Many Hands: Collaborative Pulp Painting with Kelly Taylor Mitchell

Many Hands: Collaborative Pulp Painting – Kelly Taylor Mitchell Dates: August 17 – 21, 2026 Studio: Papermaking Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300 Lab fee: $150 Class limit: 6 Many Hands is a pulp painting workshop that emphasizes collaborative process. This workshop challenges the notion of an isolated artist practice and alternatively invites participants to work together to create a large-scale collaborative handmade paperwork. This collaborative papermaking project will center improvisation and intuition as aesthetic guides. We will look to artists and writers who articulate the power of prioritizing the act, the feeling, and the experience of doing over a fixation on outcomes. Tools like prompt-based free writing, reading and discussion will support our collaborative and process orientated exploration. Overbeaten linen and flax fibers will be used to explore techniques in pigmentation, sheet formation and various pulp painting techniques. This workshop is a great fit for artists who want to explore not just papermaking, but the creative process. It is essential that participants are eager and open to collaboration. Papermaking is a wet process; participants should be prepared with waterproof or water-safe shoes and clothing. This workshop will involve prolonged periods of standing, often requiring repeated movements in the upper body, and the maneuvering of heavy items. The instructor is available to collaborate/accommodate to ensure student safety/comfort.