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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at the Canoga Park Branch Library with Papel Picado!

August 20, 2023 By Debra Disman

Join Us to Honor and Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by learning to create a folded and glued book, and add to it with “Papel Picado”, the art of cut paper!

All materials included!

Tagged With: "We Write The Book", Accordion Fold, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Artist Residency, Bookmaking, Books made by Hand, Canoga Park Library, Community Artmaking, COMMUNITY BOOKMAKING, Culmination, Cut paper, DCA, Families, FAMILY ARTMAKING, folded and glued book, folded book, Folded Fan Book, Get Ready for Fall!, Hands on bookmaking, Hispanic heritage Month, Holly Rutan, LA DCA, LAPL, LAPL Summer Reading, Latino, Latinx, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Public Library, Luz Sandoval, Making Books Together, Marcia Melkonian, Papel Picado, Patricia Miranda

Latinx Heritage Celebrated

October 12, 2018 By Debra Disman

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!

 

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Accodion Fold, Accordion Fold, ACCORDION FOLD BOOKS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Artist Residency, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking Workshops, Books made by Hand, Community Artmaking, Concertina fold, Concertina Fold Books, Granada Hills Public Library, Handmade Books, Hispanic heritage Month, Latina, Latino, Latinx, Library Programs, National Hispanic Heritage Month, Public programs, The Los ANgeles Department of Cultural Affairs, THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

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