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I have just returned from Japan, where I conducted five paper cutting workshops, including one at Miyamoto School in Funabashi, where 200 students...

This year marks 20 years since I put scissors to paper for the first time. Countless hours have been spent sitting by myself and cutting and...

The Danish paper cutter Torben Jarlstrøm Clausen holds a Japanese paper-cutting workshop with participants from Keiwa University in Japan

Danish Paper Cut Artist in Japanese Paper Cut Workshop at Brenderup Højskole

My next online workshop will be on October 1st with a Japanese audience. The workshop is organized in collaboration with Funabashi H.C. Andersen...

I spotted the box of wrapping paper from Christmas Eve. I mean the paper that the packages had been wrapped in. If you read the sorting...

Earlier this week I did a paper-cutting workshop together with Japanese students at Brenderup Højskole. I've tried it before and it's always very...

I will hold an online workshop on March 26th organized by the National Nordic Museum located in Seattle, Washington. It is the first time I am...

On January 15, I will do an online paper cut workshop with an American audience organized by the cultural organization The American Swedish...

Last Saturday I held a paper-cutting workshop for the Japanese Association in Denmark in connection with the association's 30th anniversary.  It...

The Japanese Association in Denmark turns 30, and it will be celebrated with a large two-day event at Ollerup Folk School. The program includes,...

I was asked by Brenderup Folk School if I wanted to do a paper cut workshop with some of the folk school's Japanese students. Of course I...

Right now you can see the exhibition “Papirklip: A Global and Timeless Art” at Vesterheim in Iowa, USA. I am very happy to have four framed paper...

Nordic Northwest from Portland in Oregon, USA is now showing the exhibition Nordic Folktales Reimagined, and I am happy to have one of my paper cuts...

2nd online paper cutting workshop with Scandinavia House, New York Back on demand 🙂 On August 21th 2022, I will hold an online paper cutting...

In 2022 I made two online paper cutting workshops with Marine Mills Folk School, which is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the US.Now there is a...

On June 12th, I am doing an online paper cut workshop for my American audiences. The workshop is organized by Scandinavia House, New York, USA. This...

During the hard corona shut down last year, a series of desperate faces emerged as I put the scissors to paper on quiet evenings. A whole new...

On May 22th, I am doing an online paper cut workshop for my American audiences. The workshop is organized by Scandinavian Cultural Center in...

Warning - this post is a bit paper cut nerdy 🙂 During the corona lockdown, I - like many other people - had a lot more free time. I spent some of...

On January 30th, I am doing an online paper cut workshop for my American audiences. The workshop is organized by the Museum of Danish America, USA....

In 2021, I have worked closely together with Vesterheim in Iowa, which is one of the largest American organizations working to disseminate knowledge...

In this time with a corona pandemic, it is not easy to make physical paper cut workshops. New solutions are needed! That is why I have started to do...

Sunday night was a pretty exciting night to be a Danish paper cut artist. The American cultural organization Vesterheim from Iowa had invited me to...

The corona lockdown earlier this year, which in many ways was a tough time, boosted my online paper cut workshops with Danish, American, and...

Here is a screenshot from Saturday's online workshop with Japanese participants. You can also see some of the participants' beautiful paper cuts. It...

I just did an online workshop with 45 kids from the Narihira school, which is located in Tokyo right next to the Tokyo Skytree. It was a huge...

I am doing my first online paper cutting workshop on March 20th, 2011 with Japanese participants. At the workshop, the Japanese participants will...

I have just hung up an exhibition at Kolding Library, where it can be seen from December 1th to December 20th. I have not been to Kolding Library...

In May 2019, I traveled to the United States in the service of the scissors. The University of Wisconsin-Madison had invited me to attend the...

April 2th - on Hans Christian Andersen's birthday - there was a foundation stone positioning for the new H.C. Andersen's House (museum) in Odense. I...

I was busy with the scissors when I held a paper cut workshop at the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, USA. I was at the museum for over two...

H.C. Andersen Festivals opens this year on August 19th with the dance performance “De 5 Papirklip" (The 5 paper cuts). I have made all the paper...

In the summer of 2017, Leonardo Capodarte from the Italian RAI-TV recorded me for a film documentary about Denmark. Among other things, he filmed me...

A Japanese delegation with 11 participants is on a week's cultural visit to Denmark. In addition to seeing Copenhagen, they came to Odense to take...

From Nagashima san, our contact person at the Hans Christian Andersen Park in Funabashi, Japan, I have received some press coverage about the...

I have been in the studio at Danish TV2/Fyn where I talked about my exhibition and workshop in Japan, which I made together with Soundartist Robert...

Together with the Soundartist Robert Cole Rizzi, I have developed an innovative exhibition that uniquely combines paper cuts, sound, and...

There was an envelope from the United States in the mailbox today. It was the paper edition of the paper "The Norwegian American" from May 19th. The...

The Soundartist Robert Cole Rizzi and the Photographer Karen Relster and I show the exhibition "The sound of the scissors' redemption of the paper...

In April 2017, I was in Duluth, Minnesota to exhibit and do paper cut workshops at The Nordic Center. In the photo, I have just got ready for the...

There was a full house for my paper cut workshop at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC yesterday. Both children, young people, and adults were...

The students had a lot of great questions when I held "Ask the Paper Cut Artist" for all the students at Albani School in Odense. The agreement was...

In October 2015, I participated in Norsk Høstfest, which is North America's largest Scandinavian festival, where over 20,000 Americans celebrate...

10 school classes visited my paper cut workshop during the Hans Christian Andersen Festivals 2015. And my paper cut people made almost 250 new...

Nearly 250 Odense school students are enrolled in my paper cut workshop during the Hans Christian Andersen Festivals. Here are some photos from the...

I have just returned home from Japan where I, among other things have done paper cut workshops in H.C. Andersen Park in Funabashi near Tokyo. This...

Children, young and old diligently put the scissors to the paper when I held paper cut workshops at the Hans Christian Andersens Museum during the...

Hans Christian Andersen Festivals was showing its opening concert this afternoon. I was invited to sit in the lobby and cut. It was nice and I had a...