Flourishes - May, 2006
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Kaye’s Korner |
May Activities Early Bird Mini Workshop * * * Bring these supplies to make the shadowbox pages: |
bulletin board |
May Birthdays
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Our 30th Anniversary Celebration
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A person can learn so much at a 30th Anniversary Celebration, like... Helen Rasplicka used to have a motorcycle, learned calligraphy from Kitty Maguire, formed our guild with Jennie McHugh and helped to write the by-laws. Rod Smith always wanted to make a book, saw Kitty Maguire’s book in a display and signed up for her class, then secretly practiced in the bathroom with the door locked, in order to surprise his wife with the book he’d made her. Nancy McHugh is the mother of Jennie McHugh, who is a charter member who started doing calligraphy so that she could address her own wedding invitations. Eleanor Russell was our first workshop chairperson and brought Paul Freeman here to teach our very first serious major workshop. Vera Irby was told by a prominent calligraphy instructor that it was “ridiculous” to be left handed! Pauline Sager came here in 1977 and was enrolled in a workshop within 6 weeks! Carol Patterson studied with Lloyd Reynolds, Friedrich Neugebauer, Hermann Zapf, and Sheila Waters, and she stood on the scaffolding and watched Father Catich chisel. Dolores Schultz attended the very first international conference at St. John’s in Minnesota, and then came home and started the South West Calligraphy Conference. Camille Storment took her first calligraphy class from Donald Jackson. Rudy Gonzalez learned calligraphy when his boss brought him some ink, a Speedball pen, and 200 certificates and said, “Letter these, it’s just like sign painting only smaller, and by the way, don’t make any mistakes because we don’t have any spares.” Bill Bristow, retired professor and chairman of the Department of Art at Trinity University, calls himself one of Joan Schmitz’s only failures as a calligraphy student and says the guild only keeps him on as a sort of pet mascot! The Anniversary Celebration was just that - a celebration of friendship, a shared love of the calligraphic arts, and a shared history. Many of the members present that night stressed the sentiment that Sylvia Stanley expressed best when she said “the strength of our guild is its generosity and the friendliness of its members.” And many reminded us of the contributions of those who are no longer with us, either because they have moved on to other places and interests, or because sadly they have passed away. These include Martha Hicks, Grace Strey, Corinda Allison, Denise Adler, Kitty Maguire, Kit Nelson, and many others. We celebrated long into the night and enjoyed ourselves immensely. May we have many, many more celebrations like this one. |
| What membership in the SACG has meant to Bonnie Houser: Alphabets, Alphabetica, acrylics, aha Brady, brushes, books, Brown, Beasley Cookbook Committee, Culmone, collage, calendars, Cicale Decorated letters, dirty fingers Ezell, envelopes Foundational, Furber, Fay Gouache, gold, golden mean, Ghost Ranch Hours of practice, Harris, hubby’s patience for my calligraphic indulgence Ink, Ingmire, italic Jackson, journals Kiesel, Kesceg, Knight, Kells Letterforms, 26 Letters, Linex, Legacies Melvin, Morentz, Moore Nibs, new sheet of paper Opportunities, lost and taken Paste paper, paint, Phillips, pastels, Patterson, Palleson Quotes, quips, quills Rasplicka, Reis, Reggie color wheel Surface design, Strom, Spraher, St. John’s Bible Threads, texture, tempered Uncial Valentines, vellum, versals, visible language Workshops, Waters Xyron Yellow and blue don’t make green Zoomorphic, zingers, Zeugin |
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The Art of Papercutting |
May 2006 Flourishes'
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