ABOUT OFF PAPER
Off Paper is TPR’s online journal that follows the themes presented in The Project Room through thoughtful writing and other relevant online content. Contributing writers come from all types of fields and areas of expertise and share their perspective on what creativity means to them. Off Paper continues the conversation that is taking place on-site for audiences everywhere.
Tessa Hulls, Editor
Brangien Davis, Editorial Advisor
Madeline Rose Williams, Editorial Assistant
The Project Room partners with the Seattle Public Library Foundation to support the Stimson Bullitt Civic Courage Scholarship. Lena Easton-Calabria tells us about the Makah Tribe's fight to reclaim their whaling rights.
...I’d had role models and mentors but never a superhero—someone so awe-inspiring I knew I could never be him or her, someone who could save me.
In this 9 Ounces update, Anastacia Tolbert writes a letter and a memoir for Luna, an innocent, truth-telling childlike ghost-angel. Join us as we follow Anastacia In The Making of her monumental work, 9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show.
Follow poet Anastacia Tolbert as she works through the process of creating her one-woman show. 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show yogas its way through the unexpected journey of a queer woman of color’s mid-life a-ha moment and extreme case of takotsubo’s cardiomyopathy.
Photographer Ethan Rafal explores our topic Monument in Shock and Awe, a part journal/part photo essay multimedia work about homeland decay.
Learn about Dame Gillian Lynne, who is recreating a dance she performed for soldiers during WWII (when she was 17).
Artist Devin Midori Hale reflects on her grandfather, his lessons of frugality, and the old blue truck of his that he gave to her, born exactly the same year as she was.
Poet Peter van Lier responds the collages of Machteld van Buren in the final three parts of the ongoing art and writing collaboration, Circus Europe.