Pam DeLuco

Pam DeLuco (born 1968) is an American contemporary textile and fiber artist, book artist and papermaker, and co-founder of Shotwell Paper Mill based in San Francisco.[1] She is noted for her military paper doll project.[2]

Pam DeLuco
Born1968
NationalityAmerican
Known forCrafts, Book art, Papermaking
Notable work
Paper Dolls: stories from women who served

History

DeLuco studied in Los Altos, California, and Notre Dame, Indiana. She has traveled extensively, studying indigenous handicrafts and artisans around the world.

DeLuco's work explores the lives of women in the military in her paper dolls series Paper Dolls: stories from women who served.[1][3] In 2008 she became involved with the Combat Paper Project. She formed Combat Paper Press with author and combat papermaker Nathan J. Lewis in 2009.[4] She has worked with veterans, teaching paper-making at workshops in which they use their uniforms as the raw material for pulp to make hand-made paper.[5]

Television

DeLuco was featured on the 2007 television show What Not To Wear, Season 5, episode 20.[6] She appeared on the 2014 PBS show Craft in America: Service, Season 6, episode 1.[7]

gollark: Basically:- messaging between computers within CC (via modems) is easy- adding security to that is hard- for messaging between servers, you need to use an HTTP server of some sort to relay messages- you can program one yourself or use an existing service- programming one yourself allows you to handle stuff like user accounts on the server, making security easier
gollark: ... do you want me to simplify my explanations, or something?
gollark: Plus, you can't get discussion between multiple people like this.
gollark: Yes, the different style of interaction is also problematic.
gollark: It's not as if it's secret classified information.

References
  1. "PAM DELUCO". Craft in America. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  2. Steinhauer, Jennifer. "Paper Dolls With Military Stories to Tell". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  3. Brooks, Katherine. "'Paper Dolls' Book Explores Women In The Military Using Actual U.S. Uniforms". Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  4. Deacon, Deborah A.; Calvin, Paula E. (2014). War Imagery in Women's Textiles. Google Books: McFarland. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-7864-7466-0. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  5. "Artist Lecture -- Pam DeLuco". Montana State University. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  6. "What Not To Wear: Pam Deluco". TV.com. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  7. "Craft in America: Service (Season 6) DVD". PBS Store. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
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