In the spirit of fostering creativity and learning, the Morgan Conservatory is excited to welcome you to a season of enriching experiences! Spring has sprung, and so has the perfect time to bloom creatively with our intro workshops! These workshops focus on building knowledge and introductory skills within each of the Morgan’s studio areas. Though very few of our workshops […]
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Winter Season Workshop Launch The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation is thrilled to announce the winter season workshops for 2024. This winter, we will host a hybrid workshop season that incorporates in-person and virtual workshops. We strive to preserve traditional practices in hand papermaking, letterpress printing, and the art of the book, while cultivating contemporary artwork made […]
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In case you haven’t heard, last year Zygote joined forces with Praxis Fiber Workshop and SPACES Gallery to have a group Holiday Sale – and just recently, the Morgan Art of Papermaking joined too! That’s right, all FOUR organizations will be holding a Holiday Members’ Showcase across all four locations! The exhibitions open Friday, December 1 and run through Saturday, […]
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As the Morgan Conservatory has grown over the years, so has it changed. Our first goal was to preserve the arts of hand papermaking, bookbinding, and printmaking. In doing so, we’ve brought those arts into the 21st century by educating about and exploring the future possibilities of these “old school” techniques. This year, our fifteenth anniversary is more of a […]
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Looking toward the spring of 2023, we will be exhibiting the next installment of our juried exhibition, entitled Moments of Transformation. Our 11th Annual Juried Exhibition includes artists from all across the country exhibiting works that are at least fifty percent paper, to keep our Morgan mission at the center! The invention of paper was a catalyst to the surge […]
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Nicole Malcolm’s solo show Please Come To My Party is among the most “meta” exhibits we’ve seen in some time. At several levels it is a show about the artist’s life: Malcolm’s work is nostalgic, exploring her personal trajectory and sentiments. The exhibit draws partly on work made while she was a student at Ohio University, and partly on work […]
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At the Morgan this winter, we are feeling grateful for our community of supporters after our annual Kozo harvest. The art of papermaking has a long and interesting history that can be traced to ancient China and the bark of the kozo plant over 2,000 years ago. Kozo, also called the paper mulberry plant, is the same type of fiber […]
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The end of summer moving into fall brings a whole new brand of excitement to the Morgan. We will be hosting our next gallery exhibition following the success of the second installment of the CAN Triennial. Sustain, Innovate, Transform is a project of the Morgan Conservatory and the Pittsburgh Print Group, featuring artwork incorporating paper made by hand at the […]
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We have exciting events coming to the Morgan this summer. First among them is the return of our Open House! Prior to the pandemic, our open houses would bring the community together, sharing our studios and history of papermaking and The Morgan. We had such a ball during the return of our Open House May 14. In conjunction with this […]
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This year marks the tenth annual National Juried Exhibition at The Morgan Conservatory, which celebrates the paper arts. This year’s show was juried by Sienna Brown, curator at the Cleveland Clinic, and Jared Ledesma, senior curator at the Akron Art Museum. Through the theme of Introspection/Retrospection, several works draw inspiration from the periods of isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
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