Virtual Education
Online Public Programs
Dieu Donné offers educational webinars, artist talks, and panel discussions that explore the art of hand papermaking and the collaborative artistic process. Open to a global virtual audience, these programs provide insight into the craft and the collaborative artistic process.
Video recordings of past webinars are available on Dieu Donné’s YouTube Channel.
Our online public programs are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and generous foundation and individual support.
Upcoming Online Events
Paper Samples from University of Iowa Project
Preserving our National Treasures: Handmade papers for the Charters of Freedom and the Library of Congress with Paul Wong and Timothy Barrett
Wednesday December 3, 2025 from 12–1pm ET
In this virtual talk, Timothy Barrett will give an overview of how his team at the University of Iowa Center for the Book produced paper for the reencasement of the Charters of Freedom (The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and The Declaration of Independence), Barrett will share decisions related to raw fiber sourcing, water quality, cooking, beating, and additives employed when making archival papers for this project and others. He will also share his view of factors that impact the aesthetics of papers made for use in the conservation of rare books and works of art. Paul Wong will discuss his experiences with developing conservation-quality papers at Dieu Donné. Working with the Library of Congress, the Newberry Library, and conservators and bookbinders in private practice, Wong refined techniques to create sheets that matched the conservators' needs for endpapers and paper case bindings. Building on this research Dieu Donné created custom papers for many years that were used to rebind national treasures in our libraries. Both speakers will discuss the delicate balance of aesthetics, function, and long term stability that make this kind of work both fascinating and challenging.
Moderated by Dieu Donné Director of Artistic Projects & Master Collaborator Tatiana Ginsberg.
About Paul Wong
Paul Wong was the Artistic Director at Dieu Donné from 1978 to 2017, guiding and assisting over 1,000 artists and collaborating one-on-one with 400 artists such as Lesley Dill, Jim Hodges, and Do Ho Suh, among many others. During the 1980s and 90s he and the team at Dieu Donné developed specific papers for conservation purposes, including the Library of Congress’s Endpaper Project, and went on to produce custom archival papers for many years. In recognition of his work as an individual artist, Wong has been the recipient of many awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, among others. He uses the papermaking techniques that he developed at Dieu Donné in his own work to create major installations and works in paper for exhibitions at institutions such as the Plains Museum, Fargo, and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
About Timothy Barrett
Timothy Barrett is professor emeritus in the University of Iowa Center for the Book and the School of Library and Information Science. Following a Fulbright Fellowship studying papermaking in Japan, his research on early European handmade papers was funded by the NEA, the Kress Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services and a MacArthur Fellowship. His primary research interests have been Japanese papermaking, early European papermaking technology, the role of gelatin in paper permanence, and aesthetics in handmade paper. Specialized handmade papers produced by Barrett and his students were designed for use by fine press printers, book artists, and conservators of rare books and works of art on paper. Barrett is author of three books, one website, eight videos, and thirty-six articles or book chapters on the history, technique, science, and aesthetics of hand papermaking. He was director of the UI Center for the Book between 1996 and 2002 and again became director in the fall of 2012 until his retirement in May of 2020.
Process and Practice: Sam Moyer in Conversation
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from 12–1 pm ET
Join Dieu Donné virtually for artist Sam Moyer in conversation with Director of Artistic Projects & Master Collaborator Tatiana Ginsberg.
2024–25 Lab Grant Residency Artist Sam Moyer will discuss her experience working at Dieu Donné to develop her first series of handmade paper works. In her series Soft Mods, she used alternating layers of translucent abaca and pigmented cotton, in shades of Payne’s grey. Her large-scale window installation for the Hill Art Foundation used an open lattice structure to allow light to come through and interact with Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture Woman with Holes II. Working intuitively, Moyer manipulated paper pulp in a sculptural way, creating images that seem composed of light and shadow.
About Sam Moyer
Sam Moyer (b. 1983, Chicago, Illinois) earned a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in national and international exhibitions at the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; the Drawing Center, New York; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the Hill Art Foundation, New York; LAND, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, Queens; the Parrish Art Museum, New York; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri.
Recent one-person exhibitions include Subject to change (2025) at Sean Kelly, New York, Circle of Confusion (2023) at Blum & Poe, LA, Memory Mine (2023) at the Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, Relief (2022) at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, and Good Friend(2021) at Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles. Her large-scale outdoor sculpture Doors for Doris(2020), commissioned by Public Art Fund, was on view in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York from September 2020 - October 2021.
Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts; Jiménez-Colón Collection, Puerto Rico; the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Moyer currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
https://www.skny.com/artists/sam-moyer
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Past Online Events + Workshops
Video recordings of past webinars are available on Dieu Donné’s YouTube Channel.
Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking (2021)
“Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking” was a virtual lecture series featuring papermakers from around the world. The series explored both historic and contemporary approaches to papermaking through talks by individuals with expertise in papermaking in Japan, Korea, India, Chile, and Spain. Among the topics discussed were traditional fibers, tools, and papermaking techniques, as well as contemporary trends in production papermaking and artistic experimentation.
Special thanks to the Windgate Foundation for their generous support for Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking.
Past online lectures can be viewed here, with closed captioning available for each.
Remote & Online Learning
Papermaking lectures are available by our Professional studio staff for a small fee. Our staff works with each instructor directly to gear the presentation and talk to their particular interests.
Various pricing options are available, with lengths of lectures varying from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. Remote lectures can be done by Zoom or other preferred group video call platforms.
To schedule a class, please email dieudonne@dieudonne.org.