Category: General Meetings

Images are from our Summer Potluck and envelope exchange, everyone ate well and had a lot of fun!

At this month’s meeting, our speaker, Pamela Paulsrud, did a fabulous presentation. The title of her presentation was Trees Speak in Whispers. She was also the instructor for the weekend’s major workshop. During our meeting, we also had our announcements of the Paul Freeman Award winners. Each nominee received a lovely calligrapher scroll. Our members enjoy the share…

This month’s meeting was movie night, the Guild was treated to a showing of “Gold Beaters” where we learned the process of creating gold for use in art. Our Early Bird was led by Maggie Gillikin who talked about 23 carat gold gilding and gave examples of gilding with various member’s artwork. During our Meeting,…

March’s General Meeting was a display of Oriental books, Art, and a Painting Demo with Maggie Gillikin. During the early bird, Maggie demonstrated gyotaku and showed Japanese Sendai dolls. She demonstrated the strokes for writing Japanese, handouts and rice paper were provided for all to learn some Japanese writing. There was even a display of…

Many people came to participate in a hands-on class, It’s All Greek to me! Beth Morton shared how to incorporate Greek words & “Greek style” into our lettering. The hands-on class was led by Beth Morton. She also had an early-bird, where we practiced copying Greek words.