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Family Art Classes

Tunnel Vision

May 18, 2019

It was fantastic to teach a workshop on Tunnel Books for families, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Tunnel Book is comprised of two accordion spines, or “sides”, connected by a “backdrop” and “cross pieces” or frames attached to the accordion folds working from the back fold and … [Read more...] about Tunnel Vision

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Alexander Calder, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Books made by Hand, Calder, Community Artmaking, Community Arts, Diarama, Directors Rountable Garden, Edgar Degas, Family Art Classes, Family Bookmaking, Folded book structures, Handmade Books, LACMA, Mise-en-scène, Museum Educatio0n, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Theatre, Theatrical, TUNNEL BOOK, Tunnel Books

“Making Books Together” at LACMA!

April 13, 2019

Join us to create fun, personal, handmade books! Learn glued, folded, and rolled book-making techniques, as well as how to use color, texture, pattern, design, and composition to make your books unique. Families can create books together, work on individual projects, or both! Led by artist Debra … [Read more...] about “Making Books Together” at LACMA!

Tagged With: Accordion Book, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking, Family Art Classes, Flag Book, Folded Books, Folded Fan Book, Handmade Books, Intergenerational Artmaking, LACMA, LACMA Family Class, Los Angeles, los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Art Classes, One-of-a-kind Books, Paper Marbling, Scroill, TUNNEL BOOK, Unique Books

“Make Your Own Books” at the Compton Library!

August 7, 2018

"Make Your Own Books" at the Compton Library! Join us for a community bookmaking program for middle schoolers and their families at The Compton Library! Together, we will create the fun and versatile flag book structure, a kinetic book which reveals a design when opened. All materials … [Read more...] about “Make Your Own Books” at the Compton Library!

Tagged With: Artists' Book/s, Bookmaking, Community Artmaking, County Library, Family Art Classes, Handmade Books, Library, Los Angeles County Library System, The Compton Library, The Flag Book

LACMA LOVE: The Art of the Book 1: The Accordion Book

August 3, 2018

We started off our Family Bookmaking Workshop series at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art  with Accordion Fold/Concertina Fold Books, a basic yet complex structure, as regards to the amount of surfaces makers had to work on and develop. We visited Chris Burden's master work, "Metropolis II", … [Read more...] about LACMA LOVE: The Art of the Book 1: The Accordion Book

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Accordion Book, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking, Chris Burden, Community Arts, Concertina fold, Concertina Fold Book, Family Art Classes, Family Artmaking Workshops, Family Bookmaking, Folded Fan Book, Handmade Books, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, Metroplis II, Muesuem art classes, Museum Arts Program, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Family Bookmaking Workshops at LACMA

July 21, 2018

Family Bookmaking Workshops at LACMA A series of one day Family Bookmaking Workshops at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art! Join us 10AM - 1PM Saturdays, July 21, 28, August 4, 11 and 18. Learn how to create fun book structures including The Flag Book, The Folded Fan Book, The Accordion … [Read more...] about Family Bookmaking Workshops at LACMA

Tagged With: Art Classes, Art Museum, Art Museum Classes, Bookmaking, Children Making Books, Community Arts, Families, Family Art Classes, Handmade Books, LACMA, los Angeles County Museum of Art, making Books, Making Books By Hand, Museum, Teaching Artist

LACMA LOVE: We Make Books

May 3, 2018

LACMA LOVE: We Make Books At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), families made books together. This past March and April, we gathered together and learned how to create the Accordion or Concertina Fold, Folded Fan and  Tunnel Book  structures. And we had FUN! Learning to fold … [Read more...] about LACMA LOVE: We Make Books

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ACCORDION FOLD BOOKS, Accordion fold spine, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book Strucutres, Books made by Hand, Community Artmaking, Community Arts, Concertina Books, Concertina Spine, Family Art Classes, FAMILY ARTMAKING, Flag Books, Folded Fan Books, Handmade Books, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

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