Many of the visitors are drawn to 65-year-old Wang Chuncai's paper-cut silhouette stall, where his scissors slice through ...

The silhouette, an ancient form of portraiture, may be dying. Only a handful of artists have learned to cut these precision profiles — traditionally clipped from black paper and mounted on a white ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two minutes. That’s all it takes for Leslie Stone to cut a perfect profile of her subject from a small piece of black paper. She cuts by sight, shifting her eyes constantly from her subject to a five ...

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 ...

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 ...