Debra Disman

Artist

TUNNEL BOOK

Friday Bookmakers Inspiration! We Stand (Sit?!) Together, Making Books! (7)

I have been honored to work with a wonderful group of “older adults” at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, offering a series of workshops teaching bookmaking techniques, and providing a forum for creativity, imagination, sharing and story. The remainder of our series, “Crafting Our … [Read more...] about Friday Bookmakers Inspiration! We Stand (Sit?!) Together, Making Books! (7)

Friday Bookmakers Inspiration! We Stand (Sit?!) Together, Making Books! (6)

I have been honored to work with a wonderful group of “older adults” at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, offering a series of workshops teaching bookmaking techniques, and providing a forum for creativity, imagination, sharing and story. The remainder of our series, “Crafting Our … [Read more...] about Friday Bookmakers Inspiration! We Stand (Sit?!) Together, Making Books! (6)

Tunnel Vision

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

“Making Books Together” at LACMA!

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!

“Tunneling through” at the Granada Hills Branch Library!

  It has been exciting to lead programs at the Granada Hills Branch Library of the LAPL, as part of  my Artist in Residency there:  “We Write the Book“, supported by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs In honor of Native American Heritage Month, participants created … [Read more...] about “Tunneling through” at the Granada Hills Branch Library!