The 2026 Dylan Metrano Papercutting calendar is all birds this year.

sold out.

Rebecca and I are showing our collaborative mail art once again! It’ll be up in May in Biddeford at Elements, and we’re having a reception with the artists on May 16th. One of my favorite musicians Hello Shark will be playing as well. Come on out for a great night of art, music, an friends.

My 2025 papercutting calendar is now sold out.

I’m showing my papercut concert posters, created over the last three years for Diaspora Radio at Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth, NH through November.
Each image is created entirely with cut and layered paper, and is an interpretation of the album art for the album that Diaspora Radio plays each month at the Press Room in Portsmouth.
Ceres is open 8am to 2pm Tuesday to Saturday. All the work is for sale.

Knife vs. Scissors is the result of a year-long mail art collaboration between cut paper artists Dylan Metrano and Rebecca FitzPatrick.

Dylan and Rebecca met and became friends while living and working on Monhegan Island, Maine. The artists bonded over their shared love of paper cutting while also recognizing the vast and very specific differences in their methods, processes, and final work. For example, Dylan uses an X-Acto knife to carve images from a single black sheet of paper, then adds colored paper underneath, while Rebecca creates collages using a meticulously curated collection of scissor-cut images. The collaborative work in this show was created by each mailing the other unfinished pieces, scraps, and other random images for the other to build upon or incorporate into their own work. It would be passed back and forth again to slowly reveal the final artwork. The resulting art often reveals the humor in the juxtaposition of imagery. Some pieces become like wordless comics, others just simple assemblages of beauty. While maintaining the distinctive looks of both artists, they created a look and feel unique to this collection.

View the show at Ocean House Gallery.

Photographer Brian Fitzgerald visited my tiny studio to watch me make some artwork and take some photos. He posted some and wrote a little bit about it at his blog HERE.

I designed a flag for SPACE Gallery in Portland. “ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE”. This flag celebrates the ecstasy of ONSTAGE and the quiet familiarity of OFFSTAGE. The couch and posters are a tribute to SPACE’s quiet and humble greenroom, steeped in musical history. The flag accompanies a terrific exhibition at Space featuring twenty years of concert posters. Photos by Carolyn Wachnicki.

I’ll have ten or so papercuttings in this fun show (over 700 works overall!), available for deeply discounted prices! You can shop online or in person. Details at 3sarts.org. Check it out!