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Creating Sculptural Books with Debra Disman
Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean 1450 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, United StatesCreate 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
Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean 1450 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, United StatesEnvelope 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 to the Big Beach Book onsite, or take home to write your next letter. You can create accordion folded pages that pop out to surprise […]
Debra Disman and Huong Nguyen: New Works
Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean 1450 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, United StatesJoin 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.
Jam out on the Big Beach Book with Debra Disman
Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean 1450 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, United StatesJoin 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.
Three Week “Art and Building” Series with the Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Community Corporation of Santa Monica 1423 2nd St, Ste B, United States 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
“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