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PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE

May 26, 2019 By Debra Disman


PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE
18th Street Arts Center Campus
June 1, 2019 | 3-6 PM
FREE | RSVP HERE FOR FREE TICKETS

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.

Come sample the creativity in your own backyard, and support local artists in the process!

Artist Open Studios:

* David McDonald (Los Angeles)
* THE WINTER OFFICE (Denmark)
* ha:ar – Hande Şekerciler and Arda Yalkın (Turkey)
* Debra Disman (Los Angeles) I will be offering a family friendly collaborative project ongoing in my Studio for the whole Festival. Come join us!
* Anthony Discenza (San Francisco)
* and more…

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.

Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, community festival celebrates local Santa Monica artists and artisans, free family-friendly artistic festival, local artist, Local Artist in Residence, PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE

PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE

May 19, 2019 By Debra Disman

Join us at the one and only 2019

PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE
18th Street Arts Center Campus
June 1, 2019 | 3-6 PM
FREE | RSVP HERE FOR FREE TICKETS

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!

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)
* and more…

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.


FREE | RSVP HERE FOR FREE TICKETS

For questions or to request a free community group booth, email sbyank@18thstreet.org.

Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, 18th Street Arts Center Campus, Community, Community Festival, local Santa Monica artists and artisans, Open Studios, PICO BLOCK PARTY & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE, Pico neighborhood

The Art of Bookmaking

April 8, 2019 By Debra Disman

SDiscover the artist and writer within while learning bookmaking skills in this hands-on workshop led by 18th Street Arts Center artist, Debra Disman. Learn “found writing” techniques to take the anxiety out of the writing process and create a flag book that is its own work of art!

This program is part of the Universe of Stories Summer Reading Program.

GRADES 6-12 / Held in THE ANNEX

 

Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, Artists' Book/s, Bookmaking, Community Arts programs, Flag Book, Handmade Books, Library Arts and Crafts programs, Pico Branch Library, Santa Monica Public Library, Teen Art programs

Working It: Processing the Untitled

April 5, 2019 By Debra Disman

Documenting a bit of process, and hopefully progress.
Much harder than posting about teaching artistry, and the work of my wondrous students..

I will try my hand at it, and hopefully find my way, a way.

Time, as usual, is an issue.
Focused meditative time, is needed, and after home and studio, there just isn’t much to spare.

But, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Pushing into new materials….layering on gossamer cheesecloth onto a structure, because of its weave of threads, needed to coat the whole surface with acid-free PVA/glue,  and place the cheesecloth on it, cut around it and trim the excess when surface dried…surprisingly quickly, with the sun and a light breeze coming in through the window.

The light-filled space at 18th Street is perfect for this work, this effort, these discoveries, this journey.


Multiple surfaces, the nature of many book structures comprised of covers, spine and pages compels working one surface at a time, letting it dry and then moving to the next one.


Cheesecloth layered over raw canvas, layered over book board. The cheesecloth is unruly stuff…more like threads kept in place loosely, by the cross weave.


The two pieces of board, AKA, covers, are hinged together with long strands of jute cord, raw jute, so raw it has a fragrance. Strand are threaded through corresponding holes made with the awl in both covers, which move by sliding left and right over the cords. Simple, yet amazingly effective.

The juxtaposition of the materials in layering, adjacency and flow, as regard to interlocking color, differentiated textures and various states of unravel, fascinates me….how does the light get in and travel through, or not, how does the dimensionality affect how we see and respond to the work, sensorily, emotionally, viscerally, how do the materials work together in some kind of harmony, yet buttress up against each other with force at the same time?

Need to push on, need to keep exploring, finding more questions with just the tiniest intimation of any answer in them.

Think I will keep on going.

 

Filed Under: Artists' Books, New Work, Work Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Awl, BOOK STRUCTURE, Dimensionality, Jute, Process, Sculpture, Structure, Studio, Studio Work

Open Studio at 18th Street Arts Center

December 26, 2018 By Debra Disman

“We the Artists”

18th Street Arts Center

30th Anniversary Celebration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photograph by Debra Disman

Cynthia Underwood

Asia Sztencel

Mark Henry Samuel

Photography except for top image of !8th Street Arts Center by Salvador Ochoa

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, Exhibitions, New Work, Work Tagged With: "We the Artists", 18th Street Arts Center, 30th Anniversary Celebration, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Asia Sztencel, Cynthia Underwood, Debra Disman, Mark Henry Samuel, Open Studio, Open Studios, Salvador Ochoa, We the Artists 30th Anniversary Celebration

18(2) Studio Notes/Working at 18th Street Arts Center

December 5, 2018 By Debra Disman

Studio at 18th Street Arts Center…in process.

Older work…still under scrutiny.

making of the walls leading to the closet a Gallery.

This makes it easy to continue to peruse this work.

Earlier work: handmade books, artists’ books, sculptures.

Supplies, materials, material, samples, readymades, and student clay works, next to, and below.

Air dry clay dries fast in the Studio.

Material world…

and worlds.

From whence we go, denim.

OnWards.

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, New Work, Work Tagged With: 18th Street Arts Center, Artists' Book/s, Local Artist in Residence, New Work, New Works, Sculptural Artist Books, Studio Work

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