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Hedi Kyle

Learning Online: Poetry Flag Book

July 7, 2020

I have been honored to serve as Artist in Residence at the Granada Hills Branch Library, supported by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. In concert with the Library Staff I created several online bookmaking workshop presentations, including, below: How to Make a Poetry Flag … [Read more...] about Learning Online: Poetry Flag Book

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Bookmaking, Books you can make yourself, CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, Community Arts, Distance learning, Family Bookmaking, Flag Book, Granada Hills Branch Library, Handmade Books, Hedi Kyle, Journals, LAPL, National Poetry Month, Online learning, Teaching Artist, THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Friday Bookmakers Inspiration! We Stand (Sit?!) Together, Making Books! (9)

May 18, 2020

I  have been honored to work with a wonderful group of “older adults” at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, offering a series of workshops teaching bookmaking techniques, and providing a forum for creativity, imagination, sharing and story. The remainder of our series, “Crafting … [Read more...] about Friday Bookmakers Inspiration! We Stand (Sit?!) Together, Making Books! (9)

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Aroha Foundation, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Blizzard Book, Bookmaking, Bookmaking At Home, Bookmaking Workshops, BOOKS and THEIR ARTIST, Craft, Craft Contemporary, Craft Contemporary Museum, Crafting at Home, Crafting Our Stories By Hand, Handmade Books, Hedi Kyle, Los Angeles County Public Library System, Making Books at Home, Making Books By Hand, Mark Bradford, Older Adults, Older Adults Making Books, Panorama Book, Seniors, The Art of the Fold, Ulla Warchol

FORMATION at UCLA: The Artists (4)

May 9, 2019

“FORMATION”: The Guild of Book Workers 2018-2019 Traveling Juried Exhibition is currently showing at UCLA! University of California, Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery Los Angeles, CA March 15–May 25, 2019 “Simply defined by Merriam Webster as “an act of giving form … [Read more...] about FORMATION at UCLA: The Artists (4)

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, Exhibitions, Work Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Books as Art, Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery, Debra Disman, Eva Hesse, Exhibition, FORMATION, FORMATION TRAVELLING SHOW, FORMATION: Guild of Bookworkers Traveling Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Group Show, Handmade Books, Hedi Kyle, Karen Schiff, Los Angeles, Mixed media, Sculptural Books, Show, The Guild of Book Workers, The Guild of Bookworkers Travelling Juried Show, UCLA

LACMA LOVE: The Art of the Book 3: The Flag Book

August 21, 2018

We started off our Family Bookmaking Workshop series at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the Accordion Fold Book, then moved onto “The Folded Fan” book (my own nomenclature)  which also employed the accordion/concertina fold to great effect. We completed our series with The Flag Book, a … [Read more...] about LACMA LOVE: The Art of the Book 3: The Flag Book

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Art in the elevator, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Barbara Kruger, BCAM, Bookmaking, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Community Arts, Concertina fold, Family Bookmaking, Flag Book, Found Writing, Handmade Books, Hedi Kyle, hedy Kyle, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, Muesuem art classes, Museuam arts workshop, SHAFTED, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

In Resonant Residence (14)

May 9, 2018

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 … [Read more...] about In Resonant Residence (14)

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: 1450 Ocean, Accordion Fold, ACCORDION SPINE, Art Lab, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Book Structures, Bookmaking, Books and Architecture, Camera Obscura, Community Arts, Concertina Spine, Fan Book, Flag Book, Folded Books, Folded Fan Book, Hedi Kyle, Pacific Palisades Park, SANTA MONICA, Santa Monica Beach, Sculptural Books, Stamping, Studio Residency at Camera Obscura Art Lab at 1450 Ocean, Teaching Artist

Library Love II

April 28, 2018

Library Love II Leading a “folded fan” bookmaking program at the Granada Hills Library, one of the Branches of the Los Angeles City Library System was pure joy The Flag Book was invented by noted book artist Hedi Kyle, and is a great deal of fun to make, develop and … [Read more...] about Library Love II

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ACCORDION SPINE, Art Education, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, Children's Art, City of Los Angeles Public Library, Community Arts, Concertina Spine, Family Bookmaking, Flag Book, Granada Hills Library, Handmade Books, Hedi Kyle, Public Library, Teaching Artist

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