Jerry Johnson Collection of Wisconsin Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ephemera, 1978-2006

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Series: 1. Correspondence, 2013, 2017-2019
Scope and Content Note: 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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Correspondence, 2013
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Correspondence and ephemera, 2017
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Correspondence and ephemera, 2018
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Ephemera, 2019
Series: 2. Recipe Books, 2012-2013, 2017, 2018
Scope and Content Note: 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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Recipe Book , 2012-2013
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Recipe Book by Drew Matott , Summer 2017
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Recipe Book by Drew Matott, 2018
Series: 3. Workshop Samples, 2011 - 2018
Scope and Content Note: 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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Book sample, by Jana Schumacher and Axel Sylvester, Hamburg, Germany, 2017
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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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Prints done during the Glasgow Peace Paper Workshop , December 2016
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Paper made by Payton Hurley, from Pulp Pink event 2016-2017
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3 prints done by Andrew Vasilevsky at workshops in Minsk , 2016-2017
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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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6 prints from the Kiel Garden Refugee Camp Workshop, 2017
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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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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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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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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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Notebooks made with papers from military uniforms, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA, 2017
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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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Shein by Markus Ambrecht, Artist's binder of prints and drawings on handmade paper, Germany, 2017
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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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Night Mission Eva Polak, Muzeum Piśmiennictwa i Drukarstwa [Museum of Literature and Printing], Greboçin, Toruń County, Poland July 2018
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Silk aquatints on paper made from refugee clothing in Germany, by Drew and Kevin Matott, 2018
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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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Handmade paper made by women entrepreneurs for wrapping soap, Naya Papermaking Project, Workshop in Mumbai, India April 2018
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Nylon stencils for pulp printing, North Eastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2011-2012
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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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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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Prints on handmade paper, Veteran Paper Workshop, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, USA November 2013
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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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Prints and proofing sheet by Margaret Mahan, BluSeed Studios Papermill and printed at Free Your Mind Press October 2014
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American Flag Paper, Blu Seed Studios Papermill and Free Your Mind Press Summer 2014
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Pigmented American Flag Paper, St. Pauli Studio, Hamburg, Germany, 2016
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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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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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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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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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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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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
Series: 4. Artwork of Drew Matott, 1999
Scope and Content Note: 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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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