Debra Disman

Artist

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Artist in Residence

Making Fantastic Flag Books at the Canoga Park Branch Library

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A special group of adults learned to create the fun and fabulous Flag Book structure at the Canoga Park Branch Library in honor of Earth Day, Poetry Month and Springtime!
After The participants worked through the step by step process to “build” the book, then added flower stickers and other collage materials, in essence “festooning” their books with design, color, texture and springtime beauty, and enjoying the glory and agency of adornment.

Thank you to the wonderful Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for their support of my artist residency at the Library: “We Write the Book!”.  

Take a Butterfly Book Flight this May!

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Take Flight this Spring!

Join us and learn how to create a “Butterfly Book” in honor of the Rituals and Rites of Spring!

Add ribbons to honor the ancient festival of May Day, and fill your book with color and movement as you open and close it!

This workshop/program is part of my Artist Residency support by the wonderful Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs:
“We Write The Book”.

All materials included!

Bookmaking for the New Year at the Canoga Park Library!

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Book arts are alive and well at the Canoga Park Branch Library!

I am thrilled to continue my artist residency there, working with the community, teaching bookmaking workshops (or leading “programs” in library parlance!)

The series, entitled “We Write the Book”, supported by the wonderful Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, will offer 11 hands-on bookmaking workshops and a culmination event to the community free of charge, with all materials included!

On January 10, 2024 community participants gathered to create an “organizer” book for the New Year and beyond. Participants folded a pocketed accordion book, added covers, then launched into adorning their books with images, decorative papers, “gems”, markers and more. They added “note” papers to their pockets with inspirational words and images. A beautiful, and hopeful time was had by all!

 

Join us to Make Books at the Canoga Park Branch Library!

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Join us to create a beautiful and fun holiday book based on the closed spine accordion structure!

Learn the accordion fold, add covers and “close” the spine so that the book can both open in pages, or extend into a sculptural form.

This workshop is part of my Artist residency: “We Write the Book”, held at the Canoga Park Branch Library, supported by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs!

Join Us!

Flag Bookmaking Workshop at ArtShare LA!

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Join us at 11AM on Saturday December 9th and learn to create the fun and fabulous “flag book” with artist Debra Disman while being inspired by the “Paper Route” exhibition at ArtShare LA. Learn the accordion fold, add book covers and alternating flag pages, and play with “found writing” to create a kinetic book that can be opened and used in multiple ways.

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Debra Disman is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her work inspired by the book, both as a solo practitioner and in the public sphere of community engagement. As a maker and teaching artist she creates work and projects which push the body and boundaries of the book into new media and materials, inviting altered ways of viewing the world and how we inhabit it.

DETAILS:

Date:  December 9
Time:  11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Website:  https://artsharela.org/#

ORGANIZER: ArtShare LA

Phone: (213) 687-4278

Email: [email protected]

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VENUE: ArtShare LA
801 E 4th Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90013 United States + Google Map

Phone: (213) 687-4278
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