Guild of American Paper Cutters
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Location:
214 S Harrison Street, Somerset PA, 15501
Hours:
Tuesdays through Thursdays 10 AM to 8 PM
Fridays 10 AM to 4 PM
Saturdays 12 PM to 4 PM
Description:
The Guild of American Papercutters (GAP) was founded in 1988 by a group of papercut art enthusiasts, meeting for the first time 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. The Guild was originally 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.
