Handmade Book

Creating the Fun and Fabulous Flag Book at the Brand!!!

July 26, 2023 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to lead a fun and fabulous flag book workshop at the Brand Library and Art Center!!!

The Associates of Brand invite you to join us in a special event workshop to learn how to create a fun and fabulous Flag Book! You will combine art, craft, bookmaking and creative writing in a paper-based project inspired by the Brand 51: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, now on view in the Gallery at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale!
Learn how to make the versatile accordion fold and combine image and text in a way that allows you to become author, artist, designer and writer in one fell swoop!
Workshop leader and Brand 51 artist Debra Disman is known for her work inspired by the book. As both maker and teaching artist, she invites you to explore the book as art by mixing media and materials to express yourself and invite new ways of viewing the world and how we inhabit it.

When: Saturday, August 12, 2023

11 am-12:30 pm

Where: Brand Library & Art Center

1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale

Who: Free and open to people of all ages

We ask that children be 6 years old and above and accompanied by an adult

How: Limited to the 25 participants

RSVP to Debra Thompson, President of the Associates by August 10

[email protected]

EXHIBITIONISTA: “In Tandem” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art

April 25, 2023 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to be participating in the exhibition, “In Tandem“, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, with artist and collaborator Luciana Abait, through our work, “drift”, a collaborative artist’ book which serves as a warning about environmental damage and ecological devastation.

For this year’s CCMoA International, Juried Exhibition, we asked artists to interpret the theme “In Tandem” in a visual work of art.
“In Tandem” may be defined as the process of 2 or more objects, mechanisms, people or concepts working in conjunction with each other to achieve a desired result.
The response was record-breaking with 283 artists from 30 states across the USA as well as from Canada, England and China submitting 424 artworks for this competition. Only 85 artworks were selected by juror. 3 of the artists will receive awards for their pieces during the Opening Reception and Gallery Talk on Friday, May 19, 2023.
In Tandem is sponsored by Bob and Cathey Portrie.

Friday, May 19, 2023
Gallery Talk with the Artists: 4pm – 5pm
Opening Reception: 5pm – 6:30pm
Free and open to the public • RSVPs appreciated!

RSVP

Flag Bookmaking at the Silverlake Independent JCC

February 20, 2023 By Debra Disman

It was a pleasure to teach a hands-on FLAG BOOKmaking workshop for fifth-graders at the Silverlake Independent JCC, my fifth year doing so! (Or is it my 6th?!)
The fifth-graders were receptive, energetic and creative!

Sharing Shows: Arizona, California, Texas

October 14, 2022 By Debra Disman

Excavation of the Interior, 2021, 12 x 28 x 12.5″ (wood, mulberry paper, hemp cord, canvas, muslin)

Chromatic Interactions: The Golden Thread, 2020, 76 x 90 x 1.5″, mixed media installation utilizing file cards written and drawn upon by Craft Contemporary Museum patrons participating in my commissioned interactive artists’ book project: Chromatic Interactions, (File cards, gold thread, pencil and crayon)

Rent Wound Tear, Mend Heal Repair, 2022, 64 x 68″ (dimensions variable), Triptych Installation, (canvas, acrylic paint, hemp cord, lace, string)

“Stagecraft with Tunnel Books” at the Compton Library

April 29, 2019 By Debra Disman

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!