Kirstin Demer is a Sculptural Handmade Papermaker, Letterpress Printer and Book Artist.

She creates work relating to fragility/strength, order/chaos, inside/outside boundries and presence/absence. 

Handmade paper is extremely influential in conveying the ideas of her work.  She beats and hand pulls all of the handmade paper used in her work in her Hydra  Hollander Beater.

She holds her BFA in Sculpture from The Pennsylvania State University and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts in 

Book and Paper from Columbia College Chicago. 

Kirstin got her start as a Staff Artist for Artrain USA traveling across the country and demonstrating papermaking inside a train car!  

She has taught numerous workshops on bookbinding and papermaking in schools, museums, and art studios.

She has shown her work both nationally and internationally. Her Artists' Books are collected in various Special Collections Libraries as well as private collections. 

She works in her studio (Northeon Studios) in New Jersey.