Sukey Harris
We Love To Cut Paper!
Sharon & Sandy
Judaic Papercuts by Dena Levie
Zipora
Zipora Ne'eman
Zipora's class on how to teach large classes
Gudi Wittgren
"How to Teach a Large Class" by Zipora Ne'eman
My 1st cutting with scissors! Thanks Zipora!
Me - Chris (photo by Patty Kile)
The Cutting Art - Traditions of Decorative Paper Cutting Exhibit at Landis Valley Museum
Cuttings from 1800's
Hand love tokens, American, late 1800's
Heart mementos, with locks of hair, American, late 1800's
The German and Swiss Tradition Comes to America
Miniature Cuttings - this one is probably 1 1/2 inches in diameter!
Landis Valley Museum Property
Pretty Hair Acessories
Chris Smith, Jupi Das, Dena Levie - in front of Country Shop at Landis Valley Museum
Dena at the Tin Shop
Pennsylvania German picnic in Landis Valley Museum Yellow Barn
Fresh flowers from Sukey's garden and hand cut doilies on each table
Paper Stars for everyone!
Group Picture
Members of GAP (photo by Patty Kile)
Cutters from PA
PA cutters again (photo by Patty Kile)
Members not from PA (photo by Patty Kile)
People taking our picture
Yellow Barn
Robin playing some tunes for us
Demonstration by our Chinese visitors on how to use Methyl Cellulose
Finished product - this was one of my old cuttings that I never mounted
Professor Chen Jing
Reveling of their gift to our Guild - The Mouse Wedding March
Another cutting done by Chen Jing
Large Papercutting done by Alice Helen Masek
Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum downtown Lancaster
Lancaster Farmer's Market
Inside the Farmer's Market
Rug exhibit
Quilt Exhibit
Interactive Quilt exhibit for children - magnet quilt pieces
Peacock Rug
Dena with a pretty cutting
Presentation about PA Dutch Fraktur Art by the Lancaster Cultural History Museum
International GAP members (Photo by Dorene Rhoads)
Lunch at the Lancaster Central Market park
Carolyn Guest with her sheep shears teaching "Multicolored Stars and Multifolds"
Carolyn cutting with her sheep shears!
My first attempt at a multilayered design - Polish Wycinanki
Robin Goodfellow playing her recorders - two at once!
Robin playing and Darcy Walker dancing
Presentation - Beatrice Coron, NYC - From Papercutting to Pubic Art
Jupi, Dena & Beatrice
One of Beatrice's Papercuttings - she cuts on Tyvek!
Beatrice Coron - fan
Beatrice Coron - book
Inside of the book
Beatrice Coron
Presentation of Harris Award
GAP President - Kathy Trexel-Reed
Multifold cut by Steve Woodbury
Fun with folds - Steve Woodbury, Zipora Ne'eman, Carolyn Guest
Jenny
7 folds!
Dena Levie & Kim Frey
Outside the Yellow Barn at the Landis Valley Musuem - Paper Caper
Dove by Alice Helen Makek
Marcia Egan
Susan Throckmorton
Susan Throckmorton & Ester Shilo
Judith Meyers
Alice Helen Masek
Carolyn Guest with Sheep Shears
Sister Clarice
Chinese Visitors - Amazing!
Finished cat by Chen Jing
Marie-Helene Grabman
Robin Goodfellow
Pretty Paper Stars
Anne Leslie
Horse drawn buggies at Landis Valley Museum
My cousin Lisa looking at the sheep
My cousin Lisa & her husband Randy
Nice gardens at the Landis Valley Museum
Nice wallpaper in the Landis Valley House Hotel
Inside the hotel
Snapping Turtle Shell - Turtle Soup sign :(
Bartender with his Malt Bitters - a cure-all
Malt Bitters - taken for my husband - the brewer :)
My cousin Lisa and me
Joyce Yarbrough cutting Debbie Baird
Lynn Askew teaching how to make paper stars
Gene Toutsi's table
Ester Shilo - from Israel
Zipora Ne'eman from Israel
Darcy Walker
Alice Helen Masek - Large Scale Group Papercuttings
Joan Sulecki - Paper Lace
Kim & Chris Frey
Chris Frey
Kim Frey
Faye DuPlessis
Silhouette Train
Three silhouettes being cut at once
Steve Woodbury with Chen Jing and the silhouette that Professor Chen just cut
Chen just discovered that Joyce was doing his silhouette too
Broombush
Gallery in our dorm where we all displayed our work
Other side of gallery
My first try at embossing - thanks to Steve Woodbury for the use of his tools :)
Carolyn Guest, Beatrice Coron & Steve Woodbury
Alice Helen Masek's class "Design Principles and Drawing Techniques for Large Scale Group Papercuttings"
Drawing with her pencil on a stick
Presentation of gift from our Chinese guests - Papercutting of the Mouse Wedding March
Examples from the "In and Out, Adventuresome Black and White" class by Robin Goodfellow
Examples from the class "Polish Tree of Life" taught by Susan Throckmorten
Examples from the class "Expanding, Enhancing Paper - Cutting with Collage" taught by Gene Toutsi
Examples from the class " Multicolored Stars and Multifolds" taught by Carolyn Guest
Another example from Carolyn's class
Examples from the class "Pop-up and 3-D Paper Workshop" taught by Kathy Trexel Reed
Examples from the class "Cut and Paint a Haus Segen (House Blessing)" taught by Trudy Kauffman
It was the Guild's 20th Anniversary so we had an anniversary cake - complete with little papercuttings cut by the Executive Committee
We each got to take home a cutting
Close-ups of the Mouse Wedding March presented by our Chinese Guests to our Guild
A cutting I did with the initials of S,N,L
Another cutting I made for fun :)
Presentation by Claudia Hoff (A Personal Adventure)
Claudia receiving a gift presented by Sukey Harris, Sandy Gilpin & Sharon Schaich
Opening our Valentines from our Friendship Valentine Exchange
Valentines
Janet Theilen, Zipora Ne'eman, Chris Smith
The valentine that Zipora received
Joan Sulecki, Robin Goodfellow (she got the cutting that I made), Me (I got the cutting that Zipora made), and Zipora Ne'eman
The valentine that I received from Zipora Ne'eman (it says Shalom)
Cutting by Claudia Hoff
Ester Shilo & Zipora Ne'eman (they are both from Israel)
Mulitfold cutting by Zipora
Dena's first mulitfold cutting
Robin's first multifold cutting
My cutting I did of Lilac flowers
Joan's first multifold cutting
Robin's second multifold cutting
Professor Chen signing the papercutting that he gave to me
Chen Jing made each of us a papercutting to take home - each one different!