Reading Road Studio

Silver Spring

In 2016 Helen Frederick opened Reading Road Studio in Silver Spring, MD to offer an intimate collaborative experience for artists interested in works in and on paper, artist books, print media, installation works, and critical conversations about visual and cultural literacy. The studio features hand papermaking as an art form and collaborative sessions for artists who want to explore the possibilities of using papermaking as a translucent material,with mixed media print media, and painterly or dimensional experience for their work. Dialogs about contemporary art that honor past traditions while inventing new concepts of materiality are always alive at Reading Road Studio.

Featured Artists: Maria Barbosa, Oletha Devane and Chris Kojzar, Elsabe Johnson Dixon, Cheryl Edwards, Helen Frederick, Mia Halton, Amelia Hankin, Ellen Hill, Lisa Hill, Aziza Gibson Hunter, Fleming Jeffries, June Linowitz, Tom Nakashima, Chris Mona, Phil Qian, Elzbieta Sikorska, Buzz Spector, Nancy Sausser, Susan Firestone, and Lynn Sures. Additional prints by Enrique Chagoya, William Wiley, and Renee Stout.

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Image Credits

Helen Frederick. Skyscape, 2023. Pulp painting. 42 x 24 in.

Ellen Hill. Yellow Ochre Patchwork, 2025. Pulp painting with fabric. 21 1/2 x18 ½ in.

Randi Reiss McCormack. Catching Sight, 2022. Pulp painting with embedded needlepoint on artist-made paper. 23 x 20 in.

Chris Mona. Axis Dandelion, 2025. Pulp painting and mixed media. 24 x 42 in.

Mia Halton. Coupling, 2025. Pulp painting. 18 x 18 in.

Lynn Sures. VARIATIONS on the Dialectic between Mingus and Pithecanthropus erectus, 2005. Artist’s accordion-bound book of handmade paper, pulp painting, woodcut, watermark. Text by Rick Potts; printed by Terrence Chouinard. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 1/2 in.

Reading Road Studio images with Cheryl Edwards, Mia Halton, and Oletha DeVane, working on pulp paintings.

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