A Cosmology of Inclusions with Jaz Graf

Mixed-media artist, Jaz Graf, explores how materials collide and synthesize to convey embodied and metaphorical stories. Her love of inclusions in the papermaking process has been essential in the development of her ongoing personal mythology. Graf plays with materials and their inherent and potential meanings. She considers Thai mulberry as plantcestor, offering remedy, rumination, and reverence. Graf talks about a new body of work created at Dieu Donné’s paper studios during her West Bay View Foundation Fellowship in 2022-23. She delves into her iterative projects inspired by textiles, ancient manuscripts, and design motifs of her cultural heritage. This artist talk was recorded live on April 30, 2024.

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The artistic and educational programs at Dieu Donné are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and Foundation support including: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., The New York Community Trust, the Getty Foundation, The John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, Jockey Hollow Foundation, IFPDA Foundation, West Bay View Foundation, Windgate Charitable Foundation, and the Wolf Kahn Foundation along with in-kind support from Material for the Arts and major individual support.