Artist Talk with Paper Engineer Shawn Sheehy (Chicago, USA)

Name: Artist Talk with Paper Engineer Shawn Sheehy (Chicago, USA)
Start: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-02:30
Location: Eastern Edge, 72 Harbour Dr, St. John's

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-02:30

Location

Eastern Edge, 72 Harbour Dr, St. John's | St. John's, NF

Shawn Sheehy creates artist books and other paper engineered ephemera with an ecological bent. He dedicates his artistic practice to raising awareness of environmental issues and contemplating the cultural impacts of human/wild relationships. He uses paper-engineered structures to communicate those ideas due to their inherent potential to capture viewer attention and deliver a message. In this presentation Sheehy will talk about his work; about blending a life of teaching with a life of making; and about the alluring and enduring power of pop-up books.
• Reception to follow.
• Free admission; donations to the Tara Bryan Legacy Fund accepted.
More about Shawn:
Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such institutions as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. Sheehy’s trade pop-up books Welcome to the Neighborwood and Beyond the Sixth Extinction (both mass-market versions of previous artist books) were published by Candlewick and have won numerous awards. Sheehy served as director of The Movable Book Society from 2018 to 2023. He holds an MFA in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago.