Debra Disman

Artist

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Handmade Books

Fireworks Book with Debra Disman

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Fireworks Book with Debra Disman

 

Join us for public workshops in bookmaking and more at the Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica!

These workshops are being offered as part of my Studio Residency at the Art Lab, January 13-April 14, 2018! I will be creating and teaching in the beautiful Mid-century building that houses the Art Lab, overlooking Santa Monica Beach and the blue Pacific.

Construct an extending pop-up book of repeated forms that grows from all sides as it unfolds. As you lift the book, pages pop out from the sides to explosively grand effect in a colorful display of pattern and shape.

“We Right The Book” VI

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“We Right The Book” VI

I was honored to serve as Artist in Residence at Verdugo Hill High School in Tujunga,  CA (Los Angeles) for a group of 41 Senior English class Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) students.

Our project ,  “We Right the Book” was supported by an Artist in Residence grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.  I worked with the students on a series of bookmaking projects during weekly workshops held right in the classroom from September – December, 2017.

The students’ completed book works were exhibited at the Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library on December 13, 2017.
Accordion fold books, flag books, tunnel books, scrolls, and side bound books…the results were stunning.
Below is a digital tour through the show.

Each student’s works were displayed together, except the scrolls, which were hung on the walls.

Students created extraordinary Tunnel Books with whimsical, innovative and imaginative use of materials.

They made Flag Books…with “Found” (collected from existing print media) Writing.

and Accordion Fold Books…

with elaborate pop-ups.

The students completed their final projects for the class in their side bound books…the theme: IDENTITY…Who they are…Where they want to go…How they see themselves.

A Junior VAPA English student peruses the side bound books. She looked at each and every one.

I would love to work with her next year!

Fingers Crossed for next year’s Residency!
Thank you, LA DCA.

Flag Books & Found Writing with Debra Disman

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Join us for public workshops in bookmaking and more at the Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica!

These workshops are being offered as part of my Studio Residency at the Art Lab, January 13-April 14, 2018. I will be creating and teaching in the beautiful Mid-century building that houses the Art Lab, overlooking Santa Monica Beach and the blue Pacific.

Learn the fun and innovative flag book structure.
Fold an accordion spine, add book covers, and attach your flag pages to a kinetic book whose parts move as you page through.
You can write in or use preexisting print media to add text to your flags. As they move and flip, poetic connections in your found writing appear!

 

“We Right the Book” An Exhibit of Handmade Books

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Join Us To Celebrate The Creative Book Works of Verdugo Hills High School VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) Students Led By Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman.

Readings and presentations at 6PM.
Refreshments will be served in the Community Room!

“Learn How To Make Your Own Book”

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Please join us for a fun program teaching children and tweens how to make their own kinetic, innovative and versatile flag books! Led by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist-in- Residence at Verdugo Hills High School Debra Disman, and assisted by bookmaking students from Verdugo Hills High School.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

 

 

LACMA Workshop at the Valley Plaza Branch Library in North Hollywood

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Join LACMA / The Los Angeles County Museum of Art at the Valley Plaza Library in North Hollywood and learn to create an accordion book with pockets, adding marbled papers you make yourself! Explore connections to works at LACMA that move through space in a kinetic or static way.

A fun workshop for the whole family!

 

Valley Plaza Public Library/Los Angeles Public Library

12311 Vanowen Street
North Hollywood, CA 91605 United States