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
- STYLIZED WRITING with Brush and Pen (download pdf flyer)
Georgia Deaver, instructor
Saturday and Sunday • February 27 and 28 • 9:30–4:30
Fort Mason • San Francisco
$150 FOC members; $165 non-members
In this workshop, students can expect their work to develop “attitude”. The workshop presents a bridge between each student’s own handwriting and their formal italic writing. For part of this workshop, students will be working to free up their italic writing. Then, through a series of exercises, they will combine it with their own handwriting – for new stylized personal hands. Students’ writing will not be a perfect italic hand but much more expressive. On day one students work with a pen and on day two with a brush. If time allows, the last hours of the workshop will be used to combine their new expressive writing with some images. Students will be expected to actively participate in the critiques.
All levels welcome, but should be comfortable with basic Italic
Send your check (payable to Friends of Calligraphy) to Megan Lucas, 2789 Idaho Street, Napa, CA 94558. Please include your email address and phone number with your check. Enrollment is limited to 20 participants with preference given to current FOC members. (If you would like to join FOC, please include a separate check for $36.) Questions? Contact Megan at mll13@comcast.net or 707-259-1753. Workshop fees are refundable until February 12th; after that date only if your space can be filled from a waiting list.
Georgia Deaver found her calling as an artist while she was growing up in San Jose, CA. Her love of experimentation with line and color has led Georgia down a vibrant, award-winning path as a lettering artist and illustrator. She has run her own studio in San Francisco since 1984, executing the full gamut of jobs – from hand lettered envelopes to corporate signage on the gleaming hulls of airplanes. Georgia is a nominated member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators. Her art has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards from such organizations as Communication Arts and The New York Type Directors club, among others. Visit Georgia’s website: www.georgiadeaver.com.
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
- COPPERPLATE This class is full, please submit your name on the waiting list.
Melissa Titone, instructor
Seven Tuesday evenings, 6:30–9:00 p.m.
January 19–March 2, 2010
$150 (FOC members: $140)
Copperplate is a beautiful flowing script which was developed in the seventeenth century and is commonly used today for invitations to formal events such as weddings. In this class you will become familiar with the pressure-and-release action of a pointed pen, learn the upper and lower case alphabets, numbers, punctuation, and spacing. We also will discuss using letter-form variations to create different styles, and the mechanics of addressing envelopes.
Supplies: Paper, pens and ink can be purchased at the first class for approximately $18.00
Melissa Titone has owned a freelance calligraphy business since 1988, doing every-thing from wedding invitations to commercial lettering. She has enjoyed teaching children and adults, both privately and in workshops and classes. Her work has been seen in various juried exhibitions and has been published in several books, including Greeting Card Design, The Speedball Textbook, American Corporate Identity, Letterheads Gone Digital, and The Artful Letter Engagement Calendar.
- HANDWRITING This class is full, please submit your name on the waiting list.
Claude Dieterich A., instructor
Seven Wednesday evenings, 6:30–9:00 p.m.
March 10–April 21, 2010
$150 (FOC members: $140)
The books of Ludovico Vincentino Arrighi teach us that Renaissance italic was used for formal writing in important books and documents. Working as a secretary at the Vatican he also was writing a faster version with numerous joins between letters. Using these italic letters and working on form, rhythm, and speed, we will train to change our everyday handwriting into an elegant, fluent, and legible script.
Supplies: Basic Supplies, 11" x 17" calligraphy pad blue line grid paper (8 x 8 to the inch); instead of penholders and Brause pen nibs listed in Basic Supplies, substitute a cartridge fountain pen* with calligraphic nibs, sizes fine and medium.
*Look for brands such as: Sheaffer, Rotring, Manuscript, Pelikan, Pilot, or Lamy.
Claude Dieterich A., originally from Avignon, studied graphic design and fine art in France. After working in magazine design in Paris, he emigrated to Lima, Peru, where he had his own design studio for 25 years and served as Dean of the Graphic Design Department, Catholic University, in Lima, for seven years. He studied calligraphy with Hermann Zapf. Now residing in San Francisco, Claude teaches calligraphy and lettering at the Academy of Art University. His work can be found in the Harrison Calligraphy Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.
- ROMAN CAPITALS
Judy Detrick, instructor
Seven Tuesday evenings, 6:30–9:00 p.m.
May 4 –June 15, 2010
$150 (FOC members: $140)
In continuous use for over 2000 years, these letters have varied little since their founding. They are perfect in any setting, whether formal or casual, and they blend well with other lettering styles. We will examine their basic structure, and then dress them up with various stroke techniques and serif options. Roman numerals are included, of course.
Supplies: Basic Supplies, 14" x 17" pad of layout bond paper.
Judy Detrick has taught calligraphy and graphic design at College of the Redwoods on the Mendocino coast for more than 25 years and developed the Graphic Arts Certificate Program there. She is currently editor of Alphabet, the journal of the Friends of Calligraphy. Her work can be found in the Harrison Calligraphy Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.
- 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, 2009
$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, Georgianna Greenwood, Megan Lucas, Elizabeth Nisperos, Suzanne Yoshii,
Alphabet Editor: Judy Detrick
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