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Making Books Together with CREST Enrichment 1

November 24, 2019 By Debra Disman

Working with children ages 5-10 in the CREST Enrichment Program, teaching them how to create books!

After school, in the Santa Monica Public Schools, children are enriched with sports, homework help, science, technology, language study, and the arts of course!

Here students at Edison Language Academy in Santa Monica share and celebrate the folded fan books they have created with their peers.

 

So. Much. Fun!

And A Lot of Learning too!

Filed Under: BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: After School Enrichment, After Scool Arts Classes, Arts Classes, Bookmaking, Books, Community Artmaking, CREST Enrichment, Edison School, Elementary School Students, Folded Fan Books, Handmade Books, Muir / SMASH Schpool, SANTA MONICA, Santa Monica Malibu Public School System

Exhibitionista: “Book and Paper Arts”

November 20, 2019 By Debra Disman

I wish I could see this show!
I am honored to be included.


Downtown Gallery
102 N Main St. , IN
Kokomo, IN 46901 United States + Google Map
Phone: 765-455-9426

The juror is Anita Garza (b.1959, Chicago, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, who works with handmade paper, photography, collage, found objects, assemblage and handmade books. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in art and creative non-fiction writing, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts. She has exhibited work internationally and is published in limited edition journals. She served as Assistant Director and Director of Community Programs at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, at Columbia College Chicago.  Her latest work with organic material binds nature and the material world into disparate, yet symbiotic relationships. Her work is playful, quirky, whimsical and curious or abruptly turns into a vexing, literal statement—provoking introspection and contemplation. She serves as art editor for the international literary and arts journal, Burningword.

I am showing “BedTime Story“, visible below under the “dc” logo, to the right!

Image may contain: indoor
The piece features tiny clay faces made by my Mom, Judy Disman.

The work in the show looks stunning.

Gratitudes!

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Exhibitions, Work Tagged With: Anita Garza, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book and Paper Arts, Books and Paper, Handmade Books, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, Paper, Paper Arts, The Downtown Gallery

Tierra Del Sol at the Sunland-Tujunga Library

November 14, 2019 By Debra Disman

A group of makers from Tierra Del Sol visited the Sunland-Tujunga Library, and participated in a flag bookmaking workshop as part of my artist residency there, supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

It was an honor to work with these participants!

 

 

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ACCORDION SPINE, AIR, ARTIST BOOKS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, Cartoons, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Program, Community, Community Arts, Community Arts programs, DCA, DCA AIR, Department of Cultural Affairs, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Flag Book, Folded and glued Books, Folded Books, Handmade Books, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Public Library, Public Library, STEAM, SUNLAND-TUJUNGA BRANCH LIBRARY, Sunland-Tujunga Library, Text, Text and Image, Tierra Del Sol

Raising our Flags at the Sunland-Tujunga Library!

November 2, 2019 By Debra Disman

Continuing my 2019-20 Artist Residency at the Sunland-Tujunga Library, supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, I led a  Bookmaking program, for teens, the winning, fun, wild and versatile Flag Book!

In addition to teens, families attended as well, and learned to fold an accordion spine, attach covers to it, and add the flag pages to create a pattern that created all kinds of options for text and visuals.


Color choices are one of the first ways the young makers express themselves.


Students from the nearby Verdugo Hills High School shared that the artmaking was a welcome break from academic pressures.

Great use of magazine text and letters.

Celebrating “STEAM VHHS” (STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking, VHHS is Verdugo Hills High School).

So glad the Arts are in there! All of these disciplines must work together if we are to move ahead in this World!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ACCORDION SPINE, AIR, ARTIST BOOKS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, Cartoons, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Program, Community, Community Arts, Community Arts programs, DCA, DCA AIR, Department of Cultural Affairs, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, FAMILY ARTMAKING, Family Bookmaking, Flag Book, Folded and glued Books, Folded Books, Handmade Books, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Public Library, Public Library, STEAM, SUNLAND-TUJUNGA BRANCH LIBRARY, Sunland-Tujunga Library, Teen Bookmaking, Teens, Text, Text and Image, VHHS

MANGA Love at the Granada Hills Branch Library

October 30, 2019 By Debra Disman

A workshop designed for teens turned into a family and community affair, at the Granada Hills Branch Library.

As part of my Artist Residency at the Library, supported by the wonderful Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs,  we held a Flag Bookmaking program with a Manga comics theme. In addition to teens, families and makers of all ages attended, creating wild and wonderful “Manga” Flag Books!


Father and son work closely together, collaborating on a radiant red book.


This brilliant young maker was amused to realize that he was using the same colors in his very cool book as he was wearing!


Sister and brother work side by side. Getting along…in the moment of making.


This wonderful woman has a attended numerous workshops, and is becoming quite the bookmaker!


Three unrelated generations of makers, working together in an atmosphere of collective creativity.


A mother with her two daughters takes advantage of Library offerings.


Makers’ hands.


A measured smile from a teen assistant and maker…using color to tell as story in her book.

Using the popularity of Manga and the arresting structure of the flag book as a means of engagement, participants worked together as a community on their individual projects, learning, enjoying and sharing all at the same time.

Does it get any better than that?

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ACCORDION SPINE, AIR, ARTIST BOOKS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Artist Residency The Granada Hills Library, Arts programs for Children, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, Cartoons, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Program, Community, Community Arts, Community Arts programs, DCA, DCA AIR, Department of Cultural Affairs, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Families, FAMILY ARTMAKING, Flag Book, flag bookmaking program, Folded and glued Books, Folded Books, Granada Hills Public Library, Handmade Books, Image, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Public Library, Manga Art, Manga Comics, Public Library, Teens, Text, Text and Image

Take Another Look: Making Photo Albums at the Granada Hills Library

October 23, 2019 By Debra Disman

To kick off my 2019-20 Artist Residency at the Granada Hills Public  Library, supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, I led a bookmaking program in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, where participants learned to make their own photo album.

 

Participants bound together a single signature (gathering of folded pages) into a binding composed of a tag board sheet folded both horizontally (to create a pocket on either side) and vertically (to create the body of the cover structure and hold the signature), then added stiffer more durable boards on either side to strengthen the covers. They sewed the components together using the pamphlet stitch and ribbon, using enough ribbon so that the ends would be long enough to tie the book closed if they wished.


Mothers and daughter created side by side and shared their work.


As did Mothers and sons,


and the whole family!


Our teen helpers got into the act too…..


and had a blast…

Pride of Book!

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: AIR, ARTIST BOOKS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Artist Residency The Granada Hills Library, Arts programs for Children, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Program, Community Arts, Community Arts programs, DCA, DCA AIR, Department of Cultural Affairs, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, FAMILY ARTMAKING, Granada Hills Public Library, Handmade Books, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Public Library, pamphlet Book, Phjoto Book, Photo Album, Public Library, Sewn Books, Single Signature Books, The Pamphlet Stitich, three hole Pamphlet Stitch

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