Paper Marbling Samples and workshops

Pictures from some of my workshops and studio, and samples of my work follow.



Members of the Aldus Society watch Ann demonstrate another pattern,



and then take the plunge themselves, at a workshop in Ann's North Linden studio




2007 marks Ann's 23rd year as one of Greater Columbus Arts Council's Artists in Schools. Below, after hearing a brief history of marbling and seeing Ann demonstrate its technique and tools, students create their own papers, which are often used later as covers for journals that will house their creative writing. This program is one that Ann uses specifically to integrate art and science learning, joining with both academic and art faculty to follow up with experiments that demonstrate the chemistry of marbling--students learn not only a new and beautiful technique, but natural phenomena such as surface tension that help explain how and why marbling works, knowledge that can be used, as in a science laboratory, to control and perfect outcomes.