Join us for a fun-filled recipe bookmaking program, and create a place to preserve treasured family recipes and new ones too!
Artist Residency The Granada Hills Library
Make A Calendar at the Granada Hills Public Library!
Welcome in 2020 by creating your own calendar and personalize it for you!
Join us for this two-session hands-on bookmaking program, where you will bind together your own 2020 calendar and embellish it to give it your own personal touch. Highlight special dates and events, add birthdays, and put your best foot forward into the New Year!
This program is part of my Artist Residency at the Granada Hills Public Library and is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department Cultural Affairs.
Program runs from 2:30PM – 4:30PM Tuesday and Thursday January 7 and 9, 2020
All ages welcome. Bring the family and create together!
All materials provided.
All that Glitters….
As part of my Artist Residency at the Granada Hills Branch Library supported by the wonderful Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, I led a “gift bookmaking” program for the community.
As we found out, all that glitters may not be gold, but shiny stuff can be really fun to work with and inspire us to add a jewel-like quality to our handmade books.
Adults and children and teens/tweens alike enjoyed cutting out shapes from shiny, glittery adhesive-backed sheets!
The primary colors of red, yellow and blue never get old, especially when there is a glittery twist!
A very talented young maker created a “jewel”-studded book!
And he is a radiant Jewel himself…look at that 1000 watt smile!
A young reader tried his hand a t bookmaking, cheered on my his Mom.
Here are his younger brother’s very seasonal works.
The fruits of their labor.
Participants made their way through the inevitable tangle of colorful ribbon to choose and use pieces to enhance their works.
Ribbon of wonders, just like the participants and their bookish creations!
Make a Gift Book at the Granada Hills Public Library!
Give the gift of books, that you make yourself!
Make a Gift Book at the Granada Hills Public Library!
For the Holiday Season, come join Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman and make a fabulous gift book. This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
MANGA Love at the Granada Hills Branch Library
A workshop designed for teens turned into a family and community affair, at the Granada Hills Branch Library.
As part of my Artist Residency at the Library, supported by the wonderful Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, we held a Flag Bookmaking program with a Manga comics theme. In addition to teens, families and makers of all ages attended, creating wild and wonderful “Manga” Flag Books!
Father and son work closely together, collaborating on a radiant red book.
This brilliant young maker was amused to realize that he was using the same colors in his very cool book as he was wearing!
Sister and brother work side by side. Getting along…in the moment of making.
This wonderful woman has a attended numerous workshops, and is becoming quite the bookmaker!
Three unrelated generations of makers, working together in an atmosphere of collective creativity.
A mother with her two daughters takes advantage of Library offerings.
Makers’ hands.
A measured smile from a teen assistant and maker…using color to tell as story in her book.
Using the popularity of Manga and the arresting structure of the flag book as a means of engagement, participants worked together as a community on their individual projects, learning, enjoying and sharing all at the same time.
Does it get any better than that?
Take Another Look: Making Photo Albums at the Granada Hills Library
To kick off my 2019-20 Artist Residency at the Granada Hills Public Library, supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, I led a bookmaking program in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, where participants learned to make their own photo album.
Participants bound together a single signature (gathering of folded pages) into a binding composed of a tag board sheet folded both horizontally (to create a pocket on either side) and vertically (to create the body of the cover structure and hold the signature), then added stiffer more durable boards on either side to strengthen the covers. They sewed the components together using the pamphlet stitch and ribbon, using enough ribbon so that the ends would be long enough to tie the book closed if they wished.
Mothers and daughter created side by side and shared their work.
As did Mothers and sons,
and the whole family!
Our teen helpers got into the act too…..
and had a blast…
Pride of Book!