Join us for a fun-filled recipe bookmaking program, and create a place to preserve treasured family recipes and new ones too!
Books with Pockets
Make Your Own Book at the Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library!
Join us and the Wide Open Reading group at the Sunland-Tujunga Library and learn to bind together your own book you can use as a journal, sketchbook, diary, dream catcher or idea book!
Learn what signatures are in bookbinding, and how they become book pages.
Create your book, then design, embellish, decorate and personalize your cover for inspiration
All materials provided.
All ages welcome. Bring the family and create together!
This program is part of my Artist Residency at the Sunland-Tujunga Public Library and is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department Cultural Affairs.
Making Accordion Fold Books with Pockets at the Sunland-Tujunga Library
Learn to create an accordion fold book with pockets that can be used to hold your treasures: photographs, notes, poems, recipes, and more! Start off the New Year with creativity and new skills, and make something fun, beautiful and useful!
This program is part of my Artist Residency at the Sunland-Tujunga Public Library and is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department Cultural Affairs.
All ages welcome. Bring the family and create together!
All materials provided.
In Resonant Residence (11)
In Resonant Residence (11)
I formally began Studio Residency at the Camera Obscura Art Lab
in Santa Monica Wednesday January 10th, and completed it Saturday, April 21, 2018. I shared the sunlit space, located within a 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
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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.
My tenth workshop, March 17, 2018: Accordion Fold Book + Pockets, found participants folding, cutting and collaging, using a myriad of materials,
including drawing papers, decorative papers, ribbon, maps, washi tape, hole punchers, and more.
“Thank you” ribbons flow from a maker’s “twin” books, made for her grandchildren.
Hearts, and a muted but warm color scheme complete the feeling.
Pockets allow room for secrets, notes, treasures and surprises.
This maker used patterned paper to powerful effect.
The structure has a simple elegance when treated in a streamlined way.
Two ways of handling pattern.
In an exciting turn, this maker brought in collages she had made while visiting her sister, and made them the theme and focus of her book,
adding ribbons that punctuated the patterns created by her artistry.
A deeply gratifying experience indeed.
For all involved…
Double Flower Fold Book with Debra Disman
Double Flower Fold Book with Debra Disman
Learn how to create a long or short book that utilizes repeated folded forms based that flattens into a single square. Add covers and a tie/ribbon, and embellish with all manner of materials. Also called an Exploding Book, this structure is perfect for treasured words: poems, love notes, fortunes and more.