Artist
Event Categories:ExhibitionsTeachingPresentations
Artist Debra Disman will teach you how to make a flip book celebrating women artists. This program is part of Women's Heritage Month.
Create a book that stands on its own as a piece of sculpture, and pushes the very idea of 'the book' into new territory. Using new, found, natural and recycled materials you will put together a book that can be cut, built onto, stitched, textured, painted, covered and otherwise transformed into your private universe!
Envelope Book with Debra Disman Use folding and sewing methods to create a book that can be sent in the mail! Write a note to a stranger and add it […]
Join us for the culminating exhibition of studio residents Debra Disman and Huong Nguyen, showing new works in fabric and paper. Debra Disman and Huong Nguyen are sharing the Camera Obscura Art Lab Studio space during their simultaneous residency, which spans January 10 to April 18, 2018.
Join bookmaker Debra Disman and embellish the 'Big Beach Book,' a people-sized book structure she developed with the community during the course of her recent Residency. Use paint pens, maps, repurposed book pages, collage materials and more, and add your special signature to this community driven project, inspired by the Camera, Palisades Park, the Santa Monica Beach and mountains, and of course, the blue Pacific! All are welcome.
Artmaking Series for residents through CCSM: The Community Corporation of Santa Monica,
to create a creative display for the "Window Gallery" at 1424 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
We Will Build, Paint, Embellish!
Weekly from 7pm to 8:30pm on Tuesdays: June 12, 19 and 26.
We Will Build, Paint, Embellish!
“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition
I am extremely honored to have two pieces in FORMATION, The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 traveling juried exhibition, with a theme evoking a wide array of interpretations.
Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form or shape to something,” ‘formation‘ can insinuate process, history, creation, change, beginnings, an arrangement, botany and landscape, personal narratives and impersonal storytelling. As artists, designers and craftspeople with our own histories that form us, we also play a vital role in the formation of objects and experiences; pulp molded into paper, paper folded into books, books shelved into a library.
What is the final product, if not for the methods used to create it? What makes us into the artists we are? What pushes us to continue to create?
Exhibition Schedule:
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
June 15–October 21, 2018
Robert C. Williams Papermaking Museum
Atlanta, GA
November 1, 2018–March 7, 2019
University of California, Los Angeles
Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
March 15–May 25, 2019
North Bennet Street School
Boston, MA
June 5–July 27, 2019
University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
August 1–October 30, 2019
Amuse Yeux: Small Works Show at Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
I am honored to have my piece "Narrow Bridge" included in "Amuse Yeux", a show of small works held at Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO, June 22 - August 5, 2018.
The show is designed to allow new and potentially young art lovers, collectors and buyers the opportunity to view, be exposed to, consider, peruse, contemplate and ultimately purchase works of art.
The Foothills Art Center Member Preview and Artist Reception is June 21, 2018, 6:00 - 8:00PM.
Debra brings back her popular bookmaking classes in a special three-part series. In June, work on Flag Books - a kinetic book whose parts move in separate flags as you page through. July brings Tunnel Books, which draw the reader into a three-dimensional story, and August finishes with Fireworks Books: a bibliotechnical bang which contains a popup structure of repeated forms that unfold from all sides. Bring your work back to the Camera for second Saturday craft lounges and continue your experiments in bookmaking.
I will be teaching a range of classes for the Marlborough Summer School this summer, including "Creating Unique Handmade Books", "Art and Writing", "Building A World", "Red Yellow Blue" (all about color!), "Fairy Tales" (fanciful bookmaking for young children), and "Make Your Own Books".
This is an intensive, daily, five week program, which draws students from all over Los Angeles County. Follow the link to find out more!
Join us at The Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library System on Saturday July 7th at 2PM to create a fun book you can use as a travel journal, and more.
The Los Angeles Public Library Summer Reading Challenge 2018 is READING TAKES YOU ANYWHERE! Make a book that will encourage you to Write, Read, Discover and Explore!
All materials included.
"Make Your Own Travel Journal!"
Learn to create an accordion fold book with pockets to hold your travel treasures!
Tickets, notes, keepsakes, photographs and memories, this book will be something you will want to keep forever to remember your travel adventures and experiences.
The Los Angeles Summer Reading Challenge 2018 theme is:
"Reading Takes You Everywhere", so join us to read, make, discover and explore at the Granada Hills Branch Library.
All ages welcome, all materials provided.