classes, workshops and lectures

Tom is a Cleveland artist whose work is nationally known and collected.  He graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College with a B.A. in Studio Arts. He completed his Masters Degree at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he was awarded a Syracuse University Fellowship Grant and a Ford Foundation Grant.

Tom's earliest work was principally in ceramics and printmaking but his focus also includes paper casting and pulp paintings.

Over the past three years Tom has been dedicated to the establishment of the Morgan Foundation.

Tom is a Cleveland artist whose work is nationally known and collected.  He graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College with a B.A. in Studio Arts. He completed his Masters Degree at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts where he was awarded a Syracuse University Fellowship Grant and a Ford Foundation Grant.

Tom's earliest work was principally in ceramics and printmaking but his focus also includes paper casting and pulp paintings.

Over the past three years Tom has been dedicated to the establishment of the Morgan Foundation.

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Monica is a graduate of Ohio State University and started doing origami when she was a young girl. She continued to fold origami through adolescence but it was shelved, as frequently happens, when she went to college. During that time Monica studied painting and drawing as well as a number of other art forms, including ceramics, sculpture and metal casting. Later, just by chance, she came across a web site featuring photographs of wonderful modular origami and her interest in origami was reawakened. She began folding immediately and started looking for other folders. Eager to connect with other folders she tried for more than a year to find a group or class but without success. Finally she decided to start her own origami group, Capital Area Paper Shapers.

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Ellie Strong

Lisa started making books as a child, not knowing that in her adult life it would become her passion.  Formally trained as a glass and clay artist, Lisa rediscovered the world of hand made paper and books seventeen years ago and has never looked back.

Fran Kovac

Deborah is the Collections Conservator at Dartmouth College Library, previously she headed the conservation lab at Northwestern University Library for over 10 years. She also teaches bookbinding classes at the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth and is a long standing member of the Guild of Bookworkers.  Deborah is also a member of the board of directors of the Morgan Conservatory.

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Laura Wait lives in Colorado and makes unique books and small editions using painting and printmaking techniques. With certificates in Printmaking and in Bookbinding from Croydon College of Art, England, her 25 years experience as a bookbinder and conservator is the basis for her excellent bookbinding technique in the English tradition, including leather fine bindings and medieval-style wooden board bindings. An active painter and printmaker, she exhibits her art widely, and her books are in many private and public collections, including the Library of Congress. She teaches book art workshops throughout the country.

This week long project celebrates healing through papermaking for Veterans of Northeastern Ohio. Underwritten by the Ohio Arts Council and Cuyahoga Arts And Culture this program is free and open to all United States veterans. Participants are urged to bring a piece of their uniform, paperwork, memorabilia and recycle them into art. Participants can then work with a Warrior Writer and produce a handmade book using their own words. The Morgan will also host a 4th of July potluck barbeque which is open to the veteran and Morgan community from, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 4th.

Combat Paper Project funded by

Bridget O’Malley is co-proprietor of Cave Paper Inc., a handmade paper mill specializing in decorative and unusual papers. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She holds an MA/MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. She completed a 5-year apprenticeship with Timothy Barrett at the University of Iowa Center for the Book Paper Facilities. Bridget has taught workshops in papermaking, bookbinding, and printmaking to students of all ages. She has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally.

Jana received her MFA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 25 years of book arts experience, she has worked as printer, illustrator, conservator, and book artist. Jana is the owner of Western Slope Bindery specializing in custom binding and repair of books, and teaches papermaking, binding and conservation workshops throughout the country.

William Drendel is a Chicago designer and book artist. After attending the Art Institute of Chicago he began studying traditional bookbinding at the Newberry Library and subsequently with Scott Kellar. He has recently served as director of the Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts, and more recently as its Gallery Coordinator. He has taught workshops around the country and in China. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is in collections both here and abroad.

Jim is Special Collections Conservator at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and adjunct faculty in the Henry Hope School of Fine Arts teaching Book Structures. He began studying Tibetan language and culture in the early 70’s and has traveled extensively in the Himalayan region researching papermaking and documenting papermakers, scribes and printers. He is a member of the Paper Road Tibet project working to research and revitalize traditional paper making in Tibet, and also works with the International Tibetan Archive Preservation Project in Lhasa carrying out conservation work and training. Currently, Jim is caretaker and exhibition escort for the scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road which is housed at the Lilly Library. For the next several years, Jim will be traveling with the scroll while the fragile 120-foot document is on its international tour.

Emily's work most often is with book forms. She has an ongoing interest in the artist's book as a container of content but also as a sculptural object. She likes the complexity that working with books allows, the materials, the forms, the content all working together. There is an interesting relationship between the viewer and the book. A book to be viewed fully must be handled. Emily will be coming to the Morgan to teach the Secret Belgium Binding as taught to her by Heid Kyle. Emily teaches nationally, is a faculty member for the University of Iowa book arts program, and owner of Naughty Dog Press.

Steve's interest in marbled paper stems from a longtime desire to personalize his own bookbinding with distinctive papers. He teaches book arts and decorative paper techniques extensively and especially enjoys revealing the secrets for successful paper marbling. Over the years, he has experimented with a wide variety of paints and papers in a quest for materials that allow students a rich and satisfying marbling experience. Steve's papers appear in museum collections and are used by binders and artists in the United States and Europe.

Laura Wait lives in Colorado and makes unique books and small editions using painting and printmaking techniques. With certificates in Printmaking and in Bookbinding from Croydon College of Art, England, her 25 years experience as a bookbinder and conservator is the basis for her excellent bookbinding technique in the English tradition, including leather fine bindings and medieval-style wooden board bindings. An active painter and printmaker, she exhibits her art widely, and her books are in many private and public collections, including the Library of Congress. She teaches book art workshops throughout the country.

This week long project celebrates healing through papermaking for Veterans of Northeastern Ohio. Underwritten by the Ohio Arts Council and Cuyahoga Arts And Culture this program is free and open to all United States veterans. Participants are urged to bring a piece of their uniform, paperwork, memorabilia and recycle them into art. Participants can then work with a Warrior Writer and produce a handmade book using their own words. The Morgan will also host a 4th of July potluck barbeque which is open to the veteran and Morgan community from, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 4th.

Combat Paper Project funded by

Jana Pullman

William Drendel is a Chicago designer and book artist. After attending the Art Institute of Chicago he began studying traditional bookbinding at the Newberry Library and subsequently with Scott Kellar. He has recently served as director of the Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts, and more recently as its Gallery Coordinator. He has taught workshops around the country and in China. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is in collections both here and abroad.

Jim Canary

Emily Martin

Steve's interest in marbled paper stems from a longtime desire to personalize his own bookbinding with distinctive papers. He teaches book arts and decorative paper techniques extensively and especially enjoys revealing the secrets for successful paper marbling. Over the years, he has experimented with a wide variety of paints and papers in a quest for materials that allow students a rich and satisfying marbling experience. Steve's papers appear in museum collections and are used by binders and artists in the United States and Europe.