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Community Artmaking
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.
Bookmaking series with Debra Disman at The Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean
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.
BOOKMAKING AT THE LOS ANGELES CENTRAL LIBRARY!
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.