professional
activities, workshops, boards
National and International Activity
2022 Artist talk Printed Through Time and Space, Sures’s installation, VisArts, Rockville, MD
Featured in The Art of Paper Craft by Helen Hiebert, Sures’s installation Frasassi
Appointment, Research Associate, Drawing, National Museum of Natural History since 2018
2021 Published by the Press at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM La Mano
dell’Uomo/The Human Hand by Bruno Caruso, Handmade edition of 100 books by Tom Leech and Lynn Sures
(papermaking, printing, binding, translation)
Featured in ARTACTIONS, a special interview and gallery segment of Inter-Actions,
the interdisciplinary digital quarterly published by LILA Foundation for
Translocal Initiatives, INDIA https://lilainteractions.in/meeting-time-immemorial/ and
https://lilainteractions.in/variations-on-the-dialectic-between-mingus-and-pithecanthropus-erectus/ for the EVOLUTION issue.
Presenter, “Recent Trends: Handmade Paper in the Arts” lecture at International
Symposium 20th CenturyWashi: Jugaku Bunshō—The Person and His
Work, Muko City, Kyoto, JAPAN
Panel chair, “Working with Paper/Pulp in a Time of Change,” IAPMA Congress,
Toyota, JAPAN
Author, “The Expansive Helen Frederick,” Hand Papermaking Magazine, Winter 2020-1
2020 President of North American Hand Papermakers, the national papermaking organization, since 2018
2019 Artist panel American University Museum at Katzen Center, Topographies of Life exhibition
Paper Talk podcast, Lynn Sures interviewed by Helen Hiebert
http://helenhiebertstudio.com/products/podcast/lynn-sures/
2018 Appointment as Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, WDC
Anthropology Seminar Series lecture on SARF project, “Points of Convergence between
Human Origins and Art,” National Museum of Natural History, WDC
President of the national papermaking organization, Friends of Dard Hunter through 2020
Artist Residency at Carriage House Paper, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Artist Research Residency at Olorgesailie, Kenya prehistoric research and excavation site
2016 Recipient of 2016 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
Lecture on personal art practice at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Guest Editor, Winter 2016 Hand Papermaking Magazine, Italian Papermaking
Panelist Georgetown University Own-It Women’s Leadership Summit Wash. DC
2015 Artist Residency at Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Capellades, SPAIN
Artist Residency at l’Accademia delle arti Cartarie, Fabriano, ITALY
Lecture on personal art practice at the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SPAIN
2014 Author “Common Descent” Central Booking Magazine and Catalog, NYC
Panelist “Art and Evolution: a Work in Progress”, Central Booking Gallery, NYC
Convenor of 2014 Congress of IAPMA, International Association of Artists and Hand
Papermakers, Fabriano, Italy
2013 Commission - 200 Broadsides for University of Chicago Performing Arts Center
2012 Director Watermarking Master Symposium,Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
Curator “Veteran Made: Selections from the Combat Paper Project” exhibition at
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Corcoran/Pittman resident artist, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2011 Panel chair “Papermaking—Why We Don't Play Close to the Vest” and
Demonstrator Sculptural Paper Pulp Spraying, at Southern Graphics
Council annual meeting, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Panel chair “An Illustrated Guide to the Papermaker’s Universe” College Book Art
Association annual meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2010 Director, Pulp Painting Master Symposium,Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Presenter, Pulp Painting Demonstration, Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts, TURKEY
Artist Residency at Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2009 Artist Residency at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
2008 Artist Residency at Hand Print Workshop International, Alexandria, VA
2006 American Artist Abroad, U.S. State Department Art In Embassies Program:
slide lectures, workshops and artists studio visits in Colombo, SRI LANKA
2002 Presenter, “Paper Garden”, 36th Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, Washington,
DC, pulp painting demonstrations
VISITING ARTIST POSITIONS AND WORKSHOPS TAUGHT
2019 School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Tufts University), Boston, MA
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, ITALY, co-director and instructor for “Paper, Print, Book” sponsored by the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano
2017 Papermaking and Pulp Painting workshop at Stables Gallery, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM
2016 Penland School, Penland, NC “Large Scale and Sculptural Papermaking”
2015 Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Workshop, Capellades, SPAIN
2014 Washington University in St. Louis, Visiting Critic and Visiting Artist, St. Louis, MO
2013 Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, workshop “The Sculptural Book”
2003-2013 University of the Arts, Philadelphia,PA, Visiting lecturer Book Arts MFA Program
2012 UNAM, Mexico City, workshop for students
2010 Isik University, Istanbul, TURKEY, workshop for students
IMOGA, Istanbul, TURKEY, workshop for graphic artists
2007 Penland School, Penland, NC “Sculpting with Handmade Paper” (also 2003)
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Riverdale, MD “Dimensional Paper” (also 2003, 2000, 1999, 1998 workshops in book arts)
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, ITALY, coordinator and instructor for “Paper, Print, Book Intensive” sponsored by UArts, Philadelphia, PA
2006 University of Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo, SRI LANKA “Pulp Painting”
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Resident, Fabriano, ITALY
Pyramid Atlantic Summer Intensive, Silver Spring, MD “Pulp Painting”
2005 Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, Visiting Artist in Residence and Graduate Coordinator, spring semester
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, ITALY Workshops in papermaking sponsored by American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA (also 2004, 2003)
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Visiting Artist, Kyoto, JAPAN “Pulp Painting”
2004 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME “Sculpting with Handmade Paper”
Abbazia di Spineto “Campi di Carta—Papermaking in the Landscape”, Sarteano, ITALY (also 2003, 2002, 2001)
2003 Arrowmont School of Art & Craft, Gatlinburg, TN “Color, Paper, Action—Pulp Painting” (also 2000, 1994, 1991, 1989 papermaking workshops)
2002 Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshops, University of SD, Vermillion, SD
Carriage House Paper, Brooklyn, NY “Flax Makes Books” (also 2001)
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Slide lecture and workshop
2001 North Country Studio Conference, Bennington College, VT “Paper into Books”
2000 Paper/Book Intensive, Oxbow, MI “Pulp Painting”
Il Bisonte International Graphics School, Florence, ITALY “Papermaking” lectures
1999 Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX “Pulp Painting”
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA “Pulp Painting”
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA “Paper for Printmaking”
1996 Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA “Pulp Painting”
BOARDS - MEMBERSHIPS
2023 Hand Papermaking Magazine Board of Directors
2018-2020 President of North American Hand Papermakers
1989-2010 - Member, Friends of Dard Hunter, National Papermakers Association
2010-present Board of North American World Craft Council
1999 to present - Member, International Artists and Papermakers Association, IAPMA
2008 - Member , College Book Art Association
Member since 2010, Southern Graphics Council International
2000-5 and Emeritus Board of Directors, Hand Papermaking Magazine
2000-2012 - Advisory Board, American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
2003-6 - Advisory Board, Hunter Howell Fellowship in Papermaking
2006, 09, 10 - Member, Guild of Book Workers, National Association
2006 - Member, James Renwick Alliance
2003-2009 - Member, Washington Sculptors Group;
2003-2011 - Member, Washington Project for the Arts
1999 - Member College Art Association
1989-2010 - Member, Friends of Dard Hunter, National Papermakers Association