Paper Routes Audio Guide
Several of the artists featured in Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020 discuss their inspirations, processes, and use of paper as a medium.
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Curator’s Introduction
Ginny Treanor, NMWA associate curator
Ginny Treanor introduces the exhibition, shares how the artists were selected, and highlights why the exhibition focuses on paper, a diverse and eclectic medium.
![A beige abstract sculpture with varied geometric angles positioned against a window. The sculpture has red painted lines extending onto the walls.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/aitken_linesandplanes_01-e1602019562117.jpg)
Jen Aitken
Canada Committee
Jen Aitken discusses her site-specific work Lines+Planes (Temporary Structure 1), 2015
![A contemporary wall sculpture with cut wallpaper piece pasted onto the wall and objects and home furniture protrude from the wall and onto the ground covered in colorful floral wallpaper.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Alexander_-Elizabeth.-All-Things-Bright-and-Beautiful-_side-1_-front-2000x3000.jpg)
Elizabeth Alexander
Massachussetts Committee
Elizabeth Alexander discusses her two-sided installation, All Things Bright and Beautiful, 2019
![Two symmetrical forms that appear as heads with enlarged crania face each other. A colorful background for the heads peek through behind thousands of cut paper letters.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bowdoin-Contrariwise.jpg)
Natasha Bowdoin
Texas Committee
Natasha Bowdoin discusses her work Contrariwise, 2011
![A round work with a bright yellow center. The surface is made up of images of white and beige blankets with heart-shaped designs on them](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mira-Burack-Sun-Son-cropped.jpg)
Mira Burack
New Mexico Committee
Mira Burack discusses her works Sun (son), 2015, and (dark) Waterdrop, 2018
![A long rectangular wall with many silhouetted figures made out of brown paper. The figures are of men, women and children in different positions as if in a landscape. They are different sizes to indicate foreground, middle ground and background.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/file-3000x724.jpeg)
Mary Evans
U.K. Committee
Mary Evans discusses her work Prospect, 2020
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Rachel Farbiarz
Mid-Atlantic Region Committee
Rachel Farbiarz discusses her work Memorial Hill, 2013
![A trapezoidal abstract orange sculpture made of paper pulp with a top arch that connects the two sides. The sculpture is thin with a big void space in between the four sides.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Desierto-1-e1602020083605.jpg)
Dolores Furtado
Argentina Committee
Dolores Furtado discusses her works Desierto (Desert), 2018, and Morocco, 2018
![Panels of white paper hung together to look like a long rectangular box suspended from the ceiling a few feet off the ground. Roughly torn holes in the middle of the sheets create a tunnel-like space.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Terforation-tiff-e1602020047323.jpg)
Angela Glajcar
Germany Committee
Angela Glajcar discusses her work Terforation, 2012
![A floor to ceiling contemporary installation of blue square sheets patched together into a long panel that hangs down from two wires and partly rests flat on the floor. A dark blue object lays nearby.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/8x10.jpg)
Dalila Gonçalves
Portugal Committee
Dalila Gonçalves habla sobre su obra de arte Desgastar em Pedra (segundo ensaio) (To Wear in Stone [second test]), 2018. Audio y transcripción en español.
Curator Ginny Treanor reads an English translation of Dalila Gonçalves discussing her artwork Desgastar em Pedra (segundo ensaio) (To Wear in Stone [second test]), 2018. Audio and transcription in English.
![The name ‘Rita Bianchi’ is inscribed in a cursive typeface and slightly raised off the surface of a thin white paper pulp base with frayed edges.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RitaBianchi.jpg)
Julia Goodman
Northern California Committee
Julia Goodman discusses her work in the “Rag Sorters, 1964” series
Julia Goodman discusses her work Waning & Waxing, 2020
![Installation view of thousands of small insects swarming out on the walls, ceiling, and onto the floor of a building lobby.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Livaudais-All-That-I-Love-1.jpg)
Joli Livaudais
Arkansas Committee
Joli Livaudais discusses her work All That I Love, 2012–present
![A sleeveless rich blue full-length gown placed on a headless black mannequin with rounded base. The dress has white text and images printed on the surface.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Annie-Lopez-TheLiberationofGlycerin-819x1024.jpg)
Annie Lopez
Arizona Committee
Annie Lopez discusses her works I Never Learned Spanish, 2013, Favorite Things, 2016, and The Liberation of Glycerine, 2016
![A rectangular work made up of blue and black pieces of paper interwoven together with currency amounts and words in Spanish.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/El_azar-del_mestizaje_negro_azul.jpg)
Luisa Pastor
Spain Committee
Luisa Pastor habla sobre su obra de arte El azar del mestizaje: Negro/Amarillo (The Chance of Miscegenation: Black/Yellow), 2016, y Topología del pliegue (Topology of the Fold), 2018. Audio y transcripción en español.
Assistant Curator Orin Zahra reads an English translation of Luisa Pastor discussing her artwork El azar del mestizaje: Negro/Amarillo (The Chance of Miscegenation: Black/Yellow), 2016, and Topología del pliegue (Topology of the Fold), 2018. Audio and transcription in English.
![Five panels of paper covered in gray charcoal in which there is a cut stencil of an image of a group of faceless people. The panels have portions of paper that flap and fold.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sadia-Rehman_Family-2017_hires-e1602020193107.jpg)
Sa’dia Rehman
Ohio Committee
Sa’dia Rehman discusses her work Family, 2017
![An image of two hands touching by their fingertips. The back of one hand is drawn on the paper and the palm of the other is embossed.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/revila_apipakotene-2041x3000.jpg)
Natalia Revilla
Peru Committee
Natalia Revilla discusses her works in the series “Veinte palabras” (“Twenty Words”), 2016
![Vibrantly colored strokes of watercolor in shades of magenta, orange, and yellow, flow across white paper, giving the impression of waves.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/LuchaRodriguez_KnifeDrawingXX_closeup1-1024x768.jpg)
Lucha Rodríguez
Georgia Committee
Lucha Rodríguez discusses her works in the series “Knife Drawing” 2018-2019
![Dozens of pale, hollow, ghostly feet of different sizes made of translucent paper arrayed in pairs on a white background.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Shin02.jpg)
Hyeyoung Shin
Greater Kansas City Committee
Hyeyoung Shin discusses her work Tide, 2019–present