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At the beginning, the Guild was two things: Sheila Waters’ classes and Ann and Bob Lane’s shop, Calligraphics Ink. And lots of enthusiasm. Everybody had the bug bad. It was all about getting the letter shapes right, which is the right place to start. We had so much fun learning and failing and laughing together and working so hard. Once in a while we’d do a good letter and it felt great. It was all English in the early days. No Dutch, German, Estonian, French or Chinese influences. American (pointed pen) was frowned upon; Gothic was barely countenanced – it was all English, all the time. And what a perfect nursery that was for seeing, not being distracted by shiny objects outside that hothouse for a few years. To get grounded first before venturing out and trying new things was the best gift. Donald Jackson blew in an open window of our hothouse in 1980 and things started to change – to open up. Julian started doing German things. We started going to conferences with people outside the Washington area, from outside the English gravitational field. For those of us who studied in the early ’70s with Sheila (and continued to come home to her to keep our foundations strong) nothing could replace the basic training that became the springboard for all the crazy stuff we did in later years. — Rose Folsom
See photos from the December meeting’s discussion about 4o years of Washington Calligraphers Guild on page 7.
IN THIS ISSUE
– Membership News – In Memoriam
– Graceful Envelope ContestCall for Entries
– Traveling Through History– Gallery Space
– December meeting photos– March meeting information
Artwork from top: Abe Farsh, Amity Parks and Marta Legeckis. These artists will be instructing workshops for WCG
in 2017 along with three others. More information on page 6.
f e b / m a r 2 0 1 7 b u l l e t i n
— artwork by Virginia Lockhart
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The Bulletin of the Washington Calligraphers Guild is published four times per year from September - May with a special workshops issue in January.
The deadline for submissions for the April/May issue isMarch 15, 2017. We welcome your contributions. Please send high quality digital files for text,
photos and artwork (reflecting all levels, from beginner to advanced) to [email protected]. Your submissions will be interpreted as permission to use in the Bulletin, unless otherwise specified. We
will use your submissions on a space-available basis and may reduce your artwork to accommodate available space. Mention in the Bulletin does not constitute endorsement by the
Washington Calligraphers Guild.
The Washington Calligraphers Guild, Inc., is a Virginia non-profit corporation, with an IRS tax designation of 501(c)(3). The guild’s mailing address is P.O. Box 3688, Merrifield, VA 22116-3688.
Visit our website at www.calligraphersguild.org.
washington calligraphers guild— board of directors —
– officers –president: Derrick C. Tabor
[email protected] | 301-706-1123
vice president: Amy [email protected] | 202-905-8605
treasurer: Barbara [email protected] | 703-255-4678
secretary: Gilda [email protected] | 301-315-0330
member-at-large: Tiiu [email protected] | 301-216-4842
registered agent: Bob [email protected] | 703-569-4331
– standing committees –audit: John Stackpole
[email protected] | 301-292-9479
budget & finance: Barbara [email protected] | 703-255-4678
bulletin liaison: Pamn [email protected] | 301-654-6049
education: Monica [email protected] | 301-926-6385
exhibits: Maureen [email protected]
fundraising | calligrafest co-chairs: can you help?
librarian | archivist: Lucinda Fitch [email protected]
mailings: Phyllis Ingram / [email protected]
membership: can you help?
nominating: appointed in January
programs: Monica [email protected] | 301-926-6385
publicity: Felecia [email protected] | 703-892-6262
scholarship: Marta [email protected] | 301-493-8907
scripsit liaison: Gretchen [email protected] | 703-591-5482
website: Lorraine [email protected] | 202-723-4635
workshops: Christine [email protected] | 301-745-4633
A very warm welcome to our newest members. We’re so very glad to have you! Anika Ahmed – Ashburn, VirginiaShelle W. Altieri – Alexandria, VirginiaMarjorie K. Bannish – Inverness, FloridaLorise Baratta – Summit, New YorkRoxanne Beard – Gloster, MississippiDoug Blackmore – British Columbia, CANADASuzanna Brosonski – Orlando, FloridaJanice Carrigan – Manassas, VirginiaKathleen Carroll – Bethesda, MarylandHuong T. Chu – Silver Spring, MarylandJoyce B. Curwin – South Orange, New JerseyPamela Day – Dayton, OhioClaire Frascogna – Madison, MississippiWendy Fung – Brooklyn, New YorkHeather Victoria Held – Ontario, CANADAPatricia Howard – Arlington, VirginiaLily Hoy – Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaConnie Hwang – Berkeley, CaliforniaChrist Kacoyannakis – Springfield, VirginiaNancy Keane – Great Falls, VirginiaEunice Kim – Oxford, MarylandAnne Kinnaird – Rocky Mount, North CarolinaJanice Kozlowski – New Haven, ConnecticutBarbara Leone – West Chester, PennsylvaniaLynne Lewicki – Chantilly, VirginiaSchin Loong – Henderson, NevadaAnne Mackechnie – Annapolis, MarylandKathleen Markham – Williston Park, New YorkSally Marshall-Ensworth – Cambria, CaliforniaEmily Martin – Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaTroy Martin – San Antonio, TexasJean Mays – Gaithersburg, MarylandKayla Moore – Fairfax, VirginiaMaggie Naylor – Memphis, TennesseeMarilyn New – Vancouver, WashingtonThu Nguyen – Gaithersburg, MarylandJenny Paxton – Alexandria, VirginiaSara Bojorge Saenz – Fairfax, VirginiaKerrie Schenkel-Maher – Huntsville, TexasConnie L. Stephens – Washington, DCSandra Stern – Glenwood, MarylandAmanda P. Taylor – Vienna, VirginiaGlynda Thor – Powder Springs, GeorgiaShauna Todd – Sunnyvale, CaliforniaLaurie Trayers – Washington, DCRenee Tuveson – South Bend, IndianaMarvaette Washington – Houston, TexasSarah Wilson – Bowie, MarylandLuce H. Zolna – Chicago, Illinois
membership news
— artwork by Lee Ann Clark
sad to say, another calligrapher has passed away recently. aimee
michaels valiantly fought a losing battle with cancer. she organized
masscribes in boston and was co-director of two odyssey
conferences.she was also very generous in
contributing seed money to our previous letterforum conference.she will be missed by the larger calligraphic community for her
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Our sincere thanks to the following members who have renewed at the Sustaining, Patron and Supporting Levels. We truly appreciate your generosity.
SUSTAINING
Amy Dunne – Potomac, Maryland
PATRON
John J. Desaulniers – Milford, DelawareElizabeth S. Gates – Doylestown, PennsylvaniaValerie Wilson Jermusyk – New Castle, DelawareNick Olmos-Lau – Washington, DCTerry L. Meisner – Annapolis, MarylandSusan Reeves – Cave Creek, Arizona
SUPPORTING
Linda F. Abrams – Great Neck, New YorkIris W. Anderson – Silver Spring, MarylandPam Bennett – Uwchlan, PennsylvaniaSusan Easton – Silver Spring, MarylandPatricia Fagan – Laurel, Maryland Jordenne Ferrington – Boonesboro, MarylandBarbara Greig – Vienna, VirginiaSuzanne M. Heany – Windermere, FloridaMary Henderson – Burke, VirginiaPhyllis Ingram – Fairfax, VirginiaSteve Kacz – Pitman, New JerseyLauren Keegan – Bethesda, MarylandKara Koppanyi – Timonium, MarylandBarbara A. Leasure – Oxford, GeorgiaMiki Leeper – Middletown, VirginiaMarta Legeckis – Bethesda, MarylandJodie Powell Lide – Frederick, MarylandBetsy Maguire – Savannah, GeorgiaSusan Makris – Falls Church, VirginiaKathleen Markham – Williston Park, New YorkPhawnda Moore – Rocklin, CaliforniaBarry Morentz – New York, New YorkSusan Elise Morton – Norfolk, VirginiaJudy Mueller – Columbus, OhioMargaret Natsume – Monterey, CaliforniaRick Paulus – Cazadero, CaliforniaJoan E. Pennington – Fairfax Station, VirginiaLeigh Powers – Lexington, KentuckyKatherine Rehm – Burke, VirginiaJohn D. Stackpole – Fort Washington, MarylandNickie L. Williams – Washington, DCSharon A. Zeller – Ashburn, Virginia
In MemoriamIt is with great sorrow that we share with you the sad news of the passing of Charlie Hughes, a great friend of the Washington Calligraphers Guild and one of its Honorary Members. Charlie began his career as a commercial design artist before beginning his love affair with calligraphy. A prolific designer, artist and calligrapher, Charlie’s work has graced many products seen by us on a daily basis. Brands such as Oterizer, Sara Lee, Marlboro, Virginia Slims and Yamaha read like a Who’s Who of Charlie’s work. A true Renaissance man, he tried his hand at various endeavors and was successful in all. It did not matter what he was working on, be it type and commercial design, calligraphy, and later, stone carving, Charlie exuded a boundless enthusiasm in his constant search for further knowledge. This enthusiasm and energy permeated his workshops when he taught. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be in any of his classes will never forget the exuberance and the excitement that he generated with his fascination for learning and skill in imparting his knowledge. He designed several typefaces (Indy, Indy Italic, Nova) by hand and his abcxyz logo (below) for the WCG is recognized throughout the calligraphic community. Although he is no longer with us, the memory of Charlie Hughes and his work will not be forgotten.
The Washington Calligraphers Guild extends its sincere condolences to Charlie’s immediate family and to Janey Westin, his wife and artistic partner who took such loving care of him during his last illness. – Marta Legeckis
membership newscont'd...
2017 Contest Theme: Pushing the Envelope
This is the year to challenge your creativity. Push the envelope by applying some big ideas to a small canvas. And so much the better if your design can push the envelope by promoting the exchange of letters!
Transform an ordinaryenvelope into a work of art!
Receipt of entries will not be acknowledged and entries will not be returned. Artists will be notified of the final status of their entries in early June 2017 and winners will receive certificates. No prizes will be awarded.
Winning envelopes are displayed online. Adult winners are also exhibited at the National Association of Letter Carriers Headquarters building in Washington, DC.
The 23rd annual Graceful Envelope Contest is sponsored by the Washington, DC
Calligraphers Guild and the National Association of Letter Carriers.
For the complete Call for Entries and to view last year’s winning envelopes,
go to www.calligraphersguild.org.
Winners will be chosen based on artistic hand lettering, creative interpretation of the theme
and effective use of color and design, including incorporation of postage stamp(s).
There is no entry fee. Entries must be postmarked no later than Monday, March 27, 2017,and addressed artistically by hand to:
The Graceful Envelope Contest100 Indiana Ave. NWWashington, DC 20001
See www.calligraphersguild.org for complete rules.
Entries must be processed and delivered through the U.S. Postal Service as First Class Mail and may not be wrapped in a separate envelope or protective covering. You may enter only one envelope. Legibly print your name, mailing address and e-mail address on the BACK of the envelope. Students must also indicate their grade, because judges will consider entries in the following categories:
Adult Grades 9-12 Grades 5-8 Grades 1-4
National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIOwww.nalc.org 202-662-2851
Deadline for entries:March 27, 2017
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TRAVELING THROUGH HISTORYThe Pleasures of Studying Historical Scripts
– by Barry Morentz
This year the Society of Scribes is celebrating its 42nd anniversary. It was founded by a small group of practicing scribes who wished to share their enthusiasm for calligraphy with a wider public by offering workshops and lectures on the history of the lettering and book arts. Along with the Friends of Calligraphy in San Francisco, which was established at the same time, following Donald Jackson’s landmark lectures there and in New York City, SoS offered a dazzling array of workshops and seminars in the major historical scripts.
Renaissance Italic, Roman Capitals, Bookhand and Carolingian headed the list of classes that newcomers flocked to. Shortly thereafter members were introduced to a rich palette of luscious, exotic Blackletter alphabets, along with the more eccentric regional hands such as Luxeuil and Beneventan Minuscule. By the early ’80s pointed pen alphabets began to make their mark, attracting other members who were content to work in a more contemporary mode, while others were thrilled to journey through time to study and put to use long forgotten scripts.
Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented interest and super-charged enthusiasm for pointed pen in all its variations. This is a welcome development in the light of increasing technology which has caused some to declare an end to the age of handwriting. What makes it even more gratifying is the fact that in most guilds and at the national conferences there appears to be an increase in the younger generation exploring our art.
But it also seems that with a few exceptions, such as Blackletter variants in the hands of a Julian Waters or Luca Barcellona, interest in the historical scripts has waned considerably since the halcyon days of the ’70s and ’80s. This is a shame, because familiarity with these alphabets goes a long way to creating interesting, arresting designs that attract a reader’s attention and lead to a desire to know more about these scripts. And when called upon to write out a text from a particular historical period it may be more appropriate to render the text, or at least the title, in a style of writing indicative of that time, or with a modernized version in the spirit of Sheila Waters’ brilliantly executed Carolingian for Dylan Thomas’ Under Milkwood. I can recall passing the Morgan Pierpont Library and gazing with delight at Alice’s authoritative banners heralding a major exhibition, sometimes in a scintillating Batarde, sometimes in a majestic Uncial, and always conveying the right flavor.
Recently, California calligrapher and illustrator Risa Gettler has been teaching a most unusual, rather esoteric script, Visigothic Versals, the alphabet of 8th and 9th century Spain. At first glance one is struck by the strange, slightly weird, sometimes wacky forms. Upon closer scrutiny, however, one comes to see the incredible imagination and exuberance of this alphabet, and how winsomely they have been applied by Risa in children’s books. Indeed, in that context they convey an innocence that imparts a greater liveliness than the texts might otherwise have had if they were written in, say, Italic or Bookhand. An unfamiliar script may also slow the reader’s pace, resulting in a greater concentration on the words and the text’s meaning. This actually happened to me several years ago, when I was commissioned to write
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2017hermann zapf
educationfund
scholarshipreminder
!A final reminder that the Washington Calligraphers Guild is accepting applications from Guild members (at least a year’s membership is required) for the Hermann Zapf Education Fund Scholarship. The scholarship is designed to assist promising students of calligraphy, and its related arts, with their ongoing study of the broad edge pen. It helps with expenses for workshops, classes, books, conference fees, private studies, etc. The scholarships are offered annually through the encouragement and generosity of Professor Hermann Zapf.
The awarded amount of money does not exceed $1000 per session, and more than one recipient may be selected each time. A panel of three judges reviews applications (blind entries) and selects the successful candidates for a main award and possibly smaller awards. An applicant, whose proposal has not been funded may re-apply after one year; an applicant who has been awarded funds may re-apply after two years. The deadline for applications for the 2017 Scholarship is February 26, 2017. The application guidelines and forms can be found on the WCG website http://www.calligraphersguild.org/zapf.html or may be obtained by contacting Marta Legeckis at the e-mail address or phone number below. Any additional information about eligibility and areas of study should be directed to Marta Legeckis at telephone number 301-493-8806 or 301-693-1061 or e-mail at [email protected].
Master artist and WCG member Lubna Zahid will be teaching The Art of Illumination workshop with Scripts ’n’ Scribes on March 4th and 5th. She has over 25 years of experience and recently taught an Art of Illumination workshop at the Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. More information can be found at https://www.scriptsnscribes.com/classes/.
Registration is now open for the entire slate of 2017 WCG workshops. Register now to secure a spot in one of our many varied classes. Instructors include Amity Parks, Abe Farsh, Pat Blair, Yves Leterme and Marta Legeckis.
Spots are also still available for the special workshop with Luca Barcellona from April 28-May 1. Find out more information in the recently delivered Workshop Bulletin or online at http://www.calligraphersguild.org.
Learning Opportunities
Jodie Lide ● Calligraphy & Design
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out the opening lines of the St John’s Gospel. The client chose a highly personal, quite eccentric version of Gothicized Italic, stating that the elaborate forms caused him to slow his reading speed and to focus on the content. Remember Edward Johnston’s admonition to his students to “think about the words.”
No less a compelling reason to study antique scripts is that they provide building blocks for the creation of new and unique, personalized versions of familiar alphabets. Once you have attained the understanding and ability to execute traditional styles, you may begin experimenting with various elements of different scripts and synthesize them into something new and exotic. So, for example, you may apply one of the quirkier elements of a Visigothic Versal to the solid structure of a Roman or Uncial form, and develop something quite unexpected and attractive. This brings us into the realm of calligraphic playing, a time no less valuable than concentrated, disciplined study. So, for example, when examining a truly bizarre lettering style, Luxeuil Miniscule, a precursor of Carolingian, that looks
rather like a plate of spaghetti haphazardly tossed into the air, you may perceive a verve and texture that can be applied to quickly rendered gestural strokes resulting in an unusual and visually arresting composition. This is not to imply that the process is always easy or a guaranteed success, but it does expand the field of creativity.
Way back in the early ’90s a wave of expressionist, abstract calligraphy began to seduce scribes and other practitioners of the broad-edged pen. For all the razzle-dazzle it was often apparent who had a solid foundation and understanding of classic letterforms – and who did not. Not even the most bravura strokes and bold applications of color could mask the weaknesses and flaws in these designs, but those who knew their traditional forms understood how to break the rules and succeed in creating something new and dramatic.
So, the next time you attend a cocktail party whip out a marker and write the guests’ names in Schwabacher Fraktur or Merovingian Minuscule. Not only will you delight and fascinate your friends, but you may wind up with a contract for the next remake of 10,000 BC.
TRAVELING THROUGH HISTORY cont'd...
– artwork by Carol DuBosch– artwork by Jodie Lide
— g a l l e r y s p a c e —
Clockwise from top: Charter members share the story of the formation and early growth of the Washington Calligraphers Guild. (See Rose Folsom’s comments on page 1.) Panelists included (from left): Ann Hawkins, Sammy Little, Julian Waters, Rose Folsom, Sheila Waters and Bernie Freiland; Monica Cimino introduces the program; an entertained audience; Mary Lou O’Brian and Ann Czapiewski. – photos courtesy of Derrick Tabor and Virginia Lockhart
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scenes from the december meetingcelebrating the guild’s 40th anniversary
– artwork by Carol DuBosch
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movie nightsaturday evening
march 187:00 p.m.
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We all love the Book of Kells, but who created it? How? Come to the next program
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The animated film “The Secret of Kells” will help with the imagination part. This
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Hope to see everyone at the movies in the Social Hall.
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