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14x16" paper and card stock on vintage book cover.

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8.5x11" paper and card stock.

Part of the flavor of ethnic restaurant comes from the atmosphere invoked by light and color and music. At this Mexican restaurant with some specialties from Veracruz part of the color comes from cut paper art strung across the ceiling and the scenes painted on wall plates and the framed landscape in bright paints. What to visitors looks exotic might to natives of the place look like home.

In the city of Grand Rapids are many resettled refugees, immigrants and first-generation children of immigrants. Agencies that facilitate resettlement, along with mutual aid societies, seem to prefer regional cities less than 1/2 a million people since places too small offer fewer services and job prospects, while places too big are logistically overwhelming to travel long distances from home to work and back. As a result, ethnic food businesses are relatively plentiful and varied around the city, since opening a public venue for dining is something where language and culture ability are less important than food skill and business acumen. In other words, of the many kinds of small business, food-related ones are often a good way to support a family in a strange country like the USA is for people moving in from other parts of the world.

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Collaborative paperweaving, using prismacolor painting by Linda Pearson, woven with variegated cotton threads, macramé knotting. Framed in honey wood edge frame with plexiglass. 21" x 25" 2023
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Cut Paper Art from the Janelle Washington Art Show held in the Sekel Art Atrium, March 2023

Cut Paper Art from the Janelle Washington Art Show held in the Sekel Art Atrium, March 2023

Caldecott Honor Winning Illustrator Janelle Washington presents on her book Choosing Brave during a Lunch and Learn, March 2023

Cut Paper Art from the Janelle Washington Art Show held in the Sekel Art Atrium, March 2023

Cut Paper Art from the Janelle Washington Art Show held in the Sekel Art Atrium, March 2023

Caldecott Honor Winning Illustrator Janelle Washington presents on her book Choosing Brave during a Lunch and Learn, March 2023

Cut Paper Art from the Janelle Washington Art Show held in the Sekel Art Atrium, March 2023

John Owens (Library Archivist) and Illustrator Janelle Washington following her Lunch and Learn event for the book Choosing Brave, March 2023

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This is a closeup of part of the front of an Anniversary Card my dear husband gave me (our 33rd). Two birds together in a tree.
I love the intricacy of the paper art. He knew I would.

The message was "Together is such a beautiful word".

This is quite a slide, since I did a lot of changing of colors, and actually did some painting to sharpen some bad focus.

5x7" handmade collage card (w/ envelope.)
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