Ray Tomasso's studio is a 15-minute drive from the Rocky Mountains on Highway 285 and a five-minute walk to public transportation to downtown Denver.
Inter-Ocean Curiosity Studio
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Since 1980 the Inter-Ocean Curiosity Studio has been located in Englewood, just south of Denver, Colorado. It offers custom handmade paper and pulp, and workshops, apprenticeships and internships in papermaking and letterpress printing.
Accomodations are available to visiting artists and students at the studio or at Ray's house in Arapahoe Acres, a 5-minute drive or 20-minute walk away. Arapahoe Acres is a modernist subdivision from the 1950s now listed as a National Register Historic District. The neighborhood and house are featured in this great Wallpaper magazine article.
The studio also includes tools and equipment for bookbinding, woodworking, metalworking, ceramics and glass. An extensive library of books, periodicals and ephemera associated with papermaking, printing, printmaking, book arts, graphic design, sculpture, fine art and related topics of interest are located on-site.
The studio compound includes a 1917 house containing the library and kitchen, an attached cafe from 1920s containing the art studio, and a 1,000 sq ft shop that houses the printing and papermaking facilities.