LACMA in NoHo IV
Making Double Flower-Fold “Exploding Books”!
On-Site: Neighborhood partnerships with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art!
LACMA (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art) began its partnership with North Hollywood in August 2016 with Summer Nights, free art workshops for the community at the NoHo Plaza in the Arts District. This year in August 2017, we continue the tradition!
Participants learned to create the flower-fold book! Also called an exploding book due to its jutting geometric structure, the flower-fold book opens into a dynamic and magical art piece. Our project was inspired by artists who embrace geometry from LACMA’s collection, such as Jay DeFeo‘s “The Jewel“,
Hearts and hands…
in the making.
Our friends are back….friends with a long history of making.
Lorenzo, MFA student at Otis College of Art and Design offers instruction to participants.
This family is back again for another project!
Flowers, friends, focus.
Beautiful family of talented ladies…daughters made hats as well as
utterly charming flower books.
Cece, a fashion design student, works intently on her book.
The wonderful Karen Satzman, Director of Youth and Family programs at LACMA chats about the NoHo outreach program with devoted participants.
This young maker worked on her book until we folded up the tables! She committed completely to the project, and can complete it at home.
It was fitting to wind up our August of artmaking in NoHo with the “exploding book” project.
Hopefully the this LACMA program enabled participants to ignite their creativity, and fueled by their imaginations, blast-off into the inner space and outer realms of their creativity!
Creating in community. Participants cut up magazine text and imagery to use on their scrolls.
Mom helps daughter, while son works away nearby.
These frineds have attended every workshop. They have a long history of making.
Pink rules…
“In the Pink”!
A fun date night…
The scroll proivides ample surface to explore text and image,
and lots of texture, color, shapes and forms.
Elle is a consumate maker, and loves to join in community artmaking activities.
Working vertically.
Pink, and pink!
Pink, close-up.
Incredible work with texture, torn edges, and a goth sensibility.
Welcoming the New Year…
with her scroll…a cornucopia of bounty!
Working in community…
adults and children alike,
creating the work of our/their hands…
in “material heaven!
Friends,
and family
and sole practitioners, came together to celebrate their creative spirits.
is Fall in the air? orange was a big color theme…
adorning this box-work from beginning
to completion,
inside,
and out.
There was lots of laughter,
and contemplation,
smiles,
and complete immersion.
Setting up. Team member arrive at 4pm to make the “People Street” of NoHo Plaza ready for our accordion bookmaking workshop.
About 90 artmakers attend during the course of the evening, from 6 – 9 pm.
Whole families got into the act (of artmaking)
Some innovative artists took the materials at hand and created something entirely new, as
Mothers and daughters spent hours…
while others worked hard on collage.
Stories were told, and
the completed books exceeded the sum of their parts…
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