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THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Learning Online: Making a Rainbow

July 7, 2020 By Debra Disman

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:

Learn a colorful technique and create a Rainbow Book Ball, Rainbow Arm Band and Rainbow Collage

In Honor of LGBTQ Pride Month: June

Explore, learn, play, enjoy  All Things Rainbow!

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Learning Online: “We Write The Book”

July 7, 2020 By Debra Disman

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.

To celebrate our Residency Project, “We Write the Book“, I created a tour through our process and projects which you can view in the videos below.

Maybe you will be inspired to make your own book too!

Explore, learn, play, enjoy!

https://debradisman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CULMINATION_1_NOvids.mp4

Take a tour through the book projects taught in our “We Write the Book” Residency!

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Books you can make yourself, Celebrate bookmaking!, CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, Community Arts, Community Celebration!, Culmination Event, Distance learning, Family Bookmaking, Flag Book, Granada Hills Branch Library, Handmade Books, LAPL, Online learning, Public Event, Teaching Artist, THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Learning Online: Storybook Theater

July 7, 2020 By Debra Disman

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:

Learn How To Make A “Storybook Theater”!

Combine books, stories and theater into one really fun project, and learn folding, cutting, gluing and collaging skills along the way!

Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the month of May,  by creating stories and plays drawn from richness of these cultures!

Explore, learn, play, enjoy!

 

Filed Under: Artist in Residence, Artists' Books, BOOKS, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Asian Pacific Heritage, Asian/Pacific Heritage Month, 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, LAPL, Online learning, Storybook Theater, Teaching Artist, THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Learning Online: Poetry Flag Book

July 7, 2020 By Debra Disman

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 Book

In Honor of NATIONAL POETRY MONTH – The Month of April!

Explore, learn, play, enjoy!

https://debradisman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Book-Flag-Video-2.mp4

How to create the Flag Book Step by Step:

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

Learning Online: Journal-Making and Haiku Poetry!

July 7, 2020 By Debra Disman

 

 

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:

Journal-making and Haiku Poetry.

Explore, learn, play, enjoy!

https://debradisman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AIR-DCA-GHPL_-wksp8-Journal-Tatiana-GHPL-VIDEO.mp4

Step by step: how to create your own blank journal:

Filed Under: Artists' Books, BOOKS, Teaching Artist Tagged With: Bookmaking, CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, Community Arts, Distance learning, Family Bookmaking, Granada Hills Branch Library, Haiku Poetry, Handmade Books, Journal-making, Journals, LAPL, Online learning, Teaching Artist, THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

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!

 

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