We are a convivial, craft based community of hand papermakers.

NORTH AMERICAN HAND PAPERMAKERS

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Publications

North American Hand Papermakers publishes monthly email newsletters, a digital periodical Bull & Branch, and ad hoc e-blasts. NAHP monthly newsletters share latest NAHP news for members via email. Bull & Branch is published online twice a year. Read NAHP articles written from multiple points of view on special topics of interest to papermakers and the papermaking community.

Conferences

Each year, NAHP hosts a conference focused on different topics and themes relating to hand papermaking. Papermakers, researchers, artists, collectors, and aficionados come from all over North America and, the world, to present and learn. Join us to learn more about scholarly research, experimental papermaking techniques, and new thinking in regards to the contextual importance of papermaking in art practices today.

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Exhibitions

North American Hand Papermakers develops and promotes exhibitions related to hand papermaking practice, papermaking scholarship, and papermaking technology. To encourage contemporary and future papermakers and to educate the public, it has implemented a three-year cycle of special exhibitions.

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North American Hand Papermakers is an organization that brings together people interested in hand papermaking, to encourage sharing of practical, historical, and artistic knowledge about the craft.

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Online Galleries

Our NAHP online galleries can help you learn more about NAHP and how its membership advances the knowledge, education, and stewardship of hand papermaking as craft. Our NAHP online galleries include conferences, exhibitions, selected work by featured members, and members work.

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Papermaking Champions

The NAHP Hall of Papermaking Champions is a historical resource of significant modern pioneers and researchers in hand papermaking. Our Hall of Papermaking Champions includes Now Departed Champions and Elder States People Champions. The past informs the present, and leads us into the future.

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Resources

Get access to NAHP resources which include fellow paper making organizations, libraries, companies, and institutional members.

“We foster learning and research innovative approaches to the study and practice of hand papermaking”

— Lynn Sures, former president 2018-2020, North American Hand Papermakers

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