Summary Information
Peace Paper Project Records 1999-2019
- Peace Paper Project(Organization)
UWM Manuscript Collection 358
5.2 cubic ft. (3 binders, 6 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 1 roll)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
This collection consists of both process materials and finished
works of workshops and interventions led by the Peace Paper Project, mostly handmade paper
and print samples. The collection also includes some sample papers, prints, and books
created by interns and some items created independently by artists associated with the Peace
Paper Project. The collection includes recipe books for paper as well as correspondence from
co-founder Drew Matott written to Max Yela, Head of the UWM Special Collections
department. English
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Biography/History
Peace Paper Project is an international community-arts initiative that utilizes traditional
hand papermaking as a form of trauma therapy, social engagement, and community activism.
Peace Paper Project was founded by papermakers and book artists Margaret Mahan and Drew
Matott, along with art therapist Gretchen Miller, in 2011. Since 2011, Peace Paper Project
has conducted hundreds of workshops worldwide in conjunction with community leaders, mental
health professionals, and art therapists. Peace Paper Project has helped launch numerous
other paper making programs that also use papermaking as a form of healing and community
engagement.
Peace Paper Project maintains the St. Pauli Studio in Hamburg, Germany as their base of
operations, but through their portable studio model are able to travel internationally and
host workshops and interventions in public spaces. Peace Paper Project has a number of
long-standing initiatives, notably projects with veterans, refugees, Panty-Pulping, and Pulp
Pink, started by former intern Payton Hurley. More information about specific initiatives,
exhibitions, and the printing and pulping processes used can be found on the Peace Paper
Project website at: www.peacepaperproject.org.
As of 2019, the directors of the Peace Paper Project include artist-activist Drew Matott,
art therapist and trauma practitioner Gretchen Miller, and educator and photographer Stephen
DeSantis. The project is run through collaborations with artists, art therapists,
tool-makers, and institutions all over the world and more information about individuals and
institutions involved can be found on their website.
Scope and Content Note
Scope and content notes for each series are included in the contents list.
Arrangement of the Materials
The records are arranged into the following series:
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Correspondence, 2013,
2017-2019
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Recipe Books, 2012-2013, 2017,
2018
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Workshop Samples, 2011-2018
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Artwork of Drew Matott,
1999
The records are arranged into the following series: The items are organized chronologically
within each series. Oversized items are separated out but also arranged chronologically.
Preferred Citation
Citation Guide for Primary Sources
Related Material in the UWM Libraries
Margaret Mahan. Lights over the Mahabodhi. Call
number (SPL)(BROAD) BQ6480 .M363x 2012.
Drew Luan Matott. Deployed. Call number
(SPL)(BROAD) N8260 .M383x 2010.
Drew Luan Matott. Compasion. Call number
(SPL)(BROAD) N8234 .P43 M38x 2012.
Drew Luan Matott. Night Watch. Call number
(SPL)(BROAD) N8260 .M385x 2012.
Drew Luan Matott. Allowing Wisdom. Call number
(SPL)(BROAD) N8260 M38x 2012.
Margaret Mahan and Drew Luan Matott.
Unmentionables: (or mentionables). Call number (SPL)(BKRT)(FOL) N7433.4 .M29x U56
2013..
Margaret Mahan and Drew Luan Matott. [Veteran
student organization ledger].Call number (SPL)(BKRT)(FOP) UB357 .M35x
2012.
Drew Luan Matott. Papel de la Paz.Call number
(SPL)(BKRT) N7433.4 .M32x P37 2012..
Administrative/Restriction Information
There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all
members of the public in accordance with state law.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel,
privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin
Statutes 19.21-19.39).
Acquired from Peace Paper Project beginning in 2013.
Katie Stollenwerk processed this collection in Special Collections in June 2019.
Contents List
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Series: 1. Correspondence, 2013, 2017-2019 : This series includes letters, postcards, and ephemera, beginning in 2013, sent from
co-founder Drew Matott to Max Yela, Head of the UWM Special Collections department. The
correspondence documents the global nature of the project as the artists travel to
conduct workshops, interventions and artist residencies with international
communities.
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Box
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Folder
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Correspondence, 2013
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Box
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Folder
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Correspondence and ephemera, 2017
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Box
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Folder
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Correspondence and ephemera, 2018
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Box
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Folder
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Ephemera, 2019
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Series: 2. Recipe Books, 2012-2013, 2017, 2018 : This series includes recipe books, which are spiral bound volumes documenting the
papermaking formulas of each workshop and intervention. In addition to a sample of the
paper produced, recipes often include swatches of the cloth used and other miscellaneous
ephemera.
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Binder
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Recipe Book , 2012-2013
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Binder
2
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Recipe Book by Drew Matott , Summer 2017
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Binder
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Recipe Book by Drew Matott, 2018
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Series: 3. Workshop Samples, 2011 - 2018 : This series includes the products of workshop participants and include numerous prints
and paper samples from dozens of workshops held over the world, dating from 2012.
Workshop creations might also include other types of materials, such as artist's books.
For example, a laser cut book cover with live edge spine and handmade paper, created by
Jana Schumacher and Axel Sylvester during a workshop merging papermaking as personal
transformation and laser cutting in Hamburg, Germany, 2017. Workshop samples also
include materials made during events and initiatives run by interns of the Peace Paper
Project. For example, there are papers from Pulp Pink, an event created by intern Payton
Hurley for breast cancer survivors, family, and friends which uses the pink t-shirts of
survivors for the paper pulp.
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Box
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Folder
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Book sample, by Jana Schumacher and Axel Sylvester, Hamburg, Germany,
2017
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Box
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Folder
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Sample prints of Panty Pulping manifestos. Includes a letter from Margaret
Mahan addressed to Panty Pulpers of the 2014 Manifest Urban Arts Festival of Columbia
College in Chicago, Illinois.
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Box
2
Folder
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Prints done during the Glasgow Peace Paper Workshop , December
2016
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Box
2
Folder
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Paper made by Payton Hurley, from Pulp Pink event
2016-2017
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Box
2
Folder
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3 prints done by Andrew Vasilevsky at workshops in Minsk
, 2016-2017
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Box
2
Folder
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Pretty in Pinkseries which portrays Trump's
2016-2017 cabinet. Created at the St. Pauli Studio in Hamburg, Germany
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Box
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Folder
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6 prints from the Kiel Garden Refugee Camp
Workshop, 2017
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Box
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Folder
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3Paper Journals Made from Refugee Clothing in
Germany, 2017. Letterpress printing done in Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Binding done by University of Vermont book art students,
2017
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Box
2
Folder
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Paper made by participants of a summer festival in Ölmühlenpark,
Karoviertel, Hamburg, Germany July 2017. Includes postcard
announcement about the festival.
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Box
2
Folder
9
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Stamp Out Stigma, Portraits from the Seaway House
Members, pulp printing on handmade paper by Kevin and Drew Matott,
Ogdensburg, NY, USA, 2017
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Box
2
Folder
10
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We are Resilience, pulp printing on paper made
from Jacob Linholm's U.S. Marine Corps Dress Uniform and Desert Camouflage Uniform by
Drew Matott, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA,
USA, 2017
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Box
2
Folder
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Notebooks made with papers from military uniforms, Gonzaga University,
Spokane, WA, USA, 2017
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Box
3
Folder
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Mostly linoleum block prints of refugees by Kevin Kipp Matott, printed on
paper made by Drew Matott and students. A few prints are "Pulp-Sprayed" done in the
Peace Paper Project workshops. Folder also includes artist's information
sheet.
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Box
3
Folder
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Shein by Markus Ambrecht, Artist's binder of
prints and drawings on handmade paper, Germany, 2017
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Box
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Folder
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Artist's proof prints of Linoleum Blocks of Refugees
Our Way There. Letterpress printed on handmade paper during a St. Lawrence
University Artist Residency, Canton, NY, USA, 2017
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Box
4
Folder
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Night Mission Eva Polak, Muzeum
Piśmiennictwa i Drukarstwa [Museum of Literature and Printing], Greboçin,
Toruń County, Poland July 2018
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Box
4
Folder
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Silk aquatints on paper made from refugee clothing in Germany, by Drew and
Kevin Matott, 2018
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Box
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Folder
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Prints on handmade paper from workshops held at the Harburg Refugee Camp and
Bergedorf Refugee Camp in Hamburg, Germany, 2018
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Box
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Folder
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Handmade paper made by women entrepreneurs for wrapping soap, Naya
Papermaking Project, Workshop in Mumbai, India April 2018
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Box
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Folder
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Nylon stencils for pulp printing, North Eastern Illinois University, Chicago,
IL 2011-2012
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Box
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Folder
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Prints on handmade paper from "Uniform to University; Celebrating GW Veterans
Through Papermaking" Student Veteran Workshop at George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., USA November 2012
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Box
5
Folder
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I am a Force of Creation and I am a Survivor, prints on handmade paper done with St.
Lawrence Psychiatric Center (Seaway House Outpatient Mental Health Services)
Ogdensburg, NY, USA, 2013
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Box
5
Folder
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Prints on handmade paper, Veteran Paper Workshop, Lubeznik Center for the
Arts, Michigan City, IN, USA November 2013
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Box
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Folder
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Miscellaneous prints from 2014, including prints on spent grain paper, a
promotional print about Pedal Power!, and 2 prints signed by Drew Matott.
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Box
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Folder
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Prints and proofing sheet by Margaret Mahan, BluSeed Studios Papermill and
printed at Free Your Mind Press October 2014
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Box
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American Flag Paper, Blu Seed Studios
Papermill and Free Your Mind Press Summer 2014
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Box
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Folder
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Pigmented American Flag Paper, St. Pauli Studio, Hamburg, Germany,
2016
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Box
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Folder
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Selections from Panty Pulping Workshops done at U.S.
Universities, made from pulped underwear and abaca fibers
2016-2017
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Box
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Folder
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Print done by Claude on Hamburg Refugee Paper with petals, at the Anne Frank
Festival Exhibition (October 2018), and exhibition announcements from Czurles-Nelson
Gallery at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, USA Fall of
2018
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Box
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Paper Roses, made from handmade paper made by
the Peace Paper Project. Roses made by Laura and Malachi Muncy, Butterfield Press, San
Marcos, TX, USA, 2017
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Oversize Folder
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Spent Grain Paper, Skinny Dipper IPA, St. Lawrence Brewing Company, produced
during a Pedal Power! workshop conducted at St. Lawrence Brewing Company, Canton, New
York, USA, 2014
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Oversize Folder
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Syrian Refugee Project, pulp prints done on
paper made from refugee clothing, made at the St. Pauli Studio, Hamburg, Germany
2017-2018
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Oversize Folder
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Clothing (2 skirts and 2 shirts) made by Jana Schumacher from handmade paper
made by the Peace Paper Project. Also a Guest-In-Residence Poster for the Peace Paper
Project residency at Unit One/Allen Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
IL, USA October 2017
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Series: 4. Artwork of Drew Matott, 1999 : This series includes a number of items created by Drew Matott from his time in school
at Buffalo State College in New York. This includes wet-trap transfer plates and prints
of Wall Street Times and From
Above. These were printed on scavenged materials: TyVek House Wrap, cloth, and
a semi-absorbent Tyvek-style material. The imagery was created by projecting old 1980's
film strips onto different substrate material (plywood, cardboard, and pegboard),
tracing the images, cutting and printing by hand as relief prints. The process, as
explained by the artist: "The process I used was to ink the plate, relief print onto the
TyVek, bedsheet or mystery material and then take another material cardboard, plywood,
pegboard...coat it with clear polyurethane, lay the freshly printed transfer material
onto the plate and burnish the back of the transfer material using a baren and spoon.
The ink would be captured by the urethane and drawn into the new substrate. The finished
pieces I really liked and at first, threw away the transfer plates, then I realized I
liked the transfer plates as much as the finished pieces, especially how the ink would
bleed and run, giving a sense of melting in a way..." It also includes Pegboard Nude aka Born From the
City and an untitled landscape drawing. Born From the
City is a pegboard reduction print on construction paper. The image was
derived from a drawing done by the artist during a figure drawing class at Buffalo State
College. Our print is number 4 of 10. The untitled landscape print is a twice printed
image, derived from a 35 mm print, taken at Waterman Hill in Canton, New York, USA. The
process as described by the artist, "The plate was printed twice, once fully inked, then
again with re-inking, the mysterious substrate material I spray painted to give it a
background. This was before I learned how to do this kind of technique with paper pulp."
These were done by Drew Matott during an independent study course on large format
printmaking, under the direction of Peter Sowiski and Paul Martin at Buffalo State
College, Spring 1999.
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Wet-trap transfer plates and prints of Wall Street
Times and From Above, by Drew Matott under
the direction of Peter Sowiski and Paul Martin, Buffalo State College Spring
1999
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Oversize Folder
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Pegboard Nude aka Born
From the City and an untitled landscape drawing, by Drew Matott under the
direction of Peter Sowiski and Paul Martin, Buffalo State College Spring
1999
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