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“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
4 events,
Making Books at the Angelo M. Iacoboni Library
Making Books at the Angelo M. Iacoboni Library
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 & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE
PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE
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.
PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE
PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE
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.
2 events,
“Let’s Make Books” at the Maywood Cesar Chavez Library!
“Let’s Make Books” at the Maywood Cesar Chavez Library!
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.
2 events,
Bookmaking at the Topanga Library!
Bookmaking at the Topanga Library!
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.
2 events,
Community Bookmaking Workshop at the Brentwood Art Center!
Community Bookmaking Workshop at the Brentwood Art Center!
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.
Register now!
2 events,
Rainbow Bookmaking Workshop at the Granada Hills Library
Rainbow Bookmaking Workshop at the Granada Hills Library
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.
2 events,
“Let’s Make Books” at the Hawthorne Library!
“Let’s Make Books” at the Hawthorne Library!
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.