Explore papermaking with regional plant fibres, creating personalised sheets inspired by Dubai’s local ecology and multilingual communities.

Participants will learn the basics of papermaking using regional plant fibres, creating personalised sheets incorporating local flowers, leaves, colours or words. Inspired by Dubai’s landscapes and multilingual communities, the workshop explores how materials and stories connect places, generations and cultures through sustainable craft and creative expression.

About Grace Shieh
Grace is an artist, writer, and musician working between the UAE, USA, and Taiwan. She works in hybrid poetry and installation, at the intersection of the audio, visual, textual, and tactile. She utilizes everyday materials to examine the poetics of nostalgia and materiality. Her recent curiosities are multimodal writing through book art, letterpress, and papermaking. An award-winning poet and artist, she has shown work at the Ras AlKhaimah Arts Festival, University of Iowa, Dakar Translation Symposium, NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi, and Ox-Bow School of Art. She is currently an artist at 421's Artistic Development Program.