Artist
Learn to create the fun and fabulous “folded fan” book in community at the Library with artist Debra Disman.
Create a book that can open, read and displayed in different ways!
This program is designed for children aged 5 – 12.
All materials included!
Join with other teens and learn to create the fun and versatile FLAG BOOK, which moves and grooves when you do! Add your own “found writing” (learn how) and have your say!
Led by artist Debra Disman.
All materials included.
Drop-ins welcome!
Part of my Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist Residency at the Granada Hills Branch – Los Angeles Public Library.
Thanks to Children’s Librarian Alice Schock, Senior Librarian Pamela Rhodes, and the LA DCA
To celebrate Latino Heritage Month, join us for a Papel Picado Bookmaking Workshop, led by artist Debra Disman. This program is open to all ages. All materials included.
Please see flier!
Part of my Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist Residency at the Granada Hills Branch – Los Angeles Public Library.
Thanks to librarian Jeffrey Jensen, Senior Librarian Pamela Rhodes, and the LA DCA.
Make an accordion fold book from images of the Latino community’s contribution to the art and architecture of Los Angeles with artist Debra Disman. This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and celebrates Latino Heritage Month.
Geared to Seniors, all are welcome!
Please see flier!
Flag Bookmaking at the Granada Hills Public Library
We will be creating the fun, versatile and kinetic flag book structure at the Public Library!
Comprised of an accordion spine, covers and “flag” pages, this easy to make, yet fantastical book can hold writing, visual art, travel treasures and ephemera and more.,
The Los Angeles Summer Reading Challenge 2018 theme is:
“Reading Takes You Everywhere”, so join us to read, make, discover and explore at the Granada Hills Branch Library.
All ages welcome, all materials provided.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)
Story Time: BedTime Story I
I am repeating a bit in this post, lingering in my Studio Residency and show of work at Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean in Santa Monica.
I showed a work titled “BedTime Story I“, featuring, or shall I say employing tiny masks; faces of clay, made by my Mother, the ceramicist Judy Disman.
My Mom had made these tiny faces of clay expressly for me to use in and on my artists’ books, even making tiny holes in them so they could be sewed into and onto the book structures and become integral to them.
The faces were a natural for a piece about “bed”, and made the book into a more literal narrative then I had originally intended. I work fairly abstractly, though still in a loose book format, and the addition of representational elements changed the feeling of the piece. It could then be “read” more literally.
The faces even became interactive, with two of them contemplating each other.
Others became sentinels, gazing benevolently out from their “beds”.
Far from creating an image of sleep, the faces express the experience of being wide awake, perhaps listening to, creating, or becoming a story. A bed time story.
The faces become the actors in the story, played out through the pages of the book. Each viewer will read the story in their own way, and reach their own conclusions about it.
We may wonder what the beings or characters expressed or indicated by the faces are thinking, and if they are having sleepless nights. Perhaps they are worried under their smiling visages. Perhaps they are presenting to us a mask, and there are dreams and roiling emotions, even nightmares, underneath.
Perhaps formal, textural, decorative, haptic or totemic qualities of the work will prevail for some. In any event, BedTime Story I was a pleasure to make.
Again, Mom, thank you for the collaboration, and for creating these tiny pieces for me.
It was great to work with you. Sweet dreams.