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LACMA Education Department

LACMA Fall Art Camp: The Art of the Book

November 18, 2020 By Debra Disman

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents:

Fall Art Camp: The Art of the Book

Date/s: Monday-Wednesday, November 23, 24, and 25, 2020 

Time: 10 am-12 pm PST

Hours: 2 hours

Location: Class will be conducted on Zoom

Class Description
Create your own books using fun folding and gluing techniques! Add your own writings, drawings, photographs and more! Sketchbook, journal, album, what will YOUR book become? Each class will teach techniques for creating fun and fantastic books, and unleash your imagination! With artist Debra Disman.

Teaching Artist: Debra Disman is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in the form of the book, both
as a solo practitioner and in the public sphere of community engagement. As a maker and teaching artist she
creates work and projects which push the boundaries of the book into new forms and materials and
encourages her students to do the same while learning bookmaking skills and techniques and having FUN!

To participate in this online event, you will need internet access; a computer or tablet; and these  art-making materials. Questions? Email artclasses@lacma.org

Day 1
Accordion Fold Book with Pockets
We will look at Chris Burden’s URBAN LIGHTS sculpture!

Day 2
Folded Fan Book with Windows and Doors
We will look at Alexander Calder’s Three Quintains (Hello Girls) fountain sculpture/stabile

Day 3
Flag Book with Found Writing
We will look at Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Shafted) elevator work

Tagged With: Accordion Fold Bookmaking, Art Camp: The Art of the Book, Art Museum, Artmaking, Book as Art, Bookmaking, Create your own books, Flag Book, Folded Fan Book, Handmade Books, LACMA, LACMA ART CAMP, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Fall Art Camp, los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art of the Book

Teaching Artistry Highlights

November 17, 2020 By Debra Disman

Honored to do this work….here are Teaching Artistry Highlights.

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, Presentations, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Art Education, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Artist Residency The Granada Hills Library, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking, CCSM, Ceramics, CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, City of Los Angeles Public Library, Clay Project, Community Art Education, Community Art Projects, Community Corporation of Santa Monica, Community Teaching Artist, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Family Art programs, Granada Hills Branch Library, Handmade Books, HIGH SCHOOL VAPA STUDENTS, Jewish Women's Theatre, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, LAPL, making Books, MONTANA BRANCH LIBRARY, NoHo, NoHo Arts District, NoHo Plaza, Santa Monica Public Library, SMPL, Summer Nights at NoHoPlaza, SUNLAND-TUJUNGA BRANCH LIBRARY, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artistry, The Big Book, THE BRUCE GELLER MEMORIAL PRIZE, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, THE SHELTERING BOOK, The WORD Grant, Verdugo Hills High School, VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM (VAPA)

Making Books Together at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art!

January 19, 2020 By Debra Disman

Join us and learn to make a “folded fan” book at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

Family Art Class: Bookmaking (Ages 8+)

Learn to create a wild and wonderful folded fan book, inspired by the sketchbooks in the exhibition Betye Saar: Call and Response. Make an accordion-folded spine, add covers and pages, personalize your book with a variety of materials, and see how your fan book unfolds!

For the Whole Family!

Details:
One Day Workshop: Making Books Together Inspired by the Sketchbooks of Betye Saar!
Family Class: Ages 8+ | Saturday, February 1, 2020 | 9 am–12 pm
Family members create side-by-side or collaborate together in this inter-generational class

With teaching artist Debra Disman

Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Betye Saar, Betye Saar Exhibition, Betye SaarSketch Books, Books made by Hand, Community Artmaking, Folded Fan Books, Handmade Books, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, los Angeles County Museum of Art, Teaching Artist

Making Books Together at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art!

January 19, 2020 By Debra Disman

Join us and learn to make a “folded fan” book at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
inspired by the amazing work and colorful and evocative sketchbooks of artist Betye Saar, in her exhibition

 Betye Saar: Call and Response currently on display at the Museum.

For the Whole Family!

Details:
One Day Workshop: BOOKMAKING

Inspired by the Sketchbooks of Betye Saar!
Family Class: Ages 8+ | Saturday, February 1, 2020 | 9 am–12 pm
Family members create side-by-side or collaborate together in this inter-generational class

With teaching artist Debra Disman

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Betye Saar, Betye Saar Exhibition, Betye SaarSketch Books, Books made by Hand, Community Artmaking, Folded Fan Books, Handmade Books, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, los Angeles County Museum of Art, Teaching Artist

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

August 21, 2018 By Debra Disman

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 fun, versatile and quite kinetic structure “invented” by German-born and noted book artist Hedi Kyle.

We visited the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (“BCAM“), and looked at artist Barbara Kruger‘s monumental elevator piece, “Shafted“.

Students chose what view they wished to draw (or, sketch). then returned to the Park View Studio to look at our drawings, learn the Flag Book structure, create our books, then develop and embellish them!  (This last the reward, some might say, of the effort that went before).

Participants were encouraged to use text to develop their books, and see how this “found writing” technique could be read in different ways up and down and across their books. They had been able to observe the power of graphical text first hand viewing the Kruger piece.


Mother and daughter working together.


She came to our workshop with her grandmother…not pictured!


Summer teacher (all the way from Chicago!) and student, taking advantage of LACMA‘s educational offerings!


This wonderful duo attended all three workshops!


The grown-ups need an art-making break too!

Such a lovely group to work with.

We love you, LACMA!

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

LACMA LOVE: The Art of the Book 2: The Folded Fan Book

August 8, 2018 By Debra Disman

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 visited the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden, and viewed Chris Burden‘s master work, “Urban Light“, observed and drew perspective, “layers” and distance (“things being behind and in front of other things” ) then returned to the Park View Studio to look at our drawings, learn the “folded fan” book structure, create our books, then develop and embellish them!  (This last the reward, some might say, of the effort that went before).


Side by side…


Peer to Peer support, children AND parents!


The support team.


It’s creation time!


Dynamic duo.


Co-creative-conspirators.


Working together.


Mom as assistant!


Show and tell…she was too shy, so Dad did it!


Sharing time on the stage.

Everyone wins..such a beautiful time had by parents and children working together, side-by-side, cheering each other on.

What could be better?

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking, Chris Burden, Community Arts, Concertina fold, Family Bookmaking, Folded Fan Book, Handmade Books, LACMA, LACMA Education Department, LACMA Family Class, Museuam arts workshop, Museum Family Artmaking Classes, Rodin, The B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Urban Light

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