Artist
LACMA Workshop at the Valley Plaza Branch Library in North Hollywood
“Santa Monica Eats” Bookmaking Program at the Santa Monica Public Library!
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-458-8600
Join us for a wonderful event at the The SMPL Main Library and create your own book to hold your treasured recipes!
Make an accordion fold book with pockets to keep your favorite recipes in! Adorn your useful and beautiful book with decorative papers, textures, ribbons and pop-ups you cut yourself right in the folds of your book!
FREE
Summer Nights at NoHo Plaza (People St.)
Saturdays, August 5, 12, 19, 26 | 6–9 pm
During the month of August, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will be in the NoHo Arts District on Saturday nights from 6–9 pm! Stop by NoHo Plaza for art projects connected with LACMA’s collection and exhibitions and enjoy a live DJ set.
Join us for a fun and versatile project: the flower-fold book! Also called an exploding book due to its jutting geometric structure, the flower-fold book opens into a dynamic and magical art piece. Inspired by artists who embrace geometry from LACMA’s collection.
Chromatic Interactions II
“CHAPTERS: Book Arts in Southern California” presented at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in LA.
I was commissioned to create an interactive book.
I created “Chromatic Interactions”
Chromatic Interactions is a flag book is comprised of an accordion spine, front and back covers, and flag pages which are pockets with windows cut out of them to reveal both front and back of the cards that visitor participants wrote and drew on, then inserted into the pockets.
It was eye-opening to see how people responded, what they wrote and drew, and how the book transformed over time.
I am exploring this phenom through a series of posts, now that the show is over. The CAFAM was kind enough to save and give to me many of the file cards added to the book by the participants who interacted with the piece…keeping it in a continual state of transformation.
The front and back covers had windows cut out of them that correlated with the windows cut out of the flag pocket pages.
Someone had to remove the cards so that new ones could be inserted. I am still not sure if this was the Museum staff, or the patron participants themselves.
Here is some of what they wrote….
“STRIKE while the iron is hot”
“Speak Out
Stay Calm
Carry On”
“How can we stop the political train wreck?”
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. *activism….”
“people say don’t hate anything except for hatred”
This one “speaks” for itself.
Actually, they all do.
People
Speak
Out
Chromatic Interactions I
“CHAPTERS: Book Arts in Southern California” presented at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in LA.
I was commissioned to create an interactive book.
I created “Chromatic Interactions”
It was eye-opening for me to see what people wrote and drew, and how the piece changed over time.
I will be exploring this through a series of posts, now that the show is over, and CAFAM was kind enough to save and give to me many of the file cards added to the book by patrons/visitors/participants…interacting.
Flag book. Stitched flag pockets with windows cut into them.
Accordion spine.
A focus on file folders.
Flag pocket and cover windows align, allowing messages to show through, and creating a tunnel effect.
Color, line, word, image, added by the viewer, become participatory art making and collaborator.
Book board.
Found file folders crumpled to create surface texture.
Here is some of what Museum visitor participants wrote…
TIME
“…all slow…”
After the US election.
Did they mean “irrelevant” No???
“There once was…”
Packing it in.
Successful life…validation
“Beautiful
I’m blinded by the light.”
“Mosaic” flower
Wilder tale
E X T R A P O L A T E
So glad, Inez!
Full…
And fuller.
More
To
Come
WORKSHOP: SCROLL AWAY WITH DEBRA DISMAN
Intergenerational Art Making at The Fowler Museum of UCLA
308 Charles E Young Dr N,
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 825-4361
The exhibition How to Make the Universe Right features large scroll paintings from Vietnam and China. Take in these magnificent art works and be inspired to create your very own scroll painting with marbled paper.
This is a drop-in workshop for all ages.
No registration required and all materials provided.
Parking available in UCLA Lot 4, 221 Westwood Plaza off Sunset Blvd
$3/hr or max $12/day