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Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous FLAG book!
Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.
All materials included.
Join us for an extraordinary scroll-making and paper marbling workshop in honor of Asian/Pacific Heritage Month!Everyone is welcome!All materials provided, just bring yourself, your creativity, and friends and family!This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous FLAG book! Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.
All materials included.
Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous FLAG book!Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.All materials included.
Pico Block Party is BACK! 18th Street Arts Center’s fourth major Pico Block Party community festival celebrates local Santa Monica artists and artisans. For the very first time, we will feature our brand-new, one-of-a-kind Artisan Marketplace, which will showcase the handmade goods of Santa Monica artists, artisans, chefs, and craftspersons!The Pico Block Party series grew out of 18th Street Arts Center’s in-depth community outreach programs, including its bilingual neighborhood oral history project, CultureMapping90404.org. That project spurred the creation of a Neighborhood Advisory Council in 2018, who helped shape the content for this Pico Block Party.
LOCAL and VISITING ARTIST OPEN STUDIOS:
* David McDonald (Los Angeles)* THE WINTER OFFICE (Denmark)* ha:ar – Hande Şekerciler and Arda Yalkın (Turkey)* Debra Disman (Los Angeles)* Anthony Discenza (San Francisco)
Come sample the creativity in your own backyard, and support local artists in the process!The free family-friendly artistic festival will feature art-making workshops with professional artists, performances, open studios with resident artists, exhibitions, food trucks, artisanal local goods, and other creative activities.
Pico Block Party is BACK! 18th Street Arts Center’s fourth major Pico Block Party community festival celebrates local Santa Monica artists and artisans. For the very first time, we will feature our brand-new, one-of-a-kind Artisan Marketplace, which will showcase the handmade goods of Santa Monica artists, artisans, chefs, and craftspersons! The Pico Block Party series grew out of 18th Street Arts Center’s in-depth community outreach programs, including its bilingualneighborhood oral history project, CultureMapping90404.org. That project spurred the creation of a Neighborhood Advisory Council in 2018, who helped shape the content for this Pico Block Party. Come sample the creativity in your own backyard, and support local artists in the process!The free family-friendly artistic festival will feature art-making workshops with professional artists, performances, open studios with resident artists, exhibitions, food trucks, artisanal local goods, and other creative activities.
Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous FLAG book!
Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.
All materials included.
Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous FLAG book!
Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.
All materials included.
Family Book Art: Flag Books & Found Text
Debra Disman
Saturday June 8: 2:00-5:00pm
FREE
Join us to create the fun, innovative and versatile flag book structure and learn “found writing” techniques to take the anxiety out of the writing process. Learn to fold an accordion spine, attach covers, and add multiple flag book pages which create a pattern and move and groove when the book is opened and shut. Discover the artist, writer, designer and collagist within and learn essential bookmaking skills at the same time. Open to all ages. Children under six should be accompanied by an adult.
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Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman will instruct patrons in how to make a rainbow book in celebration of LGBTQ Heritage Month.
Everyone is welcome to attend this culmination event where everyone who attended a previous bookmaking program can share their creations.
Refreshments will be served.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Join us and learn to create YOUR VERY OWN fun and fabulous handmade book!Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.All materials included.
Discover the artist and writer within while learning bookmaking skills in this hands-on workshop led by 18th Street Arts Center artist, Debra Disman. Learn “found writing” techniques to take the anxiety out of the writing process and create a flag book that is its own work of art! This program is part of the Universe of Stories Summer Reading Program.