Saturday Special
A L T e r E d Shopping Bag Book
Saturday - June 2, 2007 - 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Regular meeting room at the church – Instructor: Lynn Rothe

Often times, we go through our sometimes mundane, daily lives in a fog.  Then every once in a while something catches our eye and snaps us to attention.  This class will help you have more of the "Aha" moments by looking at everyday items in a new light.

We will be making a book, with several pockets and lots of embellishments, out of small shopping bags (8" x 10") with handles.  This could be the perfect treasure for your secret pal, a collection of “stuff”, souvenirs from a fun trip, etc., for a friend or yourself. Fancy, frilly, earthy, colorful, funky…each one will have its own personality.
This will be a fun project and the techniques used are very much like those used for altered books. So, put your thinking cap on and start collecting.

Saturday Special fee: $20.00
Supply fee (payable to the instructor): $6.00

We will break for lunch so bring something for yourself or if you’d like to share, we can spread it all out and do a sort of “whatever” buffet routine. Also, bring something to drink.

Student Supply List:
Magazine pictures, clothing packaging, food packaging, signage, menus, programs, event ticket stubs, business cards, and any other everyday items you’d like to incorporate into your book.  These items will be used to present great design opportunities. 
Your favorite rubber stamps & ink pads
Colored Markers
Punches
Ribbons, threads, yarns, fibers, etc
Any embellishments you’d like to use
PVA glue, glue stick or Jewel-It Embellishing glue
Paper towels
Scissors, X-acto knife, cutting mat
Book-binding needle (if you don’t have one, there will be enough to share)

Instructor will furnish:
The bags for the books, ribbons, buttons, beads, lots of miscellaneous embellishments, elastic cord, punches to make tiny tags, tiny pockets and tiny envelopes, colored and designed papers and card stock, tags, collage box, glazes, paints and brushes, colored hot glue and guns, goody bags for each student and probably lots of other stuff I think of between now and class time!

Thanks so much to Betty Lou Jordan, BJ Grant, Lynn Rothe, and Sally Theus for the Hospitality refreshments at the May meeting. Don’t forget that we are all responsible for the June Potluck Dinner!

If you have not yet paid your Membership Dues for the coming year, please do so at the next meeting or mail your membership form and check to Angie Chaos-Peters (401 Holland, #132, SAT, 78212) . Dues are $24 and cover your membership from July 1 through June 30, and must be paid by the June Pot Luck if you want your name and contact information in the Directory.

The Spring Exhibit is still hanging at Los Patios in the Arbor Room. Be sure to go see it if you haven’t yet.

Take down for the show is on Monday, June 4, from 10 AM—12 noon. If the day and/or time are difficult for you, please contact a friend to pick up your work, OR contact the Exhibit Committee, Jill Adams, Helen Rasplicka, and BJ Grant.

With the private gift to the SACG in memory of her mother, Sylvia Stanley purchased Sheila Waters' book Foundations of
Calligraphy for our library. 

She also donated two other books, The Calligrapher’s Project Book and Making Memory Books. Thank you, Sylvia, for your thoughtfulness, these are all great additions to the library.

Lynn Rothe has completed and distributed to the members the new Library Inventory. Thank you, Lynn.

Congratulations to the Paul Freeman Award Winners: Lenora Jordan, Lynn Rothe, Dolores Schultz, and Pam Thomas. You guys earned it! And congrats to all the nominees, who worked so hard for SACG this year and who each received a little Paul Freeman House as a thank you.

We extend our sympathies to Nancy Palermo and her family on the death of Nancy’s father.

June 07
2  -  BJ Nichol
9  -  BJ Grant
13 - Jan Gorman
16 - Martha Kallus
21 - Cheri Wolf
23 - Jennie Duncan
29 - Carol Walls

Peter Thornton Workshop Review

Having whetted our collective appetites during the Thursday Special Presentation, Peter Thornton then delighted his two workshop classes with lively and imaginative skill. Twenty people attended the one day workshop on how to build up Roman Capitals; twenty-two (including three members from Austin) took part in the major workshop ‘dedicated’ to the work of the German artist, Adolf Bernd (1909-1994.)

Peter Thornton has been a professional calligrapher since 1969 and has taught in Canada, Japan, South Africa and Europe. He can now add San Antonio to his ever expanding list of US cities, where he has taught for over twenty years. A book titled, “Alphabetically Speaking” was published to celebrate his twenty-five years of teaching and lecturing. He is a Fellow of CLAS and is well known for his ‘Musicalligraphy’, a wonderful combination and integration of music and letters, heard and seen simultaneously.

His detailed examination of Adolf Bernd’s work was thoroughly enlightening. Decorated letters have fascinated most calligraphers for ages, and Adolf Bernd’s treatment is quite unique. The combination of water color, design and intimate knowledge of letter form never fails to produce often startling, and always beautiful, colored letters

Prior to this workshop, most of us had never heard of Adolf Bernd. With sincere thanks to Peter Thornton, we can now appreciate the wonderful, lasting contribution that this man has undoubtedly left to art and to calligraphy. We have been taken to new levels of awareness and appreciation, by a teacher of immense knowledge and experience, infinite charm and unflagging enthusiasm. We were treated to his unbridled North Country humor and to his sensitivity, and he left us with at least two quotable quotes: “Never say ‘I can’t do it’ – say, ‘I can’t do it yet.’” And, “When you look at your neighbor’s work, you see it for what it is. When you look at your own work, you see it for what it isn’t.”

Thank you Peter Thornton, we are all so much better off because of your all too brief visit to San Antonio. As we say down here, “Y’all hurry back, ya hear!”

UFO
UN-FINISHED OBJECT PLAY DAYS
Saturday, July 14, 2007, 9:30 - 4:30
Saturday, August 11, 2007, 9:30 - 4:30
In our usual meeting room

Do you have a lot of things that you began and intended to finish, but never did?
Do you have multiple projects that began in a workshop and were never completed?
Are you at a standstill on a potentially awesome work of art and just don’t know how to proceed?

These are the days for you! On two different Saturdays, in July and August, we will have UFO Days, for completion of unfinished objects. There will not be an instructor, but there will be fellow calligraphers and artists around you, providing inspiration, suggestions, and gentle critique. So bring your work, your supplies, and your energy, lunch if you want it, and a little money to pay for the room. The cost will depend on the number of people present; the total room cost is $25.

Please sign up by calling Lenora Jordan, so she will know how many to expect and can limit the numbers to the room’s capacity. 210-655-4880.
 

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