<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/winter-2004/artists-cutting-edge.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Artists on the Cutting Edge</title><excerpt>Years ago, Sharyn Johnson Sowell ’77 went rowing with her husband, Russ, and their two young sons. To distract the boys before they went overboard, she picked up her husband’s Swiss Army knife and began cutting shapes in the brown paper bags left over from lunch. Today, Sharyn spends 12-18 hours a day creating, designing and marketing unique works of art cut from hand-made paper.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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