The Art of Paper: Selections of Handmade Paper

The exhibit features handmade paper works from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation

The Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), part of Kennesaw State University’s Robert S. Geer Family College of the Arts, announces The Art of Paper: Selections of Handmade Paper Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, a groundbreaking exhibition exploring the evolution and impact of handmade paper in contemporary art. The exhibition opens January 20 and remains on view through May 1, 2026. Admission is free and open to the public. Curated by Brett Littman with Susan Gosin and Cynthia Nourse Thompson, the exhibition features 66 works by leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Helen Frankenthaler, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon and others who have redefined handmade paper as an expressive artistic medium. The thoughtful selection of works chronicles the pioneering achievements within the discipline and reveals how the field of handmade paper art was a natural advancement of and response to the historic relationship between print and paper. Drawn exclusively from the renowned collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, the exhibition highlights the inventive intersections of papermaking, printmaking and collaborative artistic practice.