The process is simple, explains silhouette artist Karl Johnson. "Basically, I just cut away everything that doesn't look like him," he says, a tiny smile playing at the corner of his mouth. But ...

Long before Kara Walker, there were many folk artists practicing the tradition of cut-paper silhouettes. Pictured above is one page from an album of black paper scenes created by a young girl in ...

Constance Andrews is a living reminder that age is a state of mind. The 98-year-old former Eldred Township teacher practices the art of Scherenschnitte, also known as paper cutting. But that falls far ...

1 Find a photograph of a loved one in an active pose. Maybe cousin Mark is running toward the camera, or niece Sarah is jumping on the bed? Or gather friends and stage new shots specifically for this ...

Kara Walker is one of America’s most brilliant and well-known contemporary artists. Her work has been shown from the Whitney Museum in New York to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and everywhere ...

Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

An artist is only limited by their imagination and the borders of their canvas – so what happens when you take one of those constraints away? That’s essentially what happened when Erik Ruin was handed ...

Photographer and designer David A. Reeves creates, stages, and photographs these miniature vignettes of characters violently fighting one another with weapons. While many of them are slightly morbid, ...

Long time ago, glassware was very expensive. Instead, people would paste a kind of Korean paper to their window frames. When the New Year came, people would paste once again to give it a new look. But ...

In the field survey, it is known that children lack after-school learning space; villagers lack leisure exchange places; the local paper-cut artists need work and exhibition space. Therefore, two ...