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Keeping the Faith…Making Art Inspired by Great Artist Faith Ringgold

January 24, 2022

I am thrilled to be teaching MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS  at Franklin and Roosevelt Schools in the Santa Monica Public School System through the CREST Enrichment program. After a span of two years, teaching live and in-person is exciting and energizing. The students are enthusiastic, … [Read more...] about Keeping the Faith…Making Art Inspired by Great Artist Faith Ringgold

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Art and craft, Before and after school art classes, Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, Community Art, CREST Enrichment, Fabric Collage Felt, Faith Ringgold, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Story Quilt, Teaching Artist

Teaching Artistry Live and In-Person!

January 11, 2022

Even in these times, it is wonderful to get back to live, in-person teaching! Teaching classes outside at Santa Monica Public Schools, through the CREST Enrichment program, after a span of two years, is exciting and energizing. The students are enthusiastic, helpful and creative, the parents and … [Read more...] about Teaching Artistry Live and In-Person!

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Children's Art Classes, City of Santa Monica, Community Arts, CREST Enrichment, Frida Kahlo, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, MAKING YOUR OWN BOOKS!, Outside Art Classes, SANTA MONICA, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artistry in the time of Pandemic

Visioning the New Year with the Panorama Branch Library

January 6, 2022

In December, 2021, we completed our  2021-22 Artist Residency in bookmaking  at the the Panorama City Branch Library, supported by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. I say "we" rather than "I", as this was a team effort with the Library Staff, and of course, the DCA, always … [Read more...] about Visioning the New Year with the Panorama Branch Library

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Presentations, Student Work, Teaching Artist, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2022, AIR Program, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Autumn, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, City Department of Cultural Affairs, Culmination, Culmination Workshop, Family Bookmaking, Handmade Books, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, Los Angeles Public Library System, Make Your Own Book, New Year, Online Art programs, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online Library Programs, Online program, Pamphlet Stitich, Panorama City Branch Library, Public Event, Sewn Books, SIGNATURE, Vision Journal, Visioning the Future

MOON BOOK: Bookmaking for the Winter Solstice!

December 28, 2021

Moon, Luna, Lunar It was an honor to lead a special bookmaking workshop through my Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs artist residency at the West Valley Regional Branch Library to welcome and celebrate the Winter Solstice on December 21st, 2021! We focused on the MOON. Our … [Read more...] about MOON BOOK: Bookmaking for the Winter Solstice!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 2022, AIR Program, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Astrology, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, City Department of Cultural Affairs, Collage, COLOR, Concertina fold, Culminating Event, Culmination Event, Fall, Folded and glued Books, Full Moon, Handmade Books, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, Line, line shape color, Los Angeles Public Library System, Luna, m Lunar, Make Your Own Book, Memories'Holiday, Moon, Moon Phases, New Moon, New Year, Online Art programs, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online Library Programs, Shape, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Winter Holidays, Winter Solstice

Unfolding Possibilities: Something to Ponder for the New Year

December 15, 2021

What do we seek, yearn for, want, crave, need, are motivated to strive for, for this New Year coming up? What is Possible? And How do we Achieve it? What are the Possibilities, and how do we Realize them, in this day and age, in this present moment, under our current circumstances, confronted by … [Read more...] about Unfolding Possibilities: Something to Ponder for the New Year

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Exhibitions, New Work, Presentations, Teaching Artist, Work Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, 18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus), 18th Street Arts Center Campus, 18th Street Arts Center exhbitions, Art in the time of pandemic, Artist Book, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Artists' Book/s, Arts Learning Lab, Awl, Bookmaking, Bookmaking With Self-COmpassion, Community Art Projects, Community Arts, Community Collaboration, Film, Flower Fold, Flower Fold Book, Flower Fold Structure, Folded Books, Frida Cano, Handmade Books, Left/Right/Here, Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, Making Books By Hand, Mulberry paper, Online Art Workshops, Pandemic, Pandemic Art projects, RECOVERY JUSTICE: Being Well, Respending to the Pandemic, Sara Delaiden, Screening, Unfolding Possibilities, Use Your Words, Video, We Rise, We Rise LA

December Brings FREE ONLINE Bookmaking Workshops!!!

December 9, 2021

Celebrate the holidays and welcome the New Year by making your own handmade books! Please see the fliers below, each holds sign-up information, or all the phone number listed! You  can also email me, Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Debra Disman, at … [Read more...] about December Brings FREE ONLINE Bookmaking Workshops!!!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 2022, Accordion Fold Book, AIR Program, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Astrology, Autumn, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, City Department of Cultural Affairs, Concertina fold, Culminating Event, Culmination Event, Fall, Fall Holidays, Family Bookmaking, Folded and glued Books, Full Moon, Handmade Books, Journal, journaling, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, Los Angeles Public Library System, Make Your Own Book, Make Your Own Journal, Memories'Holiday, Memory, Moon, Moon Phases, New Moon, New Year, Online Art programs, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online Library Programs, Panorama City Branch Library, Sewn Books, SIGNATURE, SINGLE SIGNATURE BOOK, Single Signature bookmaking, The Phases of the Moon, Vision Journal, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Winter Holidays, Winter Solstice

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