University of Wisconsin-Madison
09/30/2022 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/30/2022 12:14
Pulping and screening: Students hand-make paper on Library Mall
Students and passersby had the chance to hand-pull paper during an annual workshop held on Library Mall on Sept. 29. Student organization Holding History hosts the event each year to engage students and the campus community in the hands-on process of pulling paper. Using recycled rags and local wheat straw, participants made sheets of paper under the instruction of master papermaker Robert Pussehl. Students enrolled in English 340 attended the workshop as part of their study of early modern literature and culture.
Co-directed by Professor of English Joshua Calhoun and Bold Center for Arts Administration Co-Director Sarah Marty, is a student-driven public humanities program focused on the history of media and book arts.
1UW-Madison student Libby Markgraf pounds wood to a pulp during Holding History's annual public paper making workshop on Library Mall on Sept. 29, 2022. Taylor Wolfram
2Professor Joshua Calhoun instructs student Michael Decker on the paper making process. Student organization Holding History puts on the event each year to engage students and the campus community in the hands-on work of pulling paper. Taylor Wolfram
3Master papermaker and educator Robert Pussehl has worked with Joshua Calhoun since 2014 to offer hands-on learning to students. Taylor Wolfram
4Graduate student Andie Barrow shows a workshop participant how to pull handmade paper. Taylor Wolfram
5Holding History is a student-driven public humanities program focused on the history of media and book arts. Co-founders Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty, co-director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration in the Wisconsin School of Business, work with student administrators and curators to provide mentorship to undergraduate and graduate students to share what they know with a larger audience in engaging and inspiring ways. Taylor Wolfram
6Sarah Marty, director of the Bold Center for Arts Administration in the Wisconsin School of Business, talks to students during the workshop. Students enrolled in English 340 attended the workshop as part of their study of early modern literature and culture. Taylor Wolfram
7Cole Roecker, a student helper majoring in history, English and French, works through the process of layering pulp to form paper. Taylor Wolfram
8Professor Joshua Calhoun talks to his English 430 students about the paper making process during the free public workshop. Taylor Wolfram