Friends of Calligraphy workshops are open to current FOC members. Fort Mason classes are open to the public. They are sponsored by FOC, and taught by FOC members. Also listed below are classes by FOC members who teach in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. They are not sponsored by FOC, but are listed here as a courtesy to our members. Please contact individual instructors for details.
FOC Workshops • Fort Mason Classes • Lecture Series • Members Who Teach
FRIENDS OF CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP
- SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION (with Neuland) (download pdf flyer)
Judy Melvin, instructor
Wednesday June 23–Sunday June 27, 2010 • 9:00–4:30 pm
International House • 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
Fee: $390 plus a small materials fee
This is a class full of tricks and techniques which, when applied to actual design projects, create amazing results. The vision of this class is to control the fear of failure and to encourage participants to work quickly on several pieces at once. Lots of risk-taking encourages the unique vision within each artist to surface! I continually demonstrate and explain my methods before each technique and then give a time limit for hands-on work by the students. The ideas begin to jump from one piece to another—spontaneously—no actual burning in the process! In this class I will also include teaching the Neuland alphabet—which is dynamic and powerful in itself, but very adaptable and playful and works well with other hands.
This is mixed-media mayhem! Bring whatever you have and we will use/try it. The work will be fast-paced, positive and fun. Come with an open mind, a willingness to get involved, and share an exciting adventure in design.
Judy Melvin’s lifelong passion for art started with crayons and advanced to inks, paints, pens and a combination of all in mixed-media layering. She enjoyed a twelve-year career with American Greetings Corporation as a design and lettering artist where she focused on creating lettering for products, new fonts, and painting and designing countless greeting cards for the innovative Coffeehouse line. Judy teaches design, mixed-media and brush lettering workshops throughout the US and Canada and has served on the faculty of several of the International Lettering Conferences. She has also taught at Literally Letters, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico and Letters California Style 2009 & 2010 mini-conferences. Judy practices what she teaches with her unique version of fine artwork which incorporates and often begins with lettering layered with mixed-media. Her work has been published and exhibited throughout the USA, Canada, Austria and is in numerous collections worldwide.
BASIC CALLIGRAPHY COURSES AT FORT MASON • Open to the public
For more information on Fort Mason classes please contact Elizabeth Nisperos. The registration form in pdf format can be downloaded here.
*BASIC SUPPLIES* and additional or different supplies specified by each instructor are listed at the end of each class description. The term “Basic Supplies” refers to: black ink (Higgins Eternal or Pelikan Fount India), all sizes Brause pen nibs, one or two pen holders, pencil & eraser, 18”– 24” metal ruler, notebook, cotton rag, a small water jar.
Calligraphy supplies, especially Brause and Mitchell pen nibs, can be difficult to find. Call or visit your local art supply stores, such as Arch, Dick Blick, Flax, Michaels, Pearl, Utrecht. If they don’t have what you need, contact the calligraphy mail order catalogs:
John Neal Bookseller, 1.800.369.9598, www.JohnNealBooks.com
Paper & Ink Arts, 1.800.736.7772, www.paperinkarts.com
- BASIC DESIGN
Georgianna Greenwood, instructor
Seven Tuesday evenings, 6:30–9:00 p.m.
September 14–October 26, 2010
Anyone who can write the capitals and small letters of one script is ready to do simple projects. Through exercises with format and proportion, symmetry and asymmetry, and the contrast relationships of size, weight, form, and style, beginning scribes will learn to make informed, -even inspired!- decisions about page layouts for a variety of purposes.
Supplies: Basic Supplies, 11" x 17" pad of blue line grid paper (8 x 8 to the inch)
Georgianna Greenwood graduated from Reed College and the Portland Museum Art School in 1960 and has been teaching and practicing calligraphy in Berkeley since 1964. She has given lectures, demonstrations, and work-shops in the United States, England, & Germany.
- ENVELOPES, ANYONE?
Antonia (Nini) Smith, instructor
Four Tuesday evenings, 6:30–9:00 p.m.
November 2– 23, 2010
$85 (FOC members: $80)
Addressing envelopes and making place cards are two of the most requested uses for lettering. With a little technical knowledge, these calligraphic opportunities can be less overwhelming. If you are comfortable with a lettering style of any kind and can write with a small nib, the techniques you are shown in this class will prepare you to accept tha envelope addressing job and enjoy doing it.
Supplies: Basic Supplies, a roll of white artist's tape, a selection of envelopes, and a 8.5" x 11" pad of blue line grid paper (8 x 8 to the inch)
Antonia (Nini) Smith has loved lettering since she first learned to write. Her first calligraphy class was with Arne Wolf at the University of California where she received a BA in Design in 1969. As well as freelancing, Nini has been enthusiastically teaching calligraphy to children and adults at private schools and Adult Schools since 1971. Presently, she teaches at Piedmont Adult School in Piedmont, California.
SAN FRANCISCO:
- Ward Dunham & Linnea Lundquist • 415.864.2928.
Black Sabbath! Ongoing classes in the blackletter hands. Classes held once a month on Saturday mornings from 10 am to 1 pm at Atelier Gargoyle in San Francisco. All levels welcome. Send an email to info@AtelierGargoyle.com - Thomas Ingmire • Call 415.673.4938.
International Calligraphy Correspondence Program. Classes at all levels.
CPA-HO, 1040A Filbert Street, San Francisco, CA 94133.
EAST BAY:
- Antonia (Nini) Smith • Call 510 526-7249
Year-round classes at Piedmont Adult School - Erma Takeda • Call 925.284.7368
- Carla Tenret • Call 510.526.1214
Year round classes at Albany Adult School - Holly Ynostroza • 510.655.7591
Private classes; Adult Program, Orinda Community Center
SONOMA COUNTY:
- Chris K. Foster • Call 916.797.0232
Ongoing classes in Beginning Italic continuing to Roman Capitals. - Sherrie Lovler • Call 707.528.1723.
Calligraphic Book Hand for Book Artists. - Melissa Titone • Call 707. 573.3810
Ongoing classes and private lessons in Santa Rosa.
MARIN COUNTY:
- JoAnn Burchfiel • Call 415.924.2625
- Patti Cooke • Call 415.461.2533
MENDOCINO:
- Judy Detrick • Call 707.964.9276
Ongoing classes at all levels.
SOUTH BAY:
- Melissa Dinwiddie • Call 650.938.3939 or info@mddesignworks.com
Calligraphy, book arts, and illumination - Sara Loesch Frank • Call 408.446.3397 or frankfam@jps.net
Ongoing calligraphy classes for beginners and intermediates. - Marian Gault • Call 408.395.8026 or mariansg@aol.com
Calligraphy classes at South Side Community Center - Ann Thompson • Call 408.378.6965
MONTEREY/CARMEL:
- Debra Ferreboeuf • Call 831 655-4311
RENO/TAHOE:
- Carol Pallesen • 775.329.6983
Ongoing classes in calligraphy and book arts
NEW MEXICO:
- Kazuaki Tanahashi • 505.986.8518 or upaya@upaya.org
Courses at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe
ONLINE:
- Ann Miller • 650.558.8270
Calligraphy and Letterform. Advanced Calligraphy. Two accredited Online courses through San Francisco Academy of Art University
Friends of Calligraphy
P.O. Box 425194
San Francisco, California 94142-5194
President, Meredith Klein • Vice President, Laura Bernabei • Treasurer, Theresa Doane • Secretary, Jerry Lehman
Council: Jennifer Enault, Jessie Evans, Georgianna Greenwood, Megan Lucas, Elizabeth Nisperos
Alphabet Editor: Marcia Friedman
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