Dieu Donné Community Studio Day: Tours, Demos, & Experience Pulp Painting
About this Event
About the Event
Drop in and discover the art of hand papermaking at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn's leading nonprofit hand papermaking studio since 1976. Join us for a free afternoon at our location in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, offering an up-close look at the ancient craft of papermaking and the contemporary artists working within the medium today.
Explore our studio and gallery, where finished works are on view alongside didactics that reveal the processes behind them. Watch our studio team demonstrate sheet forming and couching, and then try your hand at pulp painting, freehand or with stencils, on large-scale sheets set up right in our wet studio. Everyone is invited to collaborate!
Guided studio, gallery, and archive tours will be offered each hour, hosted by guest artists and Dieu Donné staff.
PLEASE NOTE: While you'll be able to experiment with paper pulp, this is not a make and take event.
Guided Studio Tour Schedule
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Guided Studio Tour with a Dieu Donné Staff Member
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Guided Studio Tour with a Dieu Donné Staff Member
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Shervone Neckles is a Grenadian-American interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, New York. She was a 2021 Dieu Donné Workspace Residency Artist and 2026 Paper Variables Artist. Working across textiles, prints, installations, sculptures, and public art, she creates immersive experiences that engage Afro-Caribbean diasporic histories, mythologies, and personal narratives. By weaving researched stories into artworks that function as both archives and rituals, she evokes ancestral wisdom from objects.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Caroline Ongpin is a New York-based artist and was the 2025 Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow at Dieu Donné. She has had residencies with Arquetopia Foundation and Guttenberg Arts. Her work has been shown at the Museo Taller Erasto Cortés in Puebla, Mexico; the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila; the Lower East Side Printshop and Print Center New York. Ongpin received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines and completed Tamarind Institute’s Printer Training Program. She is an instructor of printmaking at the Art Students League of New York and is the owner and lead printer of collaborative lithography studio Ermitanya Editions located in Brooklyn.
This event is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, Windgate Foundation, and additional generous individual donors.
About Dieu Donné
Founded in 1976, Dieu Donné is the leading non-profit cultural institution dedicated to serving emerging and established artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking. We introduce artists from a wide variety of practices to the creative possibilities in hand papermaking, fostering experimentation and creating innovative works of art. Our work is realized through extensive collaborations with artists. We strive to teach a new visual language, providing a transformative experience that often leads to artistic breakthroughs. We share this work with the community through our gallery, public and educational programs.
www.dieudonne.org
www.instagram.com/dieudonnepaper
Accesibility
Dieu Donné's studio is accessible to visitors with mobility disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs, walkers, or other mobility aids. We're located on the sixth floor of Building 88 (formerly Building 3) in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Our passenger elevators are currently out of service, so all visitors will need to use the freight elevator to reach the studio. Dieu Donné staff will be on hand to guide you in and assist as needed. Once inside, there are no stairs required to move through our space. An all-gender, accessible bathroom is available onsite.
The building entrance includes a turnstile that is not wheelchair-accessible but a manual gate is available with a stair lift to the main elevators. If you'll need to use the accessible gate and/or the stair lift, please contact us in advance at [email protected] or call us at 212-226-0573 so we can have staff ready to assist.
The papermaking studio is an inherently wet space, which can make the environment warm and humid with wet floors. Rain boots and waterproof aprons are provided to all visitors for safety and comfort.
If you have specific accessibility needs or questions ahead of your visit, please reach out to us at [email protected] or call at 212-226-0573. We look forward to welcoming you.
Agenda
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Guided Studio Tour with a Dieu Donné Staff Member
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Guided Studio Tour with a Dieu Donné Staff Member
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Guided Studio Tour with Artist Shervone Neckles
Host: Shervone Neckles
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Guided Studio Tour with Artist Caroline Ongpin
Host: Caroline Ongpin
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