The purpose of this study is to utilize the waste of corn husk and cassava skin waste as raw material for making art paper. Art paper is one type of paper that has aesthetic value, so it can be used for making artwork. The process of making this art paper using a tool digester with soda method (chemical pulping). The raw materials used for making this art paper are corn skin waste, cassava skin waste, PVAC glue and salt. Natural dyes used are the skin of dragon fruit and turmeric. The changed variables used are temperature (70oC, 80oC; 100oC) and time (45 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes). In this research we do the test of raw material and paper test. In the raw material test, it can be concluded that corn husk contains 67% moisture content, 3.50% ash content, and 55.25% alpha cellulose level. While cassava skin contains 65.25% moisture content, 2% ash content, and 48% alpha cellulose levels. High alpha cellulose content in corn and cassava skin has the potential to replace wood as a raw material in the pulping process. While in paper test it can be concluded that the optimum cooking time and temperature to produce art paper with raw material of corn skin waste and cassava skin waste is at temperature of 800C in 60 minutes yielding cellulose alpha level of 81,25%, so it can be concluded that the higher the temperature used the higher the rate of delignification.

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