th, 2026
3 sessions to choose from. Each session is 2 hours in length
Options:
*10am - 12pm, (*Welcoming kids ages 6+)
1pm - 3pm
4pm - 6pm
Instructors: Flora Shum & Cindy Lam
Price includes all materials.
Level: Beginner, no experience required.
This is a masks optional class.
Kids
*All kids under 10 years old must be accompanied by an adult. As a bonus, the accompanying adult will get to make paper too!
Kids 10 years + may attend alone. Guardians to arrange drop off and pick up accordingly.
Postage
**Postage included is only for Ontario addresses via lettermail and will have no tracking. If you require mailing and/or tracking of your papers to an address outside of Ontario, please get in touch with us prior to signing up so we can provide you a shipping estimate and/or discuss alternatives. You will also have the option to select pick up of the papers at our studio, tracking, and/or shipping to a non-Ontario address at checkout.
Make a day of it!
Our neighbourhood has lots of amazing and fun spots to explore—Trinity Bellwoods is just down the street, and there are lots of great cafes, restaurants, and small businesses in the neighbourhood. If you are making a day out of it, feel free to reach out for some recommendations!
Artist-Instructor Bios
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).
Cindy Yan Lam (she/her) is a Canadian visual artist & papermaker. Her current practice focuses on working with paper as a medium. Born in Hong Kong, she immigrated to Canada with her family as a toddler. She is based in Toronto.
Lam's process driven practice consists of historical craft technologies that are tactile and require time in their development, as her work often explores themes of slowness, the passage of time, juxtapositions, and regeneration. Her creative methods include hand papermaking, stitching, and painting. Many of her abstract landscape works begin with handmade papers which are created from the raw fibre stage that Lam processes by hand. Her practice aims to counter the frenetic pace of our highly digitized age where faster is often deemed better. Much of Lam's work is influenced by her daily walking practice where she attunes to the many non-human lifeforms, we share our planet with.
Lam holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Falmouth University, UK. She was awarded distinction classifications for both her final major project and for her degree. In 2024, she was the recipient of an Explore and Create grant by the Canada Council for the Arts which support her further explorations in hand papermaking. Lam studied traditional washi (paper) making in Niigata, Japan under the tutelage of Master papermaker, Hiroaki Imai and Paper Researcher/Papermaker, Paul Denhoed. She has exhibited locally and internationally. Her works are held in private collections in Canada, USA, Asia, and Europe.
When she is not making art, you will find her exploring the residential streets, parks, and ravines in her neighbourhood with her two beloved Samoyed dogs aka her studio mates.