In the hands of skilled artists, even the most basic of materials can glow — literally. All Ayumi Shibata needs is paper, a blade, and a light source to create otherworldly scenes packed with ...

Installation view of FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures at the Museum of Chinese in America (all images courtesy the Museum of Chinese in America) On the morning of June 6, 1993, a cargo ship named ...

The notion of creating a highly detail, refined piece of art using paper instead of clay has its distinct advantages. This is a process perfected by Rapid City S.D., artists Allen and Patty Eckman ...

There’s letter art, and then there’s Bianca Chang‘s letter art. Chang, an Australian designer, take entire reams of paper and hand-slices them, subtly altering her cuts with each page, to produce 3-D ...

From origami to quilling, paper art has the ability to take many different forms — each filled with nuance, grace and sometimes wonder. Artist Marisa Aragón Ware works on a paper sculpture on Dec. 21, ...

After a career in the sign making business, artist Jimm Jenkins is honing his skills creating his elaborate paper sculptures. He creates all kinds of characters with varying features, from limbs and ...

Maya Freelon's Reciprocity Respite & Repass at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building Courtesy of Halcyon For more than a decade, artist Maya Freelon has created striking abstract sculptures and ...

Peter Gentenaar’s art was born out of the limitations of what he could (or couldn’t) create with store-bought paper. So with the help of the Royal Dutch Paper Factory, he built his own paper factory ...

This piece is called “Process series 2 WAVE.” To create an artwork, Shlian usually first designs it on the computer and then sends the file to a flatbed plotter cutter—a tool that scores the paper ...

If you like stationery that’s practical, you have plenty of options to choose from. But if you'd prefer something that's more beautiful than pragmatic, there’s the Omoshiroi Block. According to My ...