from the president t - the washington (dc) calligraphers ... · from the president. apr /ma y 2017...
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from the president
a p r / m a y 2 0 1 7 b u l l e t i n
The worldwide web, social media, and new technologies allow us to share our passion for calligraphy and the lettering arts in new and exciting ways. Do you use social media to promote your passion? Do you use software to increase the efficiency of your business, your company, your contact with new customers and vendors? Do you use social media to successfully market your product, educate the public, distribute information of interest to other calligraphic organizations and artists? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, I would like to hear from you. With the help of our sustained and growing membership base of approximately 500 members, we hope to harness new technology and social media to share our passion in new and more efficient ways. Will you volunteer to assist us in ushering new ways of sharing and doing what we love? If so, you can reach me at [email protected], or by cell at 301-706-1123. — Derrick Tabor
IN THIS ISSUE
– Membership News – In Memoriam
– Graceful Envelope ContestCall for Entries
– Traveling Through History– Gallery Space
– December meeting photos– March meeting information
artwork by Carol DuBosch
april meeting
While in the area for WCG’s special four-day workshop “A Journey Through Gothic Letterforms,”
Luca Barcellona will share his expertise in an evening program.
join us on saturday, april 29
7:00 - 9:00at
the claggett center3035 buckeystown pike
adamstown, maryland 21710
�� artwork by Martin Parker of Parquillian Design |
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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 September/October issue isAugust 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: can you help?
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! Christen Allocco – Norfolk, Virginia Pam Arthur – Hoschton, Georgia Bobbie Brown – Severna Park, Maryland Fran Brown – Longwood, Florida Madelyn Chappell – Locust Grove, Virginia Brian Crimmins – Orlando, Florida Jodean Cooper – Tempe, Arizona Eric Doerr – Frisco, Texas Melissa Dorcely – Stockbridge, Georgia Rachell Gestrich – Horseheads, New York Monika Gottlieb – Silver Spring, Maryland Sumner V. Jones – Cleveland Heights, Ohio Joy Jordan – Watkinsville, Georgia Jean Kirchner – Chesapeake, Virginia Caroline Knickerbocker – Washington, District of Columbia Mary Kucks – Purcellville, Virginia Jennifer Gregory Miller – Manassas, Virginia Patricia Nocentino – Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Kathleen M. Rollick – Lafayette, Indiana John J. Ryan – Silver Spring, Maryland Nancy Scheer – Baltimore, Maryland Janet Utman – Arlington, Virginia Patsy Wynn – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Our sincere thanks to the following members who have renewed at the Sustaining, Patron and Supporting Levels. We truly appreciate your generosity.
SUSTAINING Barbara Enyeart – Oakton, Virginia Tiiu Kera – Gaithersburg, Maryland Pamn Klinedinst – Bethesda, Maryland
PATRON Vicki Corwin – Royal Oak, Michigan Christine Crofton – Kensington, Maryland Sabrina Hill – San Jose, California Dick Hull – Norfolk, Virginia Sandra Olson – Columbia, Maryland Anne Trotter – Annandale, Virginia
SUPPORTING Angelamae Abbene – Marcy, New York Martha Boccalini – Oakland, California Annie Cicale – Fairview, North Carolina Karen E. Daly – Bethesda, Maryland Joanne DeFiore – Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Thelma Deutsch – Bethesda, Maryland Mary Evans – Glen Rock, Pennsylvania Rose Folsom – Wheaton, Maryland Rachell Gestrich – Horseheads, New York Loretta Gordon – Jarrell, Texas Dottie Gray – Alexandria, Virginia Sally Heaphy – Baltimore, Maryland Deborah Ignatowski – Lutherville, Maryland Patricia Keehn – Gig Harbor, Washington Caroline Knickerbocker – Washington, District of Columbia Linda Levine – Fredericksburg, Virginia Nancy Merritt – Washington, District of Columbia Rose Nierras – Washington, District of Columbia Deanna Jay Chu Nim – Dana Point, California Nadine A. Reposkey – Fairbank, Pennsylvania Marcy Robinson – Nutley, New Jersey Peggy Shields Schiefelbein – Washington, District of Columbia Elizabeth Anglin Simmonds – Black Mountain, North Carolina Todd A. Smith – Alexandria, Virginia Lorraine Swerdloff – Washington, District of Columbia Carla J. Tenret – Albany, California Cristina Doria Warner – Laurel, Maryland Lucinda Fitch Wright – Baltimore, Maryland Lynn A. Zigoris – Vienna, Virginia
membership news
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workshops for spring 2017
Workshops are in full swing with the first time four-day “Retreat,” April 28 – May 1 occurring with Luca Barcellona at The Claggett Retreat Center in Buckeystown in the historic countryside south of Frederick, Maryland. Conducting “A Journey through Gothic Letterforms,” Luca will show us how to work large and small on different papers, ultimately creating a definitive
artwork by May 1 when the participants from around the U.S. will journey home again. The camraderie of living and studying together at the charming Doll Cottage on the Claggett campus is one of the unique and dynamic experiences we are offering – all at a good price.
Also this spring, May 23 – May 24 brings a Missoula, Montana artist to give us new ideas of working letter images with pencil and graphite. Amity Parks is a prolific artist and calligrapher who is well known for her creative letterforms and backgrounds – fun for a
change using pencils, erasers, graphite sticks and powdered graphite – the first weekday workshop at Vienna, Virginia offered by the Guild.
Spaces are still available for both of these offerings. Go to the Workshops section of our website at www.calligraphersguild.org.
Literally Letters
Study in the beautiful setting of Ghost Ranch, June 4 – 10, 2017 in Abiquiu, New Mexico. In this stunning environment that Georgia O’Keeffe fell in love with, spend a week with either Kristen Doty who will be teaching Watercolor and Calligraphy Technique Sampler Book or Calligraphic Abstractions with Sherri Lovler. Enjoy a very special learning experience. Find more information at www.ghostranch.org.
The 36th International Lettering Arts Conference will be held at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Over four hundred artists, educators, historians, authors, students and hobbyists are expected to be in attendance.
Visit http://letterworks.org to view classes being taught by WCG members Sheila Waters, Julian Waters, Pat Blair, Barbara Close, Yves Leterme, Jacqueline Sullivan, Carol DuBosch, Annie Cicale, Randall Hasson and many more.
The Washington Calligraphers Guild would like to congratulate Ethan Cohen on being
chosen as the recipient of the 2017 Zapf Scholarship Award. Ethan has earmarked
the money to help with tuition for his final semester of the Type@Cooper Extended
Program at the Cooper Union. We wish Ethan all the best in his pursuit of
calligraphic excellence.
more learning opportunities...
— artwork by Phawnda Moore
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Counterclockwise from top:
— group shot of workshop participants - left to right: Arwa Fadag, Muhammad Fadag, Lucinda Wright, Abe Farsh, Rob Hunter, John
Fiske, Susan Easton, Judy Mueller and Janice Reyes
— Mr. Farsh writing Washington Calligraphers Guild
— artwork by John Fiske
— our final class project
Thanks to Janice Reyes for review
and photos.
april 1-2vienna art center
For two days we learned the basic elements of Persian calligraphy with Abe Farsh. Only a third of the class was familiar with the Arabic alphabet, but Mr. Farsh and his assistant Nahid Boustani made the class easy to approach for all. They both shared their experiences of tranquility when doing calligraphy, and hoped that we would come away from the class having a similar feeling.
At the end of the class, we learned to write parts of the alphabet as well as our own names. As a shared class project, Mr. Farsh calligraphed Washington Calligraphers Guild in Persian and we all signed our names
around it. The final piece was given to the WCG archives for safekeeping.
introduction to persian calligraphy�
Clockwise from top left:
Carol DuBosch; World Easter Bunny card by Martin Parker of
Parquillian Design - www.parquillian.com; Carol DuBosch;
Nancy Anderson “Scribbled Lives 2017, a closed Facebook group,
had weekly prompts to create calligraphic work. One week it was
‘first lines’ and I chose Winnie the Pooh books.”
and Michele DeSouza
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gallery space
In MemoriamIt is with much sorrow that we share with you the sad news of the passing
of our friend Phyllis Ingram. You may not have been aware of her many
contributions to the Guild, but we were all the beneficiary of her tireless efforts in mailing of the
Bulletins, Scripsits and Membership Directories. She was also the coordinator of the Holiday
Envelope Exchange.
“She was an institution that characterized our Guild...years of dedicated generosity of spirit
for the organization and years of personal effort to improve and learn her own craft,
always spreading her own kind of enthusiasm.”
She will be greatly missed.
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Can you help?The Washington Calligraphers Guild is still looking for volunteers to fill a variety of positions. Calligraphic skills are not required - just a willingness to lend a hand to keep our group functioning at its best. Membership and (with the passing of Phyllis) mailing are the primary needs, along with anyone who may be willing to work on fundraising and Calligrafest - an event that has been missed by all in our community.
If you are able to spare a little of your time, please contact Derrick Tabor at [email protected] or by cell at 301-706-1123.
vHope to see everyone at the Clagett Center on April 29
for an evening withLuca Barcellona.
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