Handmade Papermaking Workshop Saturday, July 25 11 AM - 2 PM

Spend an inspiring afternoon making handmade paper!

Discover the art of handmade paper including introductory skills of sheet formation, pulp painting, and botanical inclusions. All necessary materials are included, along with an introduction to the creative process behind papermaking.

Led by Aidan Anne Frierson of Chicago Pulp, this workshop welcomes beginners to explore the fundamentals of papermaking.

Saturday, July 25th 11 AM - 2 PM

MATERIAL CONSIDERATIONS: Bring your own boots & clothes you're comfortable getting wet. Aprons, Fiber, Materials & Equipment Provided.

Aidan Anne Frierson has nearly a decade of experience working with handmade paper. Since falling in love with the practice, it's been a dream of hers to open a Papermill and Studio where she can share her skills and love for the practice with others in her community. Papermaking, at its core, can be an inaccessible practice without the proper equipment and support. Aidan hopes to bridge the gap. She primarily works with Cotton, positing the material as "the reason Why We Are Here." Through handmade papermaking, she activates material by engaging with color, texture, size, pattern and form. She honors history as a material by embedding personal and cultural ephemera in relationship with cellulose. 

Frierson is the Co-Founder of Chicago Pulp Papermill & Studio and Executive Director of the North American Hand Papermakers organization. Her public programming, education work, and cultural practice has shown up collaboratively in spaces such as: Newberry Library, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago Torture Justice Center, Chicago Art Department, Marwen, Dieu Donné, Hook Pottery & Paper, Smart Museum of Art, ACRE Residency and Penland School of Craft. In 2025, she received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.