CHILDERSBURG – Since returning to her roots in Childersburg, Elena Crattic is spending time fine tuning her love of painting and creating striking masks made of papier mache’. The mask creations will ...

As a kid, I associated papier-mâché with making piñatas for a birthday party or crafting a mask in art class. Now that I'm an adult, I see it's more than just a craft for children. Lately, some ...

Manuel Urueta, a paper-mâché artist, and his wife, Celina Galicia, a photographer and filmmaker, form a dynamic artistic partnership. Their collective is called Xingaderas. Urueta and Galicia craft ...

At Animas High School, ninth graders explore identity through personal essays and papier-mâché masks. The assignment, known ...

There had been a big rainstorm the night before Michael Magers’ first Kanaval. The annual February festivities are a long-held tradition in Jacmel, an artisan community in Haiti famous for elevating ...

Making papier-mache masks is one of the first projects that she teaches her students, using plastic forms as a base. "They can put on their own noses and eyes, lips and eyebrows. I teach them how to ...

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