Artist
We will create an amazing multidimensional TUNNEL BOOK using a three-dimensional tableau scene to honor Native American Heritage Month! Utilizing strategic cutouts, accordion folding and framing techniques, explore a “layered view” that creates the setting for a dramatic scene and story that moves back and forth in space and possibly in time!
Free and open to the public.
Open to all ages.
All materials included.
I will lead bookmaking workshops with Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) English and Art students at Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, CA, supported by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Students will create one-of-kind BOOKS by hand, and develop them with print and visual media to create unique works of writing, visual art and craft.
I will work with Seniors in the VAPA English class, and Freshmen in the VAPA art class.
These workshops are for specific VAPA students at Verdugo Hills High School, and will take place in VAPA classes during school hours.
I will lead bookmaking workshops with magnet (VAPA) English and Art students at Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, CA, supported by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Students will create one-of-kind FLAG BOOKS, and develop them through “found writing” they produce through pulling letters, words and sentences from existing print media sources such as magazines and other books.
I will work with Seniors in the VAPA English class, and Freshmen in the VAPA art class.
These workshops are for specific VAPA students at Verdugo Hills High School, and will take place in VAPA classes during school hours.
In our recent program at the Granada Hills Branch Library of the LAPL, participants created accordion fold (also known as “concertina”…continuing with the musical instrument metaphor-) books.
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, they added images of Latinx art and architecture, including murals, street art, works shown in museums, and storefronts.
Participants spanned young children to seniors, with everyone becoming immediately absorbed in creating their books, and developing them with varied fascinating and colorful images of works created by an integral population of Los Angeles past, present and future.
The Virgin of Guadalupe was an inspiration.
Mother and son work together.
Participants transformed images by adding to and subtracting from them, and putting them together in new ways.
The focus of all ages…
Makers often choose to work with colors that reflect the colors they are wearing!
Pink, never gets old.
This workshop was part of my Artist in Residency project: “We Write the Book“, supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles. Gratitudes!
In our recent program at the Granada Hills Branch Library of the LAPL, 23 participants created “folded fan” books, comprised of an accordion spine, front and back covers, and fan pages. In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, they added their own “Picado Papel“, decoratively cut and punched papers, which added a special touch to their creations.
Families turned out, and parents worked closely with children to achieve their artistic visions! Especially heartwarming was the number of Dads who devoted themselves to supporting their sons and daughters through the process, while creating beautiful works themselves. And let’s not forget the Moms! It is wonderful to see adults give themselves over to the creative process. Parents, and all people, so need this time.
This workshop was part of my artist residency project: “We Write the Book“, supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles. Gratitudes!
Children’s Librarian extraordinaire, Alice Schock, engages with a young patron, artist and participant.
Like Mother, like Daughter…
The work of our hands…and creative ways of using shaped hole punchers to create Picado Papel!
Sisters and friends work together.
This young teen, age 13, took off with a Halloween theme.
Through careful work, discerning choices, and elegant handicraft, she designed a book that we hope she will keep forever!
This young maker transformed images of a noted Los Angeles mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and used the beautiful colors as a surface to create a repeated design with a butterfly-shaped hole puncher.
Piper and her Dad attended an earlier workshop, and were back again creating happily together.
Father and daughter work closely on her book. her Mom said that though she herself loves scrapbooking, she could never get Dad to do it. Now, maybe he might, after seeing how much fun cutting, pasting and arranging are!
Here is Mom at work on her own masterpiece, along with older daughter.
Sebastian and his Dad work side by side. spending precious time together.
Yellow blossoms drift across a luminous pink ground, floating in a world of warm colors. Washi tape is used to good effect as a framing device on the covers.
Benny and Mom have fun. Who says one has to sit on chairs?
These two friends had a blast, and worked with very different color schemes in their projects.
This is Greer’s second workshop. She loves to work with her hands, and even contributed some extra Washi tape to the cause!
Our scrapbooking Mom works on a mini-masterpiece. What patience it takes to punch out all those butterflies, then arrange and glue them to the cover!
But how worth is it was…here is her magnum opus…a treat for the eyes, heart and soul.
Thank You All.
“Prairie”, 2018
Inspired, I guess, by the Midwest landscape I was raised in…once all prairie lands, now leafy and not so leafy suburbs reaching to Chicago.
I began the piece, then realized what it was about, as pure a way of working as I can think of at this moment.
The color.
Illinois.
The Chicago suburbs.
Iowa.
Iowa City.
The fields.
The rolling hills.
The endless vistas with no water to speak of.
The place.
Texture.
The texture of a place.
Book board covers. Covers covered in torn strips of tissue paper.
Accordion-fold watercolor paper spine, covered with the same.
Jute cord sewn, stitched and falling.
Board pages become landscape.
Cover stitching.
Spine and page stitching.
Falling cord…
Other side.
“Prairie”, 2018
Book board, board, watercolor paper, tissue paper, jute cord