Interview
Six of the Best Interview Questions: Interviewed on Philip Hartigan’s PRAETERIA blog
Today I share my interview with artist and writer Philip Hartigan, a regular contributor to Hyperallergic for 7 years. on his blog,
PRAETERITA
where he talks about art, interviews other artists, and more.
“Part 42 of an interview series in which artists reply to the same six questions. Debra Disman makes sculptural objects from a combination of materials that can be read as fiber art, yet also imply book forms. Her work is a mesmerizing combination of materials, textures, and forms that are combined with exceptional skill. You can see more of her work here.”
https://philiphartiganpraeterita.blogspot.com/2022/04/six-of-best-debra-disman.html
This was fun!
Check out Philip’s work on his insta and site!
Thank you Philip!
“Unfolding Possibilities”: The Video
Sharing the video,
“Debra Disman: Unfolding Possibilities”
Jeny Amaya – filmmaker
18th Street Arts Center– host
Why We Rise: supporter
An initiative of the Los Angeles Count Department of Mental Health, Why We Rise LA took place in May 2021, supporting hundreds of Community Arts & Culture Projects which took place across all Los Angeles County neighborhoods, in partnership with more than 100 community groups, artists, grassroots leaders, healers and other LA County Departments. These projects and collaborations included mural making, ancestral healing workshops, a Countywide public literary art project, a Countywide chalk art program and more to celebrate the remarkable resources and communities in LA County and used arts-based strategies for healing and wellbeing.
I was honored to teach a workshop as part of Why We Rise LA 2021 in coordination with 18th Street Art Center’s Arts Learning Lab @ Home: called: Bookmaking with Self-Compassion.
See the “Bookmaking with Self-Compassion workshop HERE!
Nearly 70 online participants learned to create the “Flower Fold” book structure, then added embellishment, images, and words expressing their experience of the pandemic, where they are at now, what they learned, what they wanted to share, their hopes, wishes, dreams, cares , fears, realizations, trauma, expressing the full gamut of human emotions.
The range of words submitted was wide-ranging, thought-provoking and evocative….including opposite emotions and experiences and bits of truth-telling, realizations and wisdom participants seemed eager to pass on to others in other words, humanness in its multiplicity. How to put it all together?
I took the words generated by this workshop, and requested from the community at large, and stitched them into an Artists’ Book I made as a community collaboration, entitled, “Unfolding Possibilities“. (“Unfolding Possibilities – Possibilities Unfolding”).