Artist
All supplies will be provided.
Para ajustes razonables según la ley de ADA, llama al (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.
Participants learned the accordion fold technique, and how to attach a background/backdrop sheet, and connective strips to create their books, reminiscent of a diorama, or stage. They then went to down developing their stories or scenes, learning a bit of pop-up magic in the process.
One motivated participant motivated by opera remade her book after the program, and emailed these images to share with us!
We look forward to more inspiring, educational, creative and FUN online bookmaking programs presented through the Panorama City Branch Library!
The Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles supports this artist in residence program:
Email bgallego@lapl.org for the Zoom meeting link. The link will be emailed to participants the morning of the program.
Para ajustes razonables según la ley de ADA, llama al (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.
Join us for a Tunnel Bookmaking program, and learn to create a story in three dimensions!
Supplies packets available for the first 20 participants who sign up and pick up!
Please see information on flier, and contact the West Walley Regional Branch Library to sign up today!
It was fantastic to teach a workshop on Tunnel Books for families, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Tunnel Book is comprised of two accordion spines, or “sides”, connected by a “backdrop” and “cross pieces” or frames attached to the accordion folds working from the back fold and moving forward in space.
The mise-en-scène is then created through the addition of images/shapes/materials attached to the crosspieces and creating actual depth of space between them.
Students of all ages employed tremendous imagination and creativity as they “tunneled through” the process of making, adding pop-ups, folds, “doors” and even a “floor” to their works.
The work of our hands…
Tunnel Book “doors” employ illusionistic effects as the image transforms when they are opened.
Heart “balloons” floating up into the “sky”…
A work depicting the perfect day…with drawings of the Calder works in the Directors Roundtable Garden in front…
The artist wants the viewer to finish the sentence!
Happiness, happiness…
One really feels like one is entering a theatrical space here…
This young maker worked very hard to design this piece so that the images moving back in space made sense on all fronts…BRAVO!
And what is inside this book? The structure in front of it is a home for the five-year-old maker’s new pet ladybug!
ROAR!
Art, Theatre, Life and Literature… come together, at our beloved LACMA!
Learn to create the amazing “Tunnel Book”, create your own theatre, and learn that “all the world’s a stage”!
Join us for this special Summer Reading program and discover the artist, stage set designer, illustrator, and dramatist within.
All materials included.