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Join us to learn to make a fun accordion fold book with pop-ups that you can use as a gift, a card, or just for yourself!Ages 5-12, all materials provided. Children under 5 will need the active participation of a parent/caregiver.
Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman will lead a "Envelope Bookmaking" workshop!Learn to create a book that can be sent through the mail...snail mail!Create heartfelt gifts and cards, and develop your own content while learning new skills.All are welcome!This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman will lead a workshop that focuses on making a Sidebound Book in celebration of Dia de los Ninos: International Children's and Book Day! This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Join us to create fun, personal, handmade books! Learn glued, folded, and rolled book-making techniques, as well as how to use color, texture, pattern, design, and composition to make your books unique. Families can create books together, work on individual projects, or both! Led by artist Debra Disman.Five Saturdays: April 6, 13, 27, May 4, and 11
Sat, Apr 13, 2019: Make A Folded Fan Book, and be inspired by the Rodin Sculpture Garden and Artist Chris Burden's "Urban Light" installation!
10 am–1 pm
Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous folded fan 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.
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.