Port Angeles Fine Art Center
Paper & Paste
September 25th - November 8th, 2026 | Entry: Free/By Donation
Paper & Paste is an exhibition about transformation—how something as simple as a sheet of paper can become a world of its own.
Here, artists fold, cut, layer, and glue to push paper beyond its familiar boundaries. Sheets transform into sculptural forms; cutouts open into delicate windows of light and space. Every surface holds the possibility of a new form. In these works, paper becomes both structure and story, both surface and substance.
Paper & Paste invites you to discover how the simplest of materials can be reshaped into imaginative new stories.
Workshops, Opportunities, & Events
Opening Reception
Friday, September 25th | 5PM-7PM | Entry: Free | Drinks & Free Lite Bites Available!
Paper Mache Mask Workshop
Saturday, September 26th & Sunday, 27th | Register Online
An Introduction to Oneiriframes: Paper Cut Light Box Workshop
Saturday, October 24th | 1PM-4PM | PAFAC Member: $85 | Non-Member: $90 | Ages: 18+
Featured Artists:
Brittany Otto is a paper artist known for combining layered paper and light into shadowbox sculptures that she calls Oneiroframes. Based in Seattle, Washington since 2012, she explored a variety of artistic media by creating dramatic and detailed costumes before finding her passion for paper sculpture. The first pieces she ever made in 2016 was a gift for her future husband. Since then, she has further developed her own techniques of cutting and layering paper and light to create her own unique and illustrative voice. Each piece starts as a pencil and paper sketch. Every line is painstakingly traced and hand cut with a blade. Her work is influenced by her struggles with mental health and her love of fantasy, mythology, and biology to creative transformative, dream-like portals that draw the viewer into expressive worlds that shine brightest when surrounded by darkness.
Patty Grazini: "In Seattle, from a very early age, I have been drawn to the interplay of pattern, and color. I find much satisfaction working with paper, utilizing previous skills and techniques that I have transferred to paper. In my work, I attempt to communicate a timelessness and remoteness from everyday life. I am inspired by the beauty of time long past, and a desire to know and capture it. I have been influenced by traveling and love to be surrounded by history. It helps me to attempt to realize another time and culture. I gather paper in various places, preferring to construct with ephemeral which has been in another person's hands at another time. Layer upon layer, I add paper to create depth and details arousing the desire in the viewer, to linger and explore. It is easy for me to become lost in the embellishments and details.I prefer rich shadowy colors, as I find they are less revealing, requiring more study and observation."
Emily McHugh & String and Shadow: String and Shadow is a theater company based in Olympia, Washington. Each summer, they create a giant outdoor touring puppet show that weaves together a variety of puppetry styles, circus arts, and original music. With copious amounts of cardboard, fabric, and paper-mache, String and Shadow's worlds of fantasy and fable aim to pluck at the strings of universal wonder, innocence, and joy.
Emily McHugh, of String and Shadow, is a puppet-maker, performer, paper-cutter, and print-maker. Since falling in love with puppetry in 2015 as an apprentice with Paperhand Puppet Intervention, she has suffered innumerable paper-cuts and countless hot-glue burns, been compelled to learn the pick-up times of all local cardboard dumpsters, and was once lost in a sea of fabric scraps for three days. Despite all this, she is deeply grateful for the opportunity to make art with her community. In addition to all the sketching, sculpting, painting, sewing, cutting, gluing, stapling, and drilling that goes into making a puppet show, she also teaches workshops on her craft to a variety of audiences and teaches puppetry camps at The Olympia Family Theater.
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