Debra Disman

EXHIBITIONISTA: "Paper + Fiber" at 1202 Contemporary
2024-11-13 08:00 - 2025-12-31 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 1202 Contemporary, 7397 Monterey Road, Gilroy, CA, 95020 US, United States
1202 Contemporary proudly presents its 4th annual Paper + Fiber show, celebrating two mediums that women artists have traditionally used for centuries, but have always been considered “craft,” or less than fine art. Uplifting and supporting artists who have worked in textile, fiber, and/or paper mediums, this exhibition centers and hones in on the theme of figure.
Click HERE to view the show!

EXHIBITIONISTA: MAS Attack at the Torrance Art Museum: a pop-up exhibition of solidarity!
2024-12-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Torrance Art Museum (TAM), 3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA, 90503, United States
MAS Attack Returns to TAM Dec 13th!

MAS Attack Returns to the Torrance Art Museum (TAM) – Friday, December 13th, 6-9pm
Calling all artists in SoCal—join us for a pop-up exhibition of solidarity!
After a challenging and divisive period, many artists are uncertain about the future. But the future starts now—and we are stronger together. Join us for the return of the Mutual Appreciation Society event—MAS Attack! This one-night-only exhibition invites all artists to share work that reflects these turbulent times, whether political, emotional, or personal. Art that speaks to where we are, and where we are headed. This is an opportunity to show that community counts, and that we are not alone.
How to Participate
No registration or application is required! Artists are invited to drop off their work at TAM from Tuesday, December 10th to Friday, December 13th, 10am-4pm. The opening reception will be Friday, December 13th, 6-9pm. At 9pm, artists can take their work home with them.
What’s at stake?
With recent tensions and the aftermath of a divisive election, many artists are wondering what comes next. We need to reinforce our sense of community—so we can replace grief, anger, and anxiety with hope, resilience, and strength. MAS Attack is about showing up, sharing art, and reminding each other that we are in this together. We invite all forms of art, all styles, and all voices. Your voice matters.
This is just the beginning. Small steps, but important ones. Let’s come together, renew our bonds, and support each other. Join us on Friday, December 13th—and be part of the future.
Spread the word!

EXHIBITIONISTA: "REWRITING HER STORY" at the Hera Gallery
2025-01-01 00:00 - 2025-12-31 00:00 | Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, 10 High Street, Wakefield, RI, 02879, United States
“Writer Elizabeth Lesser asks “What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her?”
Flipping through the pages of your high school history textbook, how many stories are written about women as monumental protagonists? When was the last time you watched a movie that passed the Bechdel test? When was the last time there were more women than men on the Supreme Court voting on the right to our bodies?
As brands of “faux” feminism partnered with consumerist culture push out media representing women’s liberation through a patriarchal gaze, how can we reclaim the visual language to share more authentic stories? How can our art share the stories of women, trans women, and non-binary folks written out of the history books? How does your work give voice to the overlooked and underrepresented?
Hera Gallery presents 52 works that rewrite this cultural consciousness for a more inclusive human history.”
I am honored to have two pieces in this salient exhibition, and participate in a small way, in Rewriting Her/Our/Their Story.
WHITE ZIP

and
INTO THE BUSH

Please see the SHOW here.

EXHIBITIONISTA: "DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces" at ARTLINK
2025-01-02 10:00 - 2025-02-02 18:00 | ARTLINK-AUER Center for Arts and Culture, 300 East main Street, Fort Wayne, IN, 46802, United States
I am thrilled to participate in the exhibition: “DWELLINGS: An Exhibition of Inhabited Spaces” at ARTLINK, at the Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, Indiana. I love to get my work involved in events and shows all across the country, in areas not considered major art centers and off the edges of the US. I find the commitment and caliber of shows, curators/jurors, artists and work to be audacious and inspiring on all fronts.
“For the exhibition DWELLINGS, juried by Steve Garst, Artlink invited artists to submit works of any media that involve homes, shelters, forts, nests, burrows, or any other forms of inhabited space used by humans or non-humans. Where a creature lays its head can be a place of refuge, sustenance, and identity. They are cauldrons of growth, filled with love, hurt, anger, learning, and memory. Often, homes are constructed and, in turn, end up constructing the lives of those who dwell within them, for better or worse. Artlink is excited to offer an exhibition exploring the variety of human and non-human places that serve as home, in all its numerous manifestations.”
I am showing “Window Treatment”

Window Treatment, 2018, 13 x 38 x 9.25″, book board/file folders/file cards/hemp cord, wax

EXHIBITIONISTA: LA OPEN 2025
2025-01-08 13:00 - 2025-01-24 19:00 | Tag Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, United States
The Artists Gallery (TAG) Presents:
The L.A. Open 2025
Wednesday, January 8 through Friday, January 24
Awards Reception: Saturday, January 11th, 2025, 5 – 8 pm
TAG and the L.A. Open celebrate art and creativity in Los Angeles County!
I am thrilled to show two works in this fun and fantastic annual show!

The Body Politic: Black and Gold, 2024, 8.5 x 23 x 7″, book board, paint, canvas, metal leaf, lace, cord, netting, trim, beads

Hopes and Fears and…, 2020, 24.5 x 16.25″, textile samples, linen thread

JUROR: Genie Davis
Genie Davis is a writer who loves and writes about art as well as a wide range of other subjects as a journalist, biographer, novelist, and WGA-W screen and television writer. You can see her written work in the arts on her own www.diversionsLA.com as well as in past publications of Artillery, Art & Cake, Art Scene, Fabrik, and Riot Material.
She is the curator of 2023’s Leaving Eden, a two-person thematic exhibition at Keystone Art Space; September 2024’s Thresholds, a small group exhibition at Gallery of Hermosa; and upcoming in March 2025, the international exhibition Windswept at Wonzimer Gallery.
MORE INFO HERE!

EXHBITIONISTA: "Visual Language of Modernity" with WHOSMUSEUM at the Sasse Museum
2025-02-01 11:00 - 2025-02-22 17:00 | Sasse Museum of Art, Progress Building | Basement Level 300 South Thomas Street |, CA, Pomona, CA, 91766, United States
I am looking forward to participating in the upcoming exhibition “Visual Language of Modernity“
“Visual Language of Modernity” is visioned to be a resourceful group exhibition showcasing contemporary artworks by international artists. The artworks have been chosen to provide a unique lens at the complexities and modernity of multi-cultural backgrounds and identities in globalization and diaspora. The exhibition will showcase a wide range of art forms, medias and materials, from traditional techniques to digital work and installation art. The exhibition has been designed to reflect the multi-aspects of modern creation.
“Visual Language of Modernity” a juried exhibition masterfully curated by Shuai Xu, emerges as a groundbreaking showcase of contemporary artworks that challenges our understanding of identity in an increasingly interconnected world. This international exhibition brings together artists whose works navigate the complex intersection of tradition, displacement, and cultural evolution in our globalized society.”–Sasse Museum of Art

In collaboration with WHOSMUSEUM and Sasse Museum of Art, the “Visual Language of Modernity” will take place in the Sasse Museum of Art located in the diverse-cultural Downtown Pomona Arts Colony at 300 S. Thomas St., Pomona.
The exhibition will run from February 1st to February 22nd, 2025.
The local art community and world-wide art lovers are encouraged to experience this dynamic exploration of art, culture, and aesthetic presentations emerging from multi-cultural artists’ communities, their artistic languages integrated with innovation and modernity.
I am very happy to be showing:
“Concurrencies I: Charlotte Salomon Eva Hesse”, 2022, 58 x 19.5″, denim, varnish, hemp cord, gold thread

EXHIBITIONISTA: EXPO 44 at B.J. Spoke Gallery
2025-02-01 11:00 - 2025-03-31 17:00 | B.J. Spoke Gallery, 299 Main Street, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States
I am thrilled to participate in EXPO 44 presented online by B.J. Spoke Gallery.

Juror: Emily Olek is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before joining MoMA, Emily was the Janet and Craig Duchossois Curatorial Research Assistant in Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked on projects including Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw, Hairy Who? 1966-1969, and Lygia Pape: Tecelares. She also worked on exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Emily recently completed her M.A. at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a concentration in American works on paper and holds a B.A. in Art History from Loyola University Chicago. Her Master’s Thesis entitled “So-Called “Outsiders”: A Case Against the Moniker” won UIC Graduate College’s 2022 Outstanding Thesis Award.

View my WORK in the show here!
Reception will be Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 7:00pm (EST) via ZOOM. The reception will be recorded.
Everybody will be there:
Selected Artists! Juror! Gallery Members! Guests!
Register below and Zoom will send you a link to enter the reception.
JOIN US!
Register HERE for Expo Reception

View my WORK here!

EXHIBTIONISTA: "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover" at the the Cultural Center of Cape Cod
2025-02-03 12:00 - 2025-03-01 17:00 | Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA, 02664, United States
I am thrilled to participate in:
“Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover“, an evocative visual art exhibition designed to challenge our perceptions and invite us to look beyond the superficial. This engaging showcase, presented at the Cultural Center, features a variety of artists who use unexpected materials, surprising forms, and innovative techniques to question the initial impressions and judgments we often make.
Each piece in the collection serves as a metaphor for the complexity of identity and the hidden depths beneath external appearances. By juxtaposing the seen with the unseen, this exhibition encourages viewers to reconsider how they interpret not only art but each other in everyday life
Join us from February 3 – March 1, 2025, for a transformative journey that redefines what it means to truly ‘see.’

Bookmaking with Love at the West Hollywood Library!
2025-02-08 14:00 - 15:30 | West Hollywood Library, 625 N San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, 90069, United States
I am thrilled to lead a Valentine’s bookmaking program February 8th, 2025, at 2PM at The West Hollywood Library, a beautiful and welcoming place for the whole community!
Learn to create your own accordion fold book with pockets and pop-ups you can give a a gift for Valentine’s Day or keep for yourself!
Put special messages into the pockets, and learn how to create fun pop-ups including hearts!
Refreshments and all materials included.
Join us and Feel the Love!

EXHIBTIONISTA: "PENDULUM" at A.D. Gallery
2025-02-12 11:00 - 2025-03-08 17:00 | A.D. Gallery, Locklear Hall PO Box 1510, Pembroke, NC, 28372, United States
I am happy to participate in the exhibition PENDULUM, at The A.D. Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
“Gains/losses, highs/lows, submerge/emerge……our human experience swings on a pendulum. While we all aim for homeostasis, the moments the pendulum swings are often when we feel the most alive, when we are called to act or react. In the past 20 years, we have faced major political, social, environmental, and personal shifts. These shifts have presented us with obstacles, challenges as well as moments for reinvention and emergence. This call looks for art that visualizes a swing in the pendulum, a life altering moment, a shift in the trajectory.”
Juror: Emily Beck
Emily Scott Beck is an interdisciplinary artist and professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame. Her work manipulates and re-contextualizes aspects of our identity that are often hidden within the layers of human communication and interaction. Using video, animation, photography, sculpture, fibers, installation, and sound, she captures experiences of emotional vulnerability, unrehearsed performances, gender construction, systems of belief, and women’s labor and leadership. A focus on art as a powerful tool for visual communication and social change is a common thread between her studio practice and her teaching. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States, including the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, the South Bend Museum of Art in South Bend, IN, Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin Texas, and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL.
I am showing my page-less Artists’ Book,
“It’s Not Black and White”, 2021, 9 x 22 x 7.5″
book board, canvas, paper, typewriter ribbon, hemp cord, typewriter ribbon, hemp cord

READ THE PRESS RELEASE!

EXHIBITIONISTA: "PAPER" Presented by SITE: BROOKLYN
2025-02-13 00:00 - 2025-03-13 00:00 | Site: Brooklyn, New York City, NY, United States
“PAPER” is presented online by Site: Brooklyn
February 13, 2025 – March 13, 2025
SEE THE SHOW HERE!
The 20th century marked the peak, and subsequent decline, of paper’s dominance over everyday life. “Paperwork” is still a near-universal experience, but like everything else, has taken a more-and-more virtual form. Paper, unlike most artistic mediums, is a substrate first and artistic medium second. Created from textile waste, paper is woven very deeply into the fabric of modern life. It can be equally associated with the transformation of work, easy replication, industriousness, disposability, creativity, and experimentation. Since its invention, these qualities have encouraged artists to prepare, design, and experiment on paper. Ironically, it was in the later part of the 20th century when artists like Dorothea Rockburne. Ed Ruscha, and Robert Rauschenberg took the investigations of the Cubists into papier collé and developed paper as both a physical object, and a subject. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works that continue and expand this tradition.
Exhibition Juror, Rachel Gladfelter, is the Director at Pace Paper. Previously, she was the gallery director for the Pace Prints NYC, a fine art print gallery specializing in original, limited-edition prints in collaboration with printmaking affiliates, Pace Editions and Pace Paper. Before that, Gadfelter held the position of Studio Director for Dieu Donne Paper.
Site:Brooklyn Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting the current practice of contemporary artists. We are taking Site:Brooklyn online with a new series of interactive exhibitions. Our goal remains the same, to connect artists with an expert and diverse set of jurors through the open call format. Our new program focuses on online open call exhibitions, selected by a cast of new jurors, solo artist features, and spotlights.
SEE THE SHOW HERE!

"We Write The Book" February Kick-off at the Northridge Branch Library!!!!
2025-02-19 15:30 - 17:00 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
“We Write The Book” comes to Northridge!

Beginning February 19 2025 @ 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Join us and learn to create an accordion-fold book with pockets!

I am thrilled to work again with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR)

I will be an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, every other Wednesday afternoon, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturday 11:00am – 12:30PM
I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.
Let the bookmaking begin!

EXHIBITIONISTA: 62nd Annual Juried Competition: Mazur Museum
2025-02-20 11:00 - 2025-05-03 17:00 | Mazur Museum, 1400 South Grand Street, Monroe, LA, 71202, United States
I am thrilled to participate in “The 62nd Annual Juried Competition” at Mazur Museum!
About the Exhibition
The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. First started in 1964, the Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year. This year, 1400 artworks were submitted by artists all over the nation, in all styles and media.

Exhibition on view Feb 20 – May 3, 2025
Public Reception: January 20, 2025 5:30 – 7:30 PM
I am honored to show: “The Body Politic: Black and Gold”

2024, 8.5 x 23 x 7″, bk board, paint, canvas, metal leaf, lace, cord, netting, trim, beads

About the Juror
Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, who has curated several exhibitions for the Masur Museum of Art including Kogyo: Japanese Woodblock Prints (2022), Treasures of Art Nouveau (2019) and Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia (2018). Her more recent projects include Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum and A Creative Place at the Trout Museum of Art. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins has a MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council

"We Write The Book" FLAG BOOK Workshop at the Northridge Library!
2025-03-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us as we learn to create the fun and fantastic FLAG BOOK at the Northridge Branch Library in honor of Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day, and Women Artists everywhere!
Learn about ground breaking women artists Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O’Keeffe. All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, every other Wednesday afternoon, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturday 11:00am – 12:30PM

JOIN US!

EXHIBITIONISTA: "Cut/Fold/Press" at Craft Alliance!
2025-03-14 09:00 - 2025-04-25 17:00 | Craft Alliance, 5080 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63108, United States
I am thrilled to participate in “Cut/Fold/Press” juried by artist and educator Buzz Spector at Craft Alliance showing “Burning Bush”

7.5 x 11 x 5.5″, board, mulberry paper, sewing thread, linen thread
“At times, paper is often thought as a vehicle for other artistic practices. This exhibit embraces the transformational quality of paper and the art created using paper as a primary material. Juried by Craft Alliance’s inaugural Visiting Artist, Buzz Spector, this exhibition brings together compelling work on a seemingly simple material and craft form. CUT/FOLD/PRESS asks paper artists to explore and consider the many forms that paper art takes—books, sculpture, and sheet.
The exhibition presents artists who use paper as their primary medium or create artworks made on, of, or about paper including cut paper, folded paper, woven paper, glued paper, drawings, paintings, pastels, printmaking, photographs, paper sculpture, 3D, bound books, collage, or as the subject of a video and installation.”
Buzz Spector is an artist, writer and emeritus professor of art at Washington University in St. Louis. His academic career includes five years’ service as dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts (2009–2013). Spector has also taught at Cornell University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a full professor and at numerous institutions as visiting or adjunct faculty.
Spector’s art practice makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and focuses on relationships between public history, individual memory and perception. He has had numerous exhibits in private and institutional galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and his solo or two-person museum exhibits have taken place at the Saint Louis Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and most recently, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL.
Spector has also published two books, Buzzwords (Sara Ranchouse Publishing, 2012) and The Book Maker’s Desire (Umbrella Editions, 1994). He has also written numerous exhibition catalog essays, including for exhibits by Luis Camnitzer, Ann Hamilton, Dan Ramirez and Dieter Roth. Additionally, Spector received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art award in 2013.
Craft Alliance is located in The Maker District of St. Louis, is a hub for artists, enthusiasts, and students to explore, learn, and celebrate the world of contemporary craft. We offer studios for ceramics, print and paper arts, metals, fibers, glass, wood, an artists-in-residence program, robust community programs, and an exhibition program.

“We Write The Book” Closed-Spine Accordion Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library!
2025-03-19 15:30 - 17:00 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY and WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!
Join us as we learn to how to create the fun and fantastic Closed-Spine Accordion Book at the Northridge Branch Library in honor of Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day, and Women Artists everywhere!
Learn about ground breaking women artists Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O’Keeffe. All materials included!

Wednesday March 19 @ 3:30 – 5PM
FREE!
All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, every other Wednesday afternoon, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturday 11:00am – 12:30PM

JOIN US!

EXHIBITIONISTA: "A Woman's Place - Visual Voices" at The EBELL of Los Angeles
2025-03-20 06:30 - 2025-04-25 17:00 | The EBELL of Los Angeles, 741 S Lucerne Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90005, United States
I am thrilled to participate in “A Woman’s Place: Visual Voices”, a tribute to the profound impact of women’s narratives. This exhibition, in celebration of Women’s History Month, serves as a platform for artists to amplify stories that have often been overshadowed or marginalized. It provides a space where the rich tapestry of women’s experiences can be vividly depicted and shared in a manner that crosses language and cultural barriers.
Held at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles, 743 South Lucerne Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90005, on view from March 20 to April 24, 2025.
Opening Reception: March 20, 2025 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

If you have questions about this event, please email: tickets@ebellofla.org or call 323-931-1277 x 131.
Juried by:

Andi Campognone has over 30 years of arts experience in the western region of the United States. She is the Owner/Director of AC Projects, a private consulting organization focused on promoting arts and culture through museum quality projects that include the production of books, films and traveling exhibitions. Campognone is the Founding Director of Kipaipai Professional Development Workshops. She is also the Museum Manager/Curator for the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California with a mission of exhibiting and highlighting the history and contributions of southern California post 1945. She has served as Cultural Arts Commissioner for the City of Pomona, California where she contributed to the writing and adoption of Pomona’s Cultural Arts Master Plan and Art in Public Places Policy. She currently serves as a Director on the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation Board, Director on the Bear Valley Springs Cultural Art Association, is a grant panelist for Los Angeles County Arts Commission and California Community Foundation
Based in Los Angeles, Lilly Dawson is an independent curator and Principal of Gray Dawson Art Advisory, dealing with institutional and private clients in the United States and Europe. She specializes in American and European Impressionist and Modern art, contemporary and photographs. She has held senior positions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Driscoll Babcock Galleries in New York and Dickinson Gallery in London.
Jennifer S. Li is an art advisor, writer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the art world. She is the LA Desk Editor for ArtAsiaPacific and her art criticism and writing also appears regularly in publications such as Art in America, Frieze, Architectural Digest, Sight Unseen, and more. She also currently works with collectors across the United States to build collections focusing on emerging as well as established and blue-chip artists. Previously, Jennifer worked for institutions such as the Getty, the Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA.

“We Write The Book” Double Signature Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library!
2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY and WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!
SATURDAY March 22 11 AM – 12:30 PM
Join us as we learn to how to create a fun and fantastic Accordion Fold Book with Pockets AND Pages at the Northridge Branch Library in honor of Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day, and Women Artists everywhere!
Learn about ground breaking women artists Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama , Louise Nevelson, Betye Saar, Georgia O’Keeffe.
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, every other Wednesday afternoon, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturday 11:00am – 12:30PM
JOIN US!

Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman
2025-04-01 17:00 - 19:00 | 18th Street Arts Center Olympic Campus, 1653 18th Street, Studio 1, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
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” Flower Fold Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library in Honor of National Poetry Month!
2025-04-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us as we learn to create the fun and fantastic Flower Fold Book, in honor of National Poetry Month!
SATURDAY April 5 11 AM – 12:30 PM
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, every other Wednesday afternoon, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturday 11:00am – 12:30PM
JOIN US!

“We Write The Book” Sidebound Bookmaking Northridge Library in Honor of National Poetry Month!
2025-04-16 15:30 - 17:00 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us as we learn to create the fun and fantastic Sidebound Book structure in honor of National Poetry Month!
Wednesday April 16 3:30-5PM
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, every other Wednesday afternoon, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturday 11:00am – 12:30PM
JOIN US!

“We Write The Book” Single Signature Bookmaking at the Northridge Library in Honor of National Poetry Month!
2025-04-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us and learn how to create a Single Signature Book at the Northridge Library in Honor of National Poetry Month!

Saturday April 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

“We Write The Book” Tunnel Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library!
2025-05-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us at the Northridge Branch Library as we learn to create the fun and fantastic Tunnel Book structure in honor of Springtime and Storymaking!
Saturday May 3 – 11AM-12:30PM
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, on selected Wednesday afternoons, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturdays 11:00am – 12:30PM
Please note date change, May 21st Saturday program is now May 14th! Same time and place!

EXHIBITIONISTA: "FIBER" at Silvermine Arts Center
2025-05-10 10:00 - 2025-06-19 16:00 | SILVERMINE Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT, 06840, United States
I am thrilled to participate in FIBER:
This international exhibition seeks to showcase the best of contemporary fiber art that reflect the breadth of functional or non-functional works that use fiber and/or fiber art techniques in traditional or innovative ways. Artwork in this exhibition may be made from natural or high tech materials that reference fiber and that blur the lines between art, architecture and craft.
Opening Reception on Saturday, May 17, 5-7pm Curators:Tom Grotta and Rhonda Brown
Tom and Rhonda have showcased modern fiber art since the 1980s, championing fiber art’s evolution and future. Representing over 100 artists from 25 countries, the gallery‘s exhibitions, art fairs, and partnerships with museums have placed works in prestigious collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. Tom, a Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, is renowned for his photography of fiber art and knowledge of contemporary textiles. Rhonda’s background as a lawyer and writer informs her editorial leadership at browngrotta arts. Rhonda oversees the gallery’s catalogs, blog, and social media, ensuring its continued influence in fiber art.
SEE THE SHOW HERE!See My Work HERE! I am honored to be showing with: (several of whom I know and have shown with before)
Becca Barolli – Bethlehem, CT / Eszter Bornemisza – Budapest, Hungary / Carolyn Carson – Pittsburgh, PA
Monica Carvalho – Rio de Janeiro , Brazil / Wan Lin Chang – Taichung City, Taiwan
Cheyenne Concepcion – San Francisco, CA / Jennifer Davies – Branford , CT / Sherry Davis – Riverhead, NY
Ellen Dickinson – Roslyn Heights, NY / Debra Disman – Los Angeles, CA / Rosana Escobar – Bogota, CO
Sarah Haskell – York, ME / Elizabeth Joo – Chicago, IL / Anna Kocherovsky – West Bloomfield, MI
Alexandra Kohl – Mamaroneck, NY / Haeley Kyong – Franklin Lakes, NJ / Mati Laforge – Montréal, Canada
Fannie Lee – Brooklyn, NY / Laura Foster Nicholson – New Harmony, IN / Amy Putansu – Waynesville , NC
Joh Ricci – Gettysburg, PA / Michael Rohde – Thousand Oaks, CA / Theda Sandiford – Union City, NJ
Tushita Singh Singh – Uttar Pradesh, India / Adrienne Sloane – Watertown, MA / Justyna Solomianko – Bialystok, Poland
Gerri Spilka – Philadelphia, PA / Susan Tonkin Riegel – Granite Bay ,CA / Stefania Urist – Londonderry, VT
Mila Vovk – Irvine, CA / Alice Wiese – Mill Valley, CA

EXHIBITIONISTA: "CARE" at Hera Gallery
2025-05-10 13:00 - 2025-06-14 17:00 | Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, 10 High Street, Wakefield, RI, 02879, United States
Hera Gallery proudly presents CARE, a national juried exhibition exploring the concept of care through the eyes of artists from around the country.

Works selected by Priya N. Green, Artist, Painting Faculty, Director of CCSU Chen Art Gallery
May 10th – June 14th, 2025
Opening Reception Saturday, May 10th, 6-8pm
Mix & Mingle: Arts & Health Thursday May 22nd, 6 -7:30pm
Virtual Artist Talk Thursday, May 29th, 7pm via Zoom

When you hear or read the word CARE…
Do you hear a noun, a verb, an imperative? Do you feel comforted, overwhelmed, or inspired by the sound and meaning of the word Care?
Hera Gallery is interested in how we as artists and as society relate to the concept of care at this moment in time.
From taking care and giving care to self-care, and the call to care – the idea of care runs through all our lives from beginning to end. Human care, animal care, environmental care, or caring for an idea, a faith, a passion, a commitment. Care is associated with cultural connections, age, and gender. How is this shifting? How do we find balance when engaged in caregiving at all levels?
Artists respond to the question:
How does the word Care resonate with you, which images, stories, sentiments does it bring forth in you? Which role does care play in your life as an artist and in your artistic practice?
I am thrilled to share my triptych “RENT WOUND TEAR MEND HEAL REPAIR” 64 x 68 x .5″ (dimnesions variable), canvas, paint, hemp cord, string, lace, in this timely show

“We Write The Book” Two-in-One Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library!
2025-05-14 15:30 - 17:00 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us at the Northridge Branch Library as we learn to create fun and fantastic “Two-in-one books”, also called, “Dos-à-dos binding” in honor of Springtime and Storymaking!

Wednesday May 14 – 3:30PM – 5:00PM
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, on selected Wednesday afternoons, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturdays 11:00am – 12:30PM
Please note date change, May 21st Saturday program is now May 14th!
Same time and place! 11:00AM – 12:30PM at the Northridege Branch Library!

“We Write The Book” BOX OF FIREWORKS Bookmaking Workshop at the Northridge Library!
2025-05-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
Join us at the Northridge Branch Library as we learn to create the fun and fantastic “BOX OF FIREWORKS” book, invented by British artist Paul Johnson, in honor of Springtime and Storymaking!

Saturday May 17 – 11:00AM – 1:00PM
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! All materials included!

I am thrilled to work with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Neighborhood Engagement Artist Residency (NEAR). I am honored to be serving the City of Los Angeles again through the DCA.

I am an artist-in-residence at the Northridge Branch Library, conducting bookmaking workshops and events for the local community and library patronage from February through May, 2025, on selected Wednesday afternoons, 3:30-5:00PM, and Saturdays 11:00am – 12:30PM
Please note date change, May 21st Saturday program is now May 14th!
Same time and place! 11:00AM – 12:30PM at the Northridege Branch Library!

EXHIBITIONISTA: "Stories Untold: The Book Reimagined"
2025-05-24 10:00 - 2025-07-27 16:00 | View Arts Center, 3273 State Route 28 | PO Box 1144, Old Forge, NY, 13420
I am thrilled to participate in “Stories Untold: The Book Reimagined“ at View Arts Center in Old Forge, NY.
For over five hundred years, printed books have connected us on an extraordinary level by spreading common ideas, inspiration, creativity, and knowledge. The exhibition Stories Untold: The Book Reimagined will showcase creations that transform, reference, and reimagine this widely used form, drawing inspiration from its content, history, and physicality. This includes everything from handmade books to book sculptures and beyond.
Opening Reception on May 23, from 5 – 7 pm. The reception is free and open to the public.
I am delighted to show: “The Body Politic: Like White on White”, 2024, 9 x 16 x 7″, book board, paint, canvas, hemp/assorted cord, trim

Juror of Selection: Rhoda Rosenberg
In 1979 Rosenberg was a Finalist in Printmaking for a Massachusetts Council on the Arts Grant. In 2003, she was recognized for outstanding teaching with School of the Museum of Fine Art’s Russel T. Smith Award, and has received a SMFA’s Faculty Enrichment Grant for her work in South Africa. In 2005 she received a grant from the Artist Resource Trust Grant at the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and an Atlantic Papers Materials Award at Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial in 2007.
Despite a demanding teaching schedule, Rosenberg has exhibited prints and artist’s books in numerous shows every year since 1979. A master printmaker, Rosenberg owns and operates the Merrimac Printmaking Studio out of her home in Merrimac, MA.

"We Write the Book" CULMINATION EVENT!!!
2025-05-31 11:00 - 13:00 | Northridge Branch Library, 9051 Darby Avenue, Northridge, 91325, United States
You are invited to our free CULMINATION event for our “We Write the Book” program with Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman.
Please join us to see some of the books participant have created, enjoy refreshments, and learn how to make a book of your own!
All materials included!
Supported by the Los Angles Department of Cultural Affairs.

celebration

"Let's Make a Flag Book!" at the Manhattan Beach Library!
2025-06-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Manhattan Beach Library, 1320 Highland Ave, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266, United States
Let’s Make a Flag Book!
In-Person Program!

Saturday, June 14
11:00am – 12:00pm
Manhattan Beach Library

Celebrate Flag Day by learning how to make your own handmade flag book. All materials and instructions will be provided by artist and book maker Debra Disman. For adults.

Attendance is limited and advance registration is required.
This event is generously sponsored by Manhattan Beach Friends of the Library.

AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Books, Poetry, & Writing | Arts, Crafts, & Hobbies |
TAGS: | Summer Discovery Program |
