This workshop will thoroughly investigate the three-dimensional potential of handmade paper and paper pulp. Through hands-on experimentation, you will come to understand the natural delicacy, resilience, texture, and organic qualities of natural paper fibers. Working directly with wire, reed, and found objects, you will build simple armatures as foundations for dipping and pouring pulp, as well as stretching 3D-formed sheets. You will also learn about paper casting methods and will leave with practical strategies for continuing this work in your own studios with minimal tools and equipment.

Workshop schedule TBD

Instructor Bio

Sally C. Garner is a fiber artist currently exploring the various opposing forces between nature and humanity through site-specific installation, experimental basketry, traditional weaving and papermaking. Sally’s work examines our relationship to our environment and the effects we have on the balances in the natural ecosystem through the symbolic manipulation of the hand within her textile craft. Sally holds an MFA in Textiles from Georgia State University and a BFA in Sculpture from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has been teaching a variety of textile techniques over the past ten years in both academic classroom and workshop settings, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and The Appalachian Center for Craft in Tennessee. Her work has received awards from ArtFields, Fiber Art Now, the National Basketry Organization, and Surface Design Association. Sally is a recipient of the 2025-2026 Artist Creative Fund, a project-based grant provided to 20 artists living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Confab 2026 will feature two workshops. Information regarding the second workshop is coming soon.