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Celebrating Día de Muertos with Papel Picado!

October 29, 2021

In celebration of  Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I led a bookmaking workshop that featured Papel Picado (The art and craft of decorative cut paper) as part of my artist residency in bookmaking  at the the Panorama City Branch Library, supported by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural … [Read more...] about Celebrating Día de Muertos with Papel Picado!

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Presentations, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: "We Write The Book", Accordion Binding, Accordion Book, Accordion Fold, Accordion Fold Book, AIR Program, All purpose book!, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking online, Books made by Hand, Branch Libraries, CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, Día de Muertos, Fall Holidays, Handmade Books, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, latin American Folk Arts, Library Programs, Los Angeles Public Library System, Make Your Own Journal, Making Art through Zoom, Mexican Folk Arts, Online Art programs, Online Art Workshops, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online bookmaking workshops, Online Library Programs, Panorama City Branch Library, Papel Picado, paper Cits, Paper Cutting, Paper Engineering, The Art of paper Cutting, Zoom

Tunneling Through: Tunnel Bookmaking with the Panorama City Branch Library!

October 5, 2021

Through my Artist Residency with the Los Angles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence   I had the opportunity to offer an online program/workshop via the Panorama Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library in which participants learned how to make "Tunnel Books", and thus how to … [Read more...] about Tunneling Through: Tunnel Bookmaking with the Panorama City Branch Library!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: AIR Program, All purpose book!, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking online, Books made by Hand, Branch Libraries, Handmade Books, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, Library Programs, Los Angeles Public Library System, Make Your Own Journal, Online Art programs, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online Library Programs, Panorama City Branch Library, Paper Engineering, Pop-Up, Pop-up Books, POP-UPS, Theater Books, Theatrical Books, Three-d story, Three-dimensional Story, Tunnel Bookmaking, Tunnel Books

We Invited the Community to “Make Your Own Journal” at the Panorama City Branch Library, And They Did!

September 28, 2021

Through my Artist Residency with the Los Angles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence   I had the opportunity to offer a program/workshop via the Panorama Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library in which participants created  “single signature” bound books they could use for … [Read more...] about We Invited the Community to “Make Your Own Journal” at the Panorama City Branch Library, And They Did!

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: AIR Program, All purpose book!, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking online, Books made by Hand, Branch Libraries, Handmade Books, Handmade Journal, Journal, Journal-making, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, Library Programs, Los Angeles Public Library System, Make Your Own Journal, Online Art programs, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online Library Programs, Panorama City Branch Library, Sewn Books, SINGLE SIGNATURE, Single Signature Books

“Make Your Own Journal” at the Panorama City Branch Library!

August 31, 2021

Join us and start the school year of by learning how to make your very own handbound journal! Los Angles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Debra Disman will lead you in creating  a "single signature" bound book that you can use for writing, drawing, note-keeping, poetry, homework, … [Read more...] about “Make Your Own Journal” at the Panorama City Branch Library!

Tagged With: Accordion Fold Book, AIR Program, All purpose book!, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ARTIST'S BOOKS, Bookmaking online, Books made by Hand, Branch Libraries, Handmade Books, Journal, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LAPL, Library Programs, Los Angeles Public Library System, Make Your Own Journal, Online Art programs, Online Bookmaking Programs, Online Library Programs, Panorama City Branch Library, Sewn Books, SINGLE SIGNATURE, Single Signature Books

Felt, Fabric, Feathers, FUN: Celebrating Women Artists at the Will and Ariel Durant Branch Library

March 27, 2019

I was thrilled to lead an artmaking program at the Will and Ariel Durant Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library System to celebrate Women's History Month, specifically Women Artists! Inspired by the artist Faith Ringgold's "Story Quilts", participants including children, adults and … [Read more...] about Felt, Fabric, Feathers, FUN: Celebrating Women Artists at the Will and Ariel Durant Branch Library

Filed Under: Artists' Books, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Cloth, Community Artmaking, Fabric, Fabric Collage, Faith Ringgold, FAMILY ARTMAKING, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Granada Hills Public Library, LAPL, Library Arts Programming, Library Programs, Liza Lou, Los Angeles Public Library, Making Art at the Public Library, Story Quilt, Story Quilts, Textile Collage, Textiles, Will and Ariel Durant Branch Library, Women Artists, Women's history month, Yayoi Kusama

Latinx Heritage Celebrated

October 12, 2018

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, … [Read more...] about Latinx Heritage Celebrated

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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