Congratulations to Timothy Barrett, master papermaker and paper historian, who is one of twenty-four recipients of the five-hundred-thousand-dollar “genius awards,” announced this morning by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. See more: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/people/staff/Barrett/Barrett.shtml and the papermaking studio: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/facilities/paper/index.shtml
Timothy Barrett, Nagashizuki: the Japanese craft of hand papermaking (North Hills, Pa.: Bird & Bull Press, 1979) Graphic Arts Collection (GAX), TS1109 .B267