Our 2013 schedule holds a broad scope of workshops, teachings, and residencies. The focus of our 2013 activities is to teach a Spring semester course on hand papermaking at Edgewood College, to facilitate papermaking workshops which bring together survivors of trauma and art therapists, and continue to develop Panty Pulping workshops. We will be on residency for this semester at The Mill Book & Paper Arts Center, and looking forward to welcoming new members of the Peace Paper Project.
This fall we set out on our national Panty Pulping tour. In the late fall we begin another international tour working with paper museums, centers for peace and universities in Turkey, Spain, Poland and the United Kingdom. See below for details, and feel free to contact us if we are in your area and you would like to participate!
Drew, Margie and Johnny LaFalce will be executing new paper, book and print works during a two month artist residency. The group will be teaming up to create an exhibit of large Nepalese-style sheets titled riots, revolts & revolutions. The completed works will be exhibited internationally, with its first stop at the Yalova Ibrahim Muteferrika Paper Museum in Turkey. Margaret is focusing on creating a portfolio edition titled unmentionables. The portfolios will be sold to special collection libraries throughout the United States of America.
Slideshow of the work created for riots, revolts & revolutions.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan are engaged in a four-month artist and teaching residency at The Mill Book & Paper Arts Center in Rhinelander, WI.
The two are focusing their studio work on making a collaborative portfolio from the exhibition Riots, Revolts and Revolutions and further developing Panty Pulping .
As part of the residency, the two are teaching community classes on Pulp Printing and Panty Pulping.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan are teaching a three credit course in papermaking at Edgewood College. This course emphasizes the technical aspects of papermaking with Edgewood College's new portable paper studio. Students will be using the portable paper studio in the spirit of social action, by designing specific community projects and implementing them in the Madison area.
In gearing up for V-day's One Billion Rising campaign, Panty Pulping will be hosting a workshop at Edgewood College's Fine Art Facility. Bring a pair of undies to pulp in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. The event runs from Noon to 5pm. Open to the public.
Margaret Mahan and Drew Matott are teaming up with paper artist and educator Mary Hark at UW - Madison's Art Lofts to conduct a one day Panty Pulping will be hosting a workshop as part of V-day's One Billion Rising campaign. Bring a pair of undies to pulp in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. The event runs from 10am to 5pm. Open to the public.
Finishing the triptych of events as part of V-day's One Billion Rising campaign, Margaret and Drew are conducting a one day Panty Pulping workshop at North Eastern Illinois University. The event is being hosted by the Women's Studies and Fine Art Program's Bring a pair of undies to pulp in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. The event runs from 10am to 6pm. Open to the public.
Margaret and Drew will be teaming up with Debbie Jircik and Daniel Goscha to represent The Mill Paper & Book Arts Center. The team will be making paper using the portable hollander beater and printing a small printing press.
Drew Matott, Margaret Mahan & Jon Turner are teaming up with art therapists at the Hines VA to conduct a series of ongoing papermaking, bookbinding and printmaking workshops for veterans and staff.
Janice Havlena, Edgewood College Art Therapy students and the organization ARTworking are conducting a papermaking workshop for survivors of traumatic brain injury. Participants will be making Western and Nepalese-style sheets of paper.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan are conducting a one-day Panty Pulping workshop. The workshop is being hosted by The Mill Paper & Book Arts Center and Circle of Life Studio.
As part of The Common Experience theme for 2012-2013, "A Global Odyssey: Exploring Our Connections to the Changing World," Margaret and Drew are conducting a series of lectures and workshops working with honors students, Veterans Alliance of Texas State and the San Marcos community.
To help celebrate the opening of the new Student Veteran Organization's space at McHenry County College, Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan will be conducting a one-day pulp printing and creative sheet forming papermaking workshop with student veterans and staff.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan are conducting a one-day pulp printing and creative sheet forming papermaking workshop with the residents at New Horizons veterans home.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan are conducting a one-day Pulp Printing workshop. The workshop is being hosted by The Mill Paper & Book Arts Center and Circle of Life Studio.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan continue to conduct a series of ongoing papermaking, bookbinding and printmaking workshops for veterans and staff at the Hines VA.
As part of the Manifest Urban Arts Festival at Columbia College - Chicago, Drew & Margaret will be teaming up with the Art + Activism Program, festival goers and Chicago pedestrians in a Panty Pulping intervention! Bring a pair of your underwear to pulp and join us in an expression of solidarity against sexual and domestic violence!
As part of the monthly mixer dinner at BluSeed Studios, Drew Matott, Johnny LaFalce & Margaret Mahan will be engaging students and the Saranac Lake community in a day-long public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Collaborating with NAMI SLV, United Helpers & St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, Claire Louise, Margaret Mahan, Johnny La Falce & Drew Matott will conduct a one-day papermaking workshop for consumers and care providers from the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center's Outpatient Community Residence Northwoods Manor and United Helpers Transitional Living Center Gateway Apartments.
Celebrating Panty Pulping's one-year anniversary Margaret Mahan, Claire Louise & Drew Matott will be engaging the Burlington community in a day-long public engagement.
Drew and Margaret bring Peace Paper Project and Panty Pulping to Philadelphia for the first time! Collaborating with Moore College of Art and Design student Victoria Lattanzi, the team will hold four days of public and private workshops for Moore College, Women Organized Against Rape, and the Philadelphia community. This visit is made possible in part due to Lattanzi's Frieda Fehrenbacher Leadership Award.
Margaret Mahan and Drew Matott are teaming up with Art Therapist Mia DeBethune to teach a five-day papermaking, bookbinding and printmaking workshop for the staff and residents at Children's Village.
Margaret Mahan, Drew Matott, Johnny LaFalce and Robert Walp are teaming up to do a weekend papermaking and bookbinding workshop to support the Book Arts Collection at Chestertown Public Library.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by PAVA to engage Plattsbugh State students and the larger community in a day-long public engagement in the quad between the Fineburg Library and Myers Fine Arts Building.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
In conjunction with this year's Immersion Day, students of Saint Leo's School of Education and Social Services will participate in a day of Peace Papermaking. Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan will present on art as social action and conduct papermaking and bookbinding workshops.
As part of their Visiting Artist residency at BluSeed Studios, members of Peace Paper will be celebrating the 1930's hobo train-culture at the 2013 Hobo Festival. Pedestrians and festival goers will be invited to print classic hobo icons on handmade paper from the Peace Paper travels. The printing is free and open to all who come by to use the latest addition to our team; Lady Press. We hope to see you there!
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by the Women's Resource Center & the Living Learning Center at UVM to engage students and the larger Burlington community in an evening lecture titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a day-long public engagement outside the Bailey/Howe Library.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Bailey/Howe Special Collections is an owner of the first Panty Pulping Portfolio, unmentionables.
As part of the 2013/2014 SLU Arts Collaborative Series, Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan will be engaging students and the larger Canton community in daily classroom lectures titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a four-day public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Saint Lawrence University is an owner of the first Panty Pulping Portfolio, unmentionables.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by the Women's Resource Center and Gender Studies Program to engage students and the larger community in a day-long public engagement in the Student Union.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by Center for Women and Gender Studies to engage students and the larger community in a day-long public engagement outside the Women's Resource Center.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by the Arts & Humanities Department and will be engaging students with a two-day public engagement inside the Communication Building Lobby.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Margaret Mahan and Drew Matott will deliver a lecture on their international projects that use papermaking as a form of community building and social action. Following the lecture the two will conduct a Panty Pulping intervention, inviting pedestrians to cut, pulp and make paper from undergarments as an action against sexual and domestic violence.p>
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by the Womens Resource Center and Gender Studies Program to engage students and the larger Oneonta community in an evening lecture titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a two-day public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan will be engaging students and the larger community in an evening lecture titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a two-day public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Michigan State University Special Collections is an owner of Panty Pulping's first portfolio, unmentionables.
As part of Veteran's Day Celebrations and commemorating the opening of the new Student Veteran Organization's space at McHenry County College, Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan will be conducting a three-day pulp printing and creative sheet forming papermaking workshop with student veterans and staff.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan will be engaging students and the larger community in an evening lecture titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a two-day public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
A workshop at a shelter for survivors of abuse is being planned for October 10.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan will be engaging poetry & fine art students in a lecture titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a day-long public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
As part of the Meet the Makers program at the Madison Public Library's mixed media workshop The Bubbler, Drew & Margaret will be engaging the public in a Panty Pulping street intervention.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by the Women's Resource Center and Fine Art Department to engage students and the larger community in an evening lecture titled Book Arts & Social Action followed by a day-long public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
As part of the ongoing workshops at this Years Friends of Dard Hunter Conference, Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan will be engaging the FDH community in a day-long public engagement.
Pedestrians will be invited to join registered participants in pulping their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Margaret Mahan and Drew Matott are being hosted by SIUE Student Art Therapy Group to conduct a lecture on Book Arts and Art Therapy followed by a day-long papermaking and bookbinding workshop.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are teaming up with the Art Therapists and staff at Kids TLC to conduct two-days of transforming personal clothing into paper and books with children who have been abused, abandoned, homeless or neglected.
Kicking off the opening of the Citizen-Soldier-Citizen exhibition of veteran-made art, members of Peace Paper will be facilitating a papermaking workshop for veterans and their families. The works that are created will be on display during the course of the exhibition.
Drew Matott & Margaret Mahan are being hosted by the Fine Arts Department and Latinas In Power to will be engage students and the larger community in a two-day Panty Pulping Workshop.
Registered participants will pulp their underwear in solidarity against sexual and domestic violence. All will be invited to sign the Panty Pulping Contract and create a personalized pulp-printed-broadside in response to a visual questionnaire.
Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan will do a papermaking demonstration in conjunction with an exhibit of paper art that has been created by participants in the different workshops at the Hines VA.
Drew & Margaret are returning to Turkey; this time to bring the portable paper studio to the ancient paper center of Yalova. There they will lecture on their international work, collaborate with artists and paper engineers, and conduct papermaking classes demonstrating pulp printing.
