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Veronica Y Phạm
@veronicaypham.bsky.social
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Making things. Mostly paper. Mostly nerd—Papermaker, artist, educator, designer. Teaching at the University of Vermont 🫰🏽
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Veronica Y Phạm @veronicaypham.bsky.social · Dec 11
Hi friends! New here. Paper nerd and advocate for traditional Vietnamese papermaking and its craft related histories. Currently making and floating between WI/VT. Teaching design at the University of Vermont. Let me know if you want to connect!

Practice + work: veronicapham.com
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“I have never felt as much love and support as much as I felt when I was in the cell,” says Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi in his first live interview since his release from ICE detention.
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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As the 50th anniversary of the end of the American war in Viet Nam approaches, let us remember that great and brave veteran of his own "personal Vietnam," Donald Trump.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h822...
Trump: Sex is "my personal Vietnam - I'm like a great & brave soldier" ('97)
YouTube video by Original Trumpalicious
www.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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“In the year 1972, my family…” an ongoing project with my father and his letters to me, made as a watermark on paper. Mended with silk thread 🪡
April 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Fresh off the shop: three newly built sapele khung seos for papermaking workshops coming up this month! Photo: Lucy Powell, Generator Makerspace
April 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Doodles and Squiggles on #paper from milkweed and kozo
April 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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My good girl ❤️
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Lunar eclipse tomorrow evening at 1-3AM EDT 🌕 this is the moon from last night at NYC
March 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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@wendymaruyama.bsky.social Woot!!! Mentioned in with a bunch of brilliant artists in this nyt article. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/s...
Woodworking Is Losing Its Macho Edge Thanks to These Women (Gift Article)
As contemporary woodworking loses its macho edge, it gains a whole new dimension.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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jeniegao.bsky.social
Love this illustration in Tessa Hulls' #graphicnovel, Feeding Ghosts, of three generations of her family's relationship with the languages they speak.

📚💙 #memoir
Page from Tessa Hulls' graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, which explores the impacts of trauma on her grandmother, mother, and herself. This illustration includes a text banner that reads "These are all the languages and dialects spoken by my family" with text bubbles for Suzhouese, Mandarin, French, Shanghainese, Cantonese, Spanish, German, and English. The illustrated images of Tessa, her mother, and grandmother, shows them with rubber arms and legs that stretch and interweave to touch each of the languages with either a full hand/foot foot full fluency or a touch point for languages they have partial grasps of.
February 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Mini zine project with students in Illustration! Each semester these gems will go to UVM special collections library. A great first project from students this semester exploring drawing and digital formats!
February 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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to new artist’s books by Skye Tafoya, Irene Chan, and Tia Blassingame. 🧑🏿‍🎨🧑🏾‍🎨🧑🏽‍🎨🧑🏼‍🎨🧑🏻‍🎨📚
February 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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jeniegao.bsky.social
Pay attention to who's resisting.

AP continues using the name, Gulf of Mexico, even if it means being denied access to the White House.

Resistance builds resistance. We don't need journalists who comply for more access to rage bait. We need independent news.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 14
"If Trump is denying access to outlets that refuse to lick his boots, then any media outlet that has access is compromised. Journalists who want to be worthy of the name have a moral obligation to follow the AP’s example in enraging the toddler in chief."
The AP provides a model of effective press resistance
Credibility is more important than access.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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After 6 years of work, I'm pleased to announce my 1st, 1st-author pub is now in print! Special thanks to coauthors Trần Hồng Nhung, @veronicaypham.bsky.social & @oreotrephes.bsky.social for their contributions! Order @ link ⬇️.

#followingthepapertrail #ethnobotany

ethnobiology.org/publications...
February 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Wooden mallets used for beating #barkcloth in Hawai'i. Round hohoa made from milo (Thespesia populnea), square i'e kuku from 'ōhi'a lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha; middle) and koa (Acacia koa; bottom) woods.

#botany #ethnobotany #hawaii
February 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Last week we hosted Esther Jihye Cho for an incredible artist talk and a workshop on jiseung (Korean paper weaving)! We learned so much 👏🏽
February 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Milkweed coma and kozo papers with fuzzy fibrous deckle edges made from students in Design Innovation 2! First sheets for these beginner papermakers 😊
February 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Flax Ecologies exhibition at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design includes these three works of mine made from handmade flax paper.

Left to right: 1) Dew Retting 2) Warp 3) The Weight We Bear

#flaxecologies #art #artfromflaxfibre #handmadeflaxpaper #capebretoncentreforcraftanddesign
February 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Spirit Cabinet, 2010, made from a piece of reclaimed wood from every place I had ever lived up to that point.
February 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Loom almost done! Next phase the weights and string for the warp 🤓
February 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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jeniegao.bsky.social
Lots of amazing artworks and artist-made goods in this auction for e-Sims for Gaza. Bidding ends at midnight tonight 🍉🖤

The fundraiser has raised $5,400 CAD so far. Let's help them reach their $6,000 goal.

Bid on Year of the Wood Dragon: www.32auctions.com/organization...

#freepalestine
jeniegao.bsky.social Jenie Gao @jeniegao.bsky.social · Jan 31
I've donated a hand-watercoloured print of Year of the Wooden Dragon to this art fundraiser for e-Sims for Gaza: www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsf...

Lots of amazing art in this auction. Buy some art and support keeping Gaza connected! #permanentceasefire #freepalestine #inkdrawing #asiandiasporicart
Fundraising poster with red+green watermelon background. The text reads "Emergency e-Sims for Gaza Fundraising Auction: Online spent auction - prints, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, & more!" https://www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsforGaza https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza 5" x 7" ink drawing of a Wood Dragon whose body is made of driftwood, black and white with accents of green leaves and grey lichen. In Chinese mythology, the Dragon is often considered a Yang symbol, embodying light, activation, and the masculine. The Dragon has historically been the emblem of emperors, and is placed in contrast to Yin symbols of the dark, passive, and feminine. But it is a gross misinterpretation to consider yin-yang to be a binary, and the semantics of the term are far older–and queerer–than the patriarchal structures that have shaped more recent Chinese history. In this Yang Wood Dragon, dead wood is not passive, but a source of activation. The wood of the dragon’s body bursts with life as the wood breaks down to create new Earth. The dragon’s core element is Earth, so even as the Wood Dragon’s outer body breaks, it nourishes itself. I am thinking about the grief that intergenerational, diasporic peoples carry in our bones, of what we have lost in our efforts to live. I am thinking about present day genocides that we bear witness to in Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo, and how, despite the violence, those faced daily with death are teaching all of us about the stubbornness of life. Staying alive–insisting that one exists–is the essence of resistance. Dragons are an amalgamation of many animals, and this Wood Dragon carries the head of an elk, the claws of an eagle, and the body of a rattlesnake. Common, immortal, and fearsome. This Wood Dragon is for everyone this year who needs a reminder that a people cannot die as long as community exists for and of them. Resistance is long, enduring, and as patient as trees rooting in and becoming earth, ready for a time when they can blossom and fruit again. 5" x 7" ink drawing of a Wood Dragon whose body is made of driftwood, black and white with accents of green leaves and grey lichen. Photo is of the artwork in a white mat and white frame. In Chinese mythology, the Dragon is often considered a Yang symbol, embodying light, activation, and the masculine. The Dragon has historically been the emblem of emperors, and is placed in contrast to Yin symbols of the dark, passive, and feminine. But it is a gross misinterpretation to consider yin-yang to be a binary, and the semantics of the term are far older–and queerer–than the patriarchal structures that have shaped more recent Chinese history. In this Yang Wood Dragon, dead wood is not passive, but a source of activation. The wood of the dragon’s body bursts with life as the wood breaks down to create new Earth. The dragon’s core element is Earth, so even as the Wood Dragon’s outer body breaks, it nourishes itself. I am thinking about the grief that intergenerational, diasporic peoples carry in our bones, of what we have lost in our efforts to live. I am thinking about present day genocides that we bear witness to in Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo, and how, despite the violence, those faced daily with death are teaching all of us about the stubbornness of life. Staying alive–insisting that one exists–is the essence of resistance. Dragons are an amalgamation of many animals, and this Wood Dragon carries the head of an elk, the claws of an eagle, and the body of a rattlesnake. Common, immortal, and fearsome. This Wood Dragon is for everyone this year who needs a reminder that a people cannot die as long as community exists for and of them. Resistance is long, enduring, and as patient as trees rooting in and becoming earth, ready for a time when they can blossom and fruit again.
February 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Prototype papermaking loom TBD ~~~ working with the amazing Esther Jihye Cho
February 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Join The Furniture Society Feb. 11 for FS Connects: Remembering Black Craft Histories: Michael Puryear and Robell Awake in Conversation! Free and open to all. furnsoc.org/fs-connects/...
FS Connects: Re-membering Black Craft Histories: Michael Puryear and Robell Awake in Conversation
furnsoc.org
February 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I’d like to have an extra day a week where all I do is rest and cuddle my dog and I don’t have to show up on time to anything or anyone
February 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Students processing milkweed bast for #papermaking in progress!
January 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Chúc mừng năm mới! Happy Lunar year 🐍 celebrating today with a silent zine on Vietnamese papermaking and Đông Hồ Paintings!
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM