Long before Kara Walker, there were many folk artists practicing the tradition of cut-paper silhouettes. Pictured above is one page from an album of black paper scenes created by a young girl in ...

The process is simple, explains silhouette artist Karl Johnson. "Basically, I just cut away everything that doesn't look like him," he says, a tiny smile playing at the corner of his mouth. But ...

Kerry Cook started cutting paper silhouettes when she was 10 years old. Her mom was a portrait artist. ‘At that time she was doing a lot of art fairs and county fairs,’ Cook said. ‘And I think I was ...

A silhouette is a shadow portrait. The first known ones, found in ancient caves, are black outlines of animals that look like shadows on the wall. Cut-paper silhouettes were popular in the 18th ...

Somerville artist Randal Thurston installs his cut-paper artwork “The Counting House" at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton. (Courtesy Fuller Craft Museum) “As we become an increasingly digitized ...

Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

Contemporary artist Kara Walker grew up in the shadow of Stone Mountain, one of the largest memorials celebrating the heroes of the Confederacy, and she recently discussed how that monument has ...

Paper artist Lucrezia Bieler uses a pair of surgical scissors to craft works cut from a single sheet of paper, and she utilizes the kind of precision and attention to detail that you’d expect from any ...

Paper cutting machines revolutionized the world of scrapbooking, sign making and other applications for consumer graphic design. Instead of having to purchase components such as stickers, letters, die ...

You don’t have to be queer to be a queer artist. Take Kara Walker. At the UCLA Hammer Museum, her beautifully installed traveling exhibition of drawings, video ...