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In Resonant Residence (10)

March 22, 2018 By Debra Disman

In Resonant Residence (10)

I formally began Studio Residency at the Camera Obscura Art Lab

in Santa Monica Wednesday January 10th.  I share the sunlit space, located within the beautiful Mid-century building overlooking Palisades Park, Santa Monica Beach and the blue Pacific with textile artist and fellow Studio Artist-in-Residence Huong Nguyen.
“About the Art Lab and Camera Obscura

1450 Exterior
Vintage Camera Obscura
 
 
 
 
Step inside the Camera Obscura Art Lab and you’ll find a welcoming space with fantastic views of Santa Monica Bay and the Pier. The Camera is located in a midcentury time capsule in Palisades Park between Broadway and Santa Monica Blvd on what was once the site of the Pacific Electric Railway’s North Beach Station. Designed by noted architect Weldon J. Fulton (who’s work can be found around town including the classic Camera Obscura sign and font, the Montana and Fairview branch libraries, and the former Zucky’s building on Wilshire Blvd), the building’s exterior features walls clad in chunky Palos Verdes stone, glass walls, sloping roofs, and projecting canopies and rafter beams. It was donated to the City of Santa Monica by Marcellus Joslyn in 1955.”

The huge studio windows look out on palms, walkways and a huge assortment of passers by, strollers, park wanderers and beach combers. The Studio is a magical place to work.

Eighth  and Ninth Workshops, March 3/10 2018: Working on “The Big Beach Book“, participants collaged, stenciled, stamped, drew and painted on its multitude of people-sized ever evolving surfaces surfaces….

Re-purposing maps, book pages, and even glass bottles to create new stamps…our imaginative workshop participants are creatives extraordinaire.

Just FYI, the flip flops are glued to the surface, and have stayed there…making their way across the proverbial “book beach”!

 

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 1450 Ocean, Accordion Fold, Accordion Fold Book, Altered Book Pages, Art Lab, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book Cover Embellishmnet, Book Covers, Book Structures, Bookmaking, Books and Architecture, Camera Obscura, Community Arts, Exposed Spine, Life-Sized Book, Pacific Palisades Park, Painting, SANTA MONICA, Santa Monica Beach, Stamping, Stencilling, Studio Residency at Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean, Teaching Artist, The Big Beach Book

In Resonant Residence (9)

March 22, 2018 By Debra Disman

In Resonant Residence (9)

I formally began Studio Residency at the Camera Obscura Art Lab

in Santa Monica Wednesday January 10th.  I share the sunlit space, located within the beautiful Mid-century building overlooking Palisades Park, Santa Monica Beach and the blue Pacific with textile artist and fellow Studio Artist-in-Residence Huong Nguyen.
“About the Art Lab and Camera Obscura

1450 Exterior
Vintage Camera Obscura
 
 
 
 
Step inside the Camera Obscura Art Lab and you’ll find a welcoming space with fantastic views of Santa Monica Bay and the Pier. The Camera is located in a midcentury time capsule in Palisades Park between Broadway and Santa Monica Blvd on what was once the site of the Pacific Electric Railway’s North Beach Station. Designed by noted architect Weldon J. Fulton (who’s work can be found around town including the classic Camera Obscura sign and font, the Montana and Fairview branch libraries, and the former Zucky’s building on Wilshire Blvd), the building’s exterior features walls clad in chunky Palos Verdes stone, glass walls, sloping roofs, and projecting canopies and rafter beams. It was donated to the City of Santa Monica by Marcellus Joslyn in 1955.”

The huge studio windows look out on palms, walkways and a huge assortment of passers by, strollers, park wanderers and beach combers. The Studio is a magical place to work.

Eighth  and Ninth Workshops, March 3/10 2018: Working on “The Big Beach Book“, participants collaged, stenciled, stamped, drew and painted on its multitude of people-sized ever evolving surfaces surfaces….

Altering book pages…creating “black-out  poetry” and “found writing”…creating books, large and small…

847.866.8173

 

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 1450 Ocean, Accordion Fold, Accordion Fold Book, Altered Book Pages, Art Lab, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book Cover Embellishmnet, Book Covers, Book Structures, Bookmaking, Books and Architecture, Camera Obscura, Community Arts, Exposed Spine, Life-Sized Book, Pacific Palisades Park, Painting, SANTA MONICA, Santa Monica Beach, Stamping, Stencilling, Studio Residency at Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean, Teaching Artist, The Big Beach Book

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