Guild of American Papercutters Museum Becomes PGH Museums Affiliate

We’re excited to announce that the Guild of American Papercutters Museum has decided to affiliate with PGH Museums offering 10% at the gift shop with your PGH Museums membership card! Become a member of PGH Museums yourself, here.

Papercutters (GAP) was founded at the Hershey Museum of American Life in Hershey, Pennsylvania. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to papercutting and paper work as an art form in all its historical and contemporary styles. In 2009, twenty-one years after its founding, members established the National Museum of the Guild of American Papercutters in affiliation with Laurel Arts at the home of the Phillip Dressler Center for the Arts in Somerset, Pennsylvania.  This is the first American museum devoted to papercutting as an art form. The museum has a permanent collection of papercuts as well as changing exhibitions.

The Guild was established for members “from all the countries of North America.” By its tenth anniversary, it had over 500 members, located in 48 states in the USA and in 16 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, as Dick and Sukey Harris wrote in the 11th volume, first number of First Cut (Winter 1998). Our members range from beginner to highly skilled amateur and professional full-time artists and teachers; we have members, too, who don’t cut but are papercutting enthusiasts, researchers, historians, and collectors.