Tara Stallworth Lee Offers Papermaking Workshops on May 7 at the Birmingham Public Library

Birmingham, Ala. - Pulp, pull, and pour to create your own papers! Please join Tara Stallworth Lee on Tuesday, May 7, at the Birmingham Public Library for a workshop on the art of papermaking. 

Enjoy hands-on experience with fibers like denim and okra, learn techniques for forming and enhancing sheets, and experiment with inclusions, textures, and colors. Feel free to bring your own inclusions! These may comprise dried botanicals such flowers or other plants, dryer lint, scrap papers, threads, and fabrics. 

A youth workshop will take place from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., followed by one for adults from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Both workshops will be held at Central Library in the Create 205 Lab on the second floor.

Tara is the artist-in-residence at Studio By The Tracks, whose artists are featured in the exhibition A World in a Grain of Sand in the First Floor Gallery at the Central Library. 

Tara works across mediums with a concentration in analog photography, papermaking, collage, and textiles. She is the 2021-22 recipient of the Gay Burke Fellowship in Photographic Art and a studio resident at Ground Floor Contemporary. 

For over two decades, Tara has been teaching for individuals and institutions, including The Smithsonian Associates and the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project . Her works have received numerous awards and been exhibited locally, regionally, and across the country. Tara lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.

These workshops are made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts  awarded to the Friends Foundation of the Birmingham Public Library.

By Margaret Splane|Library Assistant III, Community Engagement & Fundraising