Artist
“Join us for a bookmaking program led by Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Debra Disman. Learn to make the fun and fantastic flag book that opens in different ways to show the words and pictures you put inside. As you open the book the flags move and create a pattern! All materials included.”
For Ages 10-18.
This event is part of my artist residency through the Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of Los Angeles..
Join us, and see the Library has to offer!
Join us for a workshop for children and families to create their own “folded fan” books using accordion, pop-up and Papel Picado techniques!
All ages are welcome. Come join the fun!
This workshop is part of my Department of Cultural Affairs Artist Residency at the Sunland-Tujunga Public Library, 2019-2020 and is made possible in part by a grant form the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Teaching community workshop in June on Flag Books and Found Text at the Brentwood Art Center was pure joy!
“Fun with Flag (pages)” was had by all.
Adults and children alike created marvelous flag book creations and had a blast in the process!
Participants learned to fold an accordion spine, add covers, and attach the flag pages on alternating sides of the spine to create a pattern that changed as the book was opened.
After the flag book was “built” (books and buildings have a lot in common…but that is a subject for another post…)
the real (well, that depends on your definition) fun began…filling, embellishing and developing the book!
Participants used images and text from magazines,
expressing their interests, thoughts, and ideas…
choosing what they wanted to express
with the materials at hand.
Some chose to draw by hand.
Some laid forth their content using repeated elements, like a graphic designer.
Others asked questions.
And some put it all together thematically.
All in all, a most remarkable experience.
Bravo!
Join us to create fun, personal, handmade books! Learn glued, folded, and rolled book-making techniques, as well as how to use color, texture, pattern, design, and composition to make your books unique. Families can create books together, work on individual projects, or both! Led by artist Debra Disman.
Five Saturdays: April 6, 13, 27, May 4, and 11
Children and families, join us to learn how to make the “Fireworks” book that expands as it unfolds. To honor African-American History Month we will develop our books with images of barrier-breaking members of this community who created their own brand of fireworks and changed our country, our culture, and our world.
All materials included!
This program is made possible by an Artist in Residence grant The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
In Resonant Residence (14)
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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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 thirteenth workshop, April 7, 2018, Creating Sculptural Books offered participants an opportunity to walk a bit on the wilder side, and create something new while learning some skills in the process.
We began by constructing what I call the “fan book” structure…an accordion folded spine, with front and back covers, and pages added to the same side of each fold.
It is a version of the flag book, invented by renowned book artist Hedi Kyle, but employs full-sized pages that fan out from the spine in the same direction, rather then the zig zig alternating pattern of the endlessly inventive flag book.
Then folks added to that structure, used it as a jumping off point if you will.
Others focused more specifically on embellishment…this was the way “in” for them.
Book artist Rachel Curry made a big “traditional” flag book, and adorned it with patterns using paint pens.
Step-by-step into new territory, in a safe space.
Ingredients for discovery.
