Debra Disman

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18th Street Arts Center

THE INTERSECTION-Where Art and Community Meet: Flag Bookmaking at 18th Street Arts Center

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Working with the 18th Street Arts Center Community.
Making Flag Books.

On April 1st, 2025 (no joke).

A sublime experience.

Loved every minute.

Share the experience:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-Oe8zYKArc
Animator Stephen Siemens Works his Flag Book
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fQl1I-KdJT0
Poet Susan Suntree and her Alter

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Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman!

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Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman

April 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

FREE!

Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman
Tuesday, April 1st | 5PM – 7PM
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free + Open to the Public

Formally Happy Hours and Potlucks, these gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist: Debra Disman.

Please join us to create & learn, express & enjoy together! Debra Disman will lead us through the making of fun and fantastic “Flag Books”, made of an accordion-folded spine and intimate flag pages onto which you can inscribe your own text, found or otherwise, imagery or any combination of these to tell your own story of the present moment as you are experiencing it. All materials will be provided but if you would like, please bring ephemera and memorabilia to personalize to your book.

 

Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman

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Intersection: where art and community meet with Debra Disman
Tuesday, April 1st | 5PM – 7PM
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free + Open to the Public

Formally Happy Hours and Potlucks, these gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist: Debra Disman.

Please join us to create & learn, express & enjoy together! Debra Disman will lead us through the making of fun and fantastic “Flag Books”, made of an accordion-folded spine and intimate flag pages onto which you can inscribe your own text, found or otherwise, imagery or any combination of these to tell your own story of the present moment as you are experiencing it. All materials will be provided but if you would like, please bring ephemera and memorabilia to personalize to your book.


 

 

Open Studio Take 2

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Thrilled to have my nephew Sam visiting and here for our Open Studios at 18th Street.

Thanks to Henry Graham Murray for the images!


Open Studio Open HeART

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18th Street Arts Center  OPEN STUDIOS  October 20, 2024


With sister Susan and nephew Sam inside “KnoW Safe Place“


With sis Susan inside “KnoW Safe Place“


Thank you Victoria 


Sam chats with fellow Artist in Residence Dan S. Wang


A lovely offering brought home. Thank you B. Susan!

Open Studios October 20th at 18th Street Arts Center!

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Join us to attend 18th Street Art Center‘s  Change the Future event and Artist Open Studios on Sunday, October 20th from 3-7 PM.
I am thrilled to open my studio and participate!

Olympic Campus: Artist Open Studios
Sunday, October 20 | 3-7 PM
18th Street Arts Center Olympic Campus
1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Free + Open to the Public

The artists at 18th Street Arts Center Olympic Campus are opening their studios to the public on Sunday, October 20th from 3 to 7 PM as part of our Change the Future event.

Participating Artists: David McDonald, Diana Taylor, Anne Krinsky, Debra Disman, Dan Wang, Ara Oshagan, Labkhand Olfatmanesh, Luciana Abait, Les Guthman, Susan Kleinberg and Yvette Gellis

Sign up below (as part of our Change the Future event) to RSVP and receive automatic reminders about this event! Pre-registration is appreciated, but not required to attend.

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We’re just over two weeks away from our Change the Future event including Artist Open Studios on Sunday, October 20th from 3-7 PM.

This all-ages event blends creativity, technology and environmental action. Explore interactive installations, fly a giant augmented reality kite over Santa Monica, participate in hands-on workshops, and tour artist studios, all while discovering ways to protect our planet.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL AGES WELCOME!
I’ll Be There!

A Peek Inside: 
Anne Krinsky combines painting, print, photography and video with archival and geographical research. She is fascinated by the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of the physical world. Since 2018, she has been working on an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change.
Diana Taylor works across painting, textiles and print media, exploring notions of time, loss and ruin in visual culture. Recurring motifs that reflect her interests are appropriated from museum catalogues, architectural reference books, craft kits, botanical guides, books on geology, ancient ruins, domestic patterns and other print ephemera.
David McDonald works in both sculpture and painting. The visual qualities of his work vary, but they are connected through a belief in process and intuition as a way of developing work. He believes all things in the natural world are interdependent, and creates situations within his work where this is true.
Debra Disman is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her work inspired by the book, which traverses textiles, installation, sculpture and performance to push the familiar into forms that arrest and baffle, while simultaneously offering places of contemplation and solace.