ARTISTS
Flag Books for Flag Day at the Manhattan Beach Library!
It was a great pleasure to lead a Flag Bookmaking program on Flag Day at the Manhattan Beach Library!
Due to a fabulous donation of designer wallpaper samples,
I was able to offer a mix of exotic materials to the participants to work with!
And they employed them…
in all kinds of different ways, making use of their colors, textures, patterns and imagery
to enhance and enrich their books!
Different makers used the same pattern…
in different ways!
A wide variety of pre-cut “flag pages” were available and used creatively.
Maker Stacy Wong shared her completed Flag Book, which she further developed after the program!
A truly colorfully creative time was had by ALL!
Craft Contemporary 2025 GALA
Some moments of the 2025 Craft Contemporary GALA!
For Your Viewing Pleasure!
Before, in the courtyard
The auction room second floor gallery, our piece, “drift” (myself and Luciana Abait)
Carrie’s piece
Ahree’ piece
Rosie
Alma
David
Frida’s husband Mick (in my Monm’s vest!) (Luis behind)
Andres
Auction
Alba
Liberty and Jay Worth, Victoria May in mask
THE INTERSECTION-Where Art and Community Meet: Flag Bookmaking at 18th Street Arts Center
Working with the 18th Street Arts Center Community.
Making Flag Books.
On April 1st, 2025 (no joke).
A sublime experience.
Loved every minute.
Share the experience:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-Oe8zYKArc
Animator Stephen Siemens Works his Flag Book
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fQl1I-KdJT0
Poet Susan Suntree and her Alter
me
Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman!
Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman
April 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
FREE!
Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman
Tuesday, April 1st | 5PM – 7PM
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free + Open to the Public
Formally Happy Hours and Potlucks, these gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist: Debra Disman.
Please join us to create & learn, express & enjoy together! Debra Disman will lead us through the making of fun and fantastic “Flag Books”, made of an accordion-folded spine and intimate flag pages onto which you can inscribe your own text, found or otherwise, imagery or any combination of these to tell your own story of the present moment as you are experiencing it. All materials will be provided but if you would like, please bring ephemera and memorabilia to personalize to your book.
“We Write The Book” Double Signature Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library!
I was thrilled to lead an “Accordion Fold Book with Pockets and Pages” workshop at the Northridge Branch Library in honor of Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day, and Women Artists everywhere!
Participants learned to how to create a book using the accordion fold technique, how to fold pockets as part of the structure, and how to sew in pages, or “signatures“, (gatherings of folded pages) using the pamphlet stitch.
Participants also learned about ground breaking women artists Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama , Louise Nevelson, Betye Saar, Georgia O’Keeffe.
