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When Janelle Washington, longtime GAP member and former Board member, explains her artwork to people who aren’t familiar with paper cutting as a fine art, she references snowflakes. “I remind them of cutting snowflake shapes out of paper when they were kids,” the artist notes. “Then I say, ‘Now think of something in a grander design. That’s all I’m doing.’ I spent maybe the first three years of my career teaching people about paper cutting who knew about it, but didn’t really think of it as a medium that could be considered a fine art.”

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Art review of ‘A Natural History of the Studio,” recent exhibit by paper artist William Kentridge, in which he “uses doppelgängers to investigate how art,...

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Making news in papercutting is Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, a Danish paper artist who specializes in gigantic flowers. Here’s the coverage from the New York Times,...

Guild of American Papercutters

National Museum

Established in 2009-2010 in cooperation with Laurel Arts, the Museum is located at the Philip Dressler Center for the Arts, in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Housing over 200 carefully chosen and curated paper artworks, it is the first American museum devoted to the art of papercutting.

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Museum Hours

9:30–6:00, Monday Until 8:00

Museum Location

2270 S Real Camino Lake California

The Loquet Museum fuels a journey of discovery across time to enable
solutions for a brighter future rich in nature and culture.