Title: Combat Paper Project records, 1980-2012
Predominant Dates:2007-2012
ID: 01/01/MSS00085
Primary Creator: Combat Paper Project
Other Creators: Cameron, Drew, Matott, Drew Luan
Extent: 63.0 Cubic Feet
Languages: English
The Combat Paper Project utilizes art making workshops to assist veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences while broadening the traditional narrative surrounding service and military culture. Veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beaten into a pulp and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experiences in the military.
The Combat Paper Project is based out of art studios throughout the United States and has traveled to Canada and the United Kingdom, providing veterans workshops, exhibitions, performances and artists' talks. The Combat Paper Project is a collaboration initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron, involving war veterans, activists, and artists.
Repository:
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Access Restrictions:
Open to researchers.
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Box and Folder Listing
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Series 2: Green Door Studios],
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Series 3: Iraq Veterans Against the War],
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Series 4: Warrior Writers],
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Series 5: Correspondence and Personal Papers],
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- Series 1: Combat Paper Project
- Sub-series 1: Multimedia
- Box-Folder 1: Laptop and Tapes
- Sub-series 2: Paper Samples and Recipes
- Box 2
- Box 3
- Box 4
- Sub-series 3: Workshops & Exhibitions
- Sub-series 1: Realia
- Box-Folder 5: Papier Mache Gun
- Note: In accessions awaiting box
- Box-Folder 6 [F]: Paint-soaked Uniform
- Note: In Folio
- Box-Folder 7: Magnet
- Box-Folder 8: Flag & discharge papers
- Box-Folder 9: Vietnam posters & Revolutionary Press & Marine corps pamphlets
- Folder 1
- Folder 2
- Folder 3
- Sub-series 2: Pre-workshop material and undated
- Box 10
- Folder 1
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- Folder 4
- Folder 5
- Box 11
- Folder 1
- Folder 2
- Sub-series 3: 2007
- Box 12
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- Folder 8
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- Folder 10
- Sub-series 4: 2008
- Box 13 [F]
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- Box 15 [F]
- Box 19 [F]
- Folder 1
- Folder 2
- Sub-series 5: 2009
- Box 16 [F]
- Box 17
- Box 18
- Item 1: Photo album
- Box 19 [F]
- Folder 3
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- Sub-series 6: 2010
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- Sub-series 7: 2011
- Box 24 [F]
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- Sub-series 8: Workshop Ephemera
- Box 25 [F]
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- Box 26 [F]
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- Box 27
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- Map Case Drawer/Folder D21 Drawer 20
- Folder 1
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- Folder 3
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Combat Paper Project],
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Series 2: Green Door Studios],
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Series 3: Iraq Veterans Against the War],
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Series 4: Warrior Writers],
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Series 5: Correspondence and Personal Papers],
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All]