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1. Workshop on Blue Paper, 22-26 September 2025, Moulin du Verger, France
2. RE: A Sad News: In Memoriam: Marco Grassi
3. Journal of The Walters Art Museum now free and searchable online
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1.From: Leila Sauvage
Posted: Wednesday April 30, 2025 6:14 AM
Subject: Workshop on Blue Paper, 22-26 September 2025, Moulin du Verger, France
Message: Dear all,
The whole team is very excited to announce the 2025 edition of the Handmade
blue paper workshop. Join us in the beautiful Charente region for a week rich
in discoveries, with nice food and good company. This year, we have renewed the
program, thanks to our new collaboration with Edina Adam, Assistant Curator of
Drawings at the J. Paul getty Museum.
Dates: September 22-26, 2025
Location: Moulin du Verger, Puymoyen, France (near Angouleme)
Registration fee: 1200 EUR (materials incl., accommodation and food excl.)
Max. 6 participants
Workshop description:
Organized in a functioning 16th-century papermill in the South of France, this
5 day-workshop offers participants the opportunity to experiment with
pre-industrial papermaking and dyeing methods. Fed by years of research in the
field of blue paper, the team shares their last findings on the manufacturing
of Western blue paper and its possible uses throughout time. Participants will
be making their own reference sheets, with various coloring methods. The
workshop allows time for discussion, participants are encouraged to bring their
questions to share with the team.
Workshop objectives:
Discovering traditional Western papermaking techniques
Preparing blue dyes from natural colorants
Identifying paper- and dyeing techniques from samples
Uses of blue paper by artists in Europe (prints, drawings,books) between 1400
and 1800.
More information: www.bluepaperresearch.org/events
<https://www.bluepaperresearch.org/events>
Questions and registration: [email protected] <[email protected]>
The Blue Paper Research Consortium (Jacques Brejoux, Didier Navarot, Nadine
Dumain, Philippe Chazelle, Edina Adam, Leila Sauvage)
2.From: Rosa Lowinger
Posted: Wednesday April 30, 2025 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: A Sad News: In Memoriam: Marco Grassi
Message: And a brilliant writer as well. A sad loss in the field.
Rosa Lowinger, F-AIC, FAPT, FAAR 09Founder/ Principal ConservatorRLA
Conservation of Art + Architecture <http://www.rlaconservation.com>
Miami Los Angeles
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New Yorker on Dwell Time
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-woman-restoring-basquiats-forgotten-ferris-wheel>
Kirkus Starred Review of Dwell Time
<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rosa-lowinger/dwell-time/>
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Original Message:
Sent: 4/29/2025 7:08:00 PM
From: Miklos Bansaghi
Subject: A Sad News: In Memoriam: Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi, the legendary New York art expert and restorer, passed away on
March 30th at the age of 90. He was a truly exceptional man whose enormous
passion for art and paintings naturally bridged the two main realms of the
field so often separated: the material side-such as conservation and scientific
analysis-and the artistic, spiritual, and historical side, typically the domain
of art historians and curators.
Of course, alongside passion, an immense depth of knowledge was also essential
to achieve such a rare synthesis. In his daily work, the combination of all
those above-mentioned elements-like in some kind of artistic fusion
reactor-generated a blissful energy that illuminated his life and inspired many
of us around him.
I had the privilege of working for and with him for 14 years, during the height
of his career. Knowing him and his family so well was the greatest honor of my
life.
I close with the words he said to me at the end of every workday for those 14
years: Thank you!
May his curiosity, passion, dedication, and kindness live on among us.
3.From: Gregory Bailey
Posted: Wednesday April 30, 2025 4:53 PM
Subject: Journal of The Walters Art Museum now free and searchable online
Message: The Walters Art Museum is excited to announce that all back issues of
the Journal of the Walters Art Museum-the oldest continuously published
scholarly art museum journal in the U.S.-are now digitized, searchable, and
free to access on the JWAM website. From the very first issue in 1938 to the
latest, the full archive is now easy to explore and available to everyone. To
browse the archive, visit journal.thewalters.org
<https://journal.thewalters.org/> and use the top-right navigation button to
select "other volumes."
Gregory Bailey
He/Him
Senior Objects Conservator
Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
www.thewalters.org <http://www.thewalters.org>
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