Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman will instruct patrons in how to make a rainbow book in celebration of LGBTQ Heritage Month. Everyone is welcome to attend this culmination event where everyone who attended a previous bookmaking program can share their creations. Refreshments will be served. This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Books made by Hand
Community Bookmaking Workshop at the Brentwood Art Center!
Join us to create the fun, innovative and versatile flag book structure and learn “found writing” techniques to take the anxiety out of the writing process.
Learn to fold an accordion spine, attach covers, and add multiple flag book pages which create a pattern and move and groove when the book is opened and shut. Discover the artist, writer, designer and collagist within and learn essential bookmaking skills at the same time.
Open to all ages. Children under six should be accompanied by an adult. Register now!
Tunnel Vision
It was fantastic to teach a workshop on Tunnel Books for families, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Tunnel Book is comprised of two accordion spines, or “sides”, connected by a “backdrop” and “cross pieces” or frames attached to the accordion folds working from the back fold and moving forward in space.
The mise-en-scène is then created through the addition of images/shapes/materials attached to the crosspieces and creating actual depth of space between them.
Students of all ages employed tremendous imagination and creativity as they “tunneled through” the process of making, adding pop-ups, folds, “doors” and even a “floor” to their works.
The work of our hands…
Tunnel Book “doors” employ illusionistic effects as the image transforms when they are opened.
Heart “balloons” floating up into the “sky”…
A work depicting the perfect day…with drawings of the Calder works in the Directors Roundtable Garden in front…
The artist wants the viewer to finish the sentence!
Happiness, happiness…
One really feels like one is entering a theatrical space here…
This young maker worked very hard to design this piece so that the images moving back in space made sense on all fronts…BRAVO!
And what is inside this book? The structure in front of it is a home for the five-year-old maker’s new pet ladybug!
ROAR!
Art, Theatre, Life and Literature… come together, at our beloved LACMA!
Scroll-making and Paper Marbling Workshop atthe Granada Hills Library!
Join us for an extraordinary scroll-making and paper marbling workshop in honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month!
Everyone is welcome!
All materials provided, just bring yourself, your creativity, and friends and family!
This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
“Stagecraft with Tunnel Books” at the Compton Library
Learn to create the amazing “Tunnel Book”, create your own theatre, and learn that “all the world’s a stage”!
Join us for this special Summer Reading program and discover the artist, stage set designer, illustrator, and dramatist within.
All materials included.
“Let’s Make Books” at the Maywood Cesar Chavez Library!
Join us and learn to create the fun and fabulous FLAG book!
Play with putting word and image together while learning bookmaking, visual art and craft skills.
All materials included.