Remember the 26 Letter Poster?  Well, it’s baaaaack!  Since we will be offering the remaining posters for sale at Legacies in Dallas in July, we want to be sure that all of our current members have a chance to purchase one before then.  The cost is $10, payable to SACG.  This may be our last chance to purchase a poster, so be sure to contact Jill Adams if you would like just one more.  She will bring them to the  Pot Luck Dinner on June 2.  She also has mailing tubes for $1 a piece.

June Pot Luck Dinner

Installation of Officers 

Thursday, June 2,  2005

6:30  -  9 pm,  In our usual meeting room at Christ Episcopal Church

 Please join your fellow calligraphers for the SACG Annual Pot Luck Dinner and Installation of Officers, as we close out the current year and look forward to the next.  As always, the food and friendship will be plentiful .  And we will welcome our new officers and members at large.  

 Please remember to bring your pot luck dish to share with the group.

 And, remember - this evening is an opportunity to start off the summer by delivering that very first gift to your Secret Pal.   

Also, please pay your dues at this time, if you have not yet done so.  After this date, there is no guarantee that your information will be in the directory.

Calligraphy Exchange 

Thursday, August 25, 2005

6:30-9 PM in our usual meeting room 

At the annual Calligraphy Exchange, we will have an opportunity to share our wares, trade, sell, and donate whatever we’ve accumulated and no longer need.  Our vendors will be present and will be offering a discount to those who are in attendance that evening. 

 Don’t miss this end-of-summer visiting and shopping with friends.   

Please contact Jill Adams if you will need table space.  There is no rental fee for tables, but table space is limited.  Also, please keep in mind that this is our “calligraphy exchange” and items for sale should be in some way calligraphy or art related.

 Mini Workshop

Art In Your Pocket, with Cher Solis

Thursday, June 16, 2005
7-9 PM in our usual meeting room at the church

Artist Trading Cards

If you ever collected baseball cards then you have a very good idea what an ATC looks like. Basically, ATC’s are  miniature works of art which can be produced as an original or as very limited editions. You can create, trade and collect these "little works of art" with artists from around the world.  Check out the internet.

 Only One Rule

The cards should be the same size as traditional collector cards: 2.5 inches wide by 3.5 inches tall (64mm x 89mm).  The only "rule" is that they are supposed to be the same size so that they can fit into the plastic protective sheets used to store trading cards.

 Theme

We will create at least 2 cards, one to keep, and one to trade.  Any theme  is acceptable.   Feel free to draw in pencil, pen, marker, chalk or crayon, paint, use photographs, collage,  (my favorite) found materials, mixed media -- anything!  Make sure you sign and date your cards.

 History of ATC’s

 Artists’ Trading Cards or ATC’s, as they are frequently referred to, were initiated in 1997 by Zurich artist M. Vänçi Stirnemann, as a means for artists to share, and socialize with other artists. But with today’s technology, internet trading groups have added a whole new dimension.

How you design and decorate your card is totally up to you. It can be as unique as you are, just as in any other art form. Essentially ATC’s are miniature works of mixed media art using various techniques such as painting, collage, photography, rubber stamps, assemblages, etc. Think along the terms of collage items that may have previously been taken for granted, such as stamps, envelopes, clipped images from magazines and newspapers, junk mail, etc… The idea is to use what normally would have been thrown away, and give it new life. You are free to paint, draw, print, do wax resist, add fibers; trinkets... the possibilities are endless!

  Supply List:

·          Scissors, Glue Stick, Ruler

·          Bring anything you would use to create Art such as: calligraphy supplies, markers, colored pencils, rubber stamps, inks……….. and most of all….. your imagination!

  ** There is a 5:00 supply fee for …

Collage Materials – papers, cardstock will be provided****

Saturday Special

Continuation of Copperplate with Thea Moore

Fine-tuning Minuscules and Variations of Majuscules 
Thea Moore, an experienced calligrapher and SACG member, will be
teaching another Saturday Special on Copperplate Calligraphy entitled

“Fine-tuning Minuscules and Variations of Majuscules.”  This class will
take place on  Saturday, June 11, 2005, in our usual meeting room from
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM at Christ Episcopal Church. 

The students in her first class expressed a desire to continue for a
second class.  This is your chance to join them if you have had some
previous copperplate experience.   Please bring your regular
copperplate supplies - nib, holder, ink, and paper.  If there is any
question, please feel free to contact Thea.
 
Thea is a world class calligrapher and copperplate master. She is a
professional calligrapher for several local businesses, and her range of
experiences includes wedding invitations, personal dinners, teas,
baptism and wedding certificates, and debutantes.

Class fee:  $20 for members; $25.00 for non-members

(plus supplies if needed)

Contact Betty Lou Jordan to sign up:
210-654-4045

or send check to
12611 La Noche St
San Antonio, Texas  78233

bjordan11@satx.rr.com
A BC

Saturday Special Guidelines 

Saturday Specials are one-day workshops designed to provide classes at
reasonable cost to participants. 

Saturday Special Guidelines: 

*    There will be two to four Saturday Specials per Guild year.

*    Class size will be a minimum of 10 participants at $20/person
($25/non-member), with a maximum of 20 due to space limitations, unless
enrollment is otherwise set by Instructor.  The class fee must be paid
prior to the Saturday Special Workshop.

*     Registration Deadlines:  Ten participants must sign up by two weeks
before the date, or class will be canceled unless the Instructor is
willing to teach with fewer than ten students and accept a smaller
stipend.  If there are more than ten students, participants may
continue to sign up until one week before the scheduled class date. 
Sign up less than one week in advance will be only with permission of
the Instructor to allow for preparation of materials.

*    The stipend for ten students will be $175.00, and  for 11 or more
students, the maximum stipend will be $200.00. If there are fewer
students, and, providing that the instructor will accept a lower class
stipend,  the fee will be $20.00 times the number of students minus the
$25.00 room fee (for example in the case of eight students, the stipend
would be eight times $20.00 minus the $25.00 room fee for a total
stipend of $135.00).  Excess money (fees for more than 12 students or
the $5.00 extra for non-members) will go to the general operating fund.

*    There will be no class refunds, but participant may arrange for
someone to take his/her place and be reimbursed by the new student.

*     Specific course descriptions by instructors will be presented at the
time of registration.  Instructors may also charge a supply fee which
will be paid directly to them at the time of the class.

*    Classes will be held in the usual meeting room at Christ Episcopal
Church unless otherwise announced.   

*    Classes will begin promptly at  10:00 AM and end at  4:00 PM unless
otherwise set by Instructor.  Doors will be opened by 9:30 PM.  Please
arrive early to set up your supplies.

Major workshops update 

5       -   no, make that  6  -  days with Denis Brown 

Sign-up for Denis Brown’s classes in October began at the May meeting.  We are pleased to report that the response was overwhelming.  We almost instantly filled the one day class - Sharpness in Lettering - with a long waiting list.  So - we contacted Denis and he agreed to do an extra day for us and repeat that class.  Therefore, we are very happy to offer Sharpness in Lettering, a repeat of the class already filled, on Wednesday, October 5, 2005.  If you are on the waiting list, or if you did not get a chance to sign up for this class and would like to, or if you would like to change days from Friday, October 7 to Wednesday, October 5, please contact Jill Adams and we will do our best to accommodate everyone.  There are still some spaces in the Gothic Script class.  Experimental Gilding is full, but we always take a waiting list.

 We are also very pleased to report that Denis Brown will be the featured lecturer at the San Antonio Archaeology Society meeting on Tuesday, October 11, 2005, at 7:30 PM, at Trinity University.  This is the evening of the Archaeology Society’s Annual Banquet, and everyone is invited to attend.  The fee for the banquet is $25, which includes drinks from 5:45-6:30, dinner from 6:30-7:30, and then the lecture.  Denis will be speaking about the magnificent Book of Kells, and how its history is reflected in his modern artwork.  We will have further details regarding this event in time for our September meeting.   

~ SAVE THE DATES ~ SAVE THE DATES ~ SAVE THE DATES ~ SAVE THE DATES ~

Lisa Engelbrecht will be here for 5 days next summer, June 5-9, 2006.  So keep this in mind when you make your plans.  Lisa teaches painting and lettering on fabric, and her classes produce some of the most beautiful work, including books made out of canvas.  Both Bonnie Houser and Maggie Gillikin have taken her class at conference, and both give her their highest recommendations.  This is a class for all levels and we are very much looking forward to it.

 Ken Harris will be here in October of 2006.  He teaches a fabulous class on medieval gilding and painting which comes highly recommended by both Bill Waddington and Bonnie Houser who have taken his classes at conference.  This is a 4 day class - 2 days of gilding, followed by 2 days of painting.  It is a class for all levels.   

At this point in time, we believe that Ken will present the program on Thursday, October 5, 2006.  He will teach for 2 weekends - October 7-8 and 14-15, to accommodate those who need the weekend class.  He will repeat those classes during the week for those who prefer a weekday class - October 9-12.  The gilding class must be done before the painting class.  We will give priority to those who prefer all 4 days.  However, after those people have been served, we will then offer the single gilding or painting class to those who prefer only one. 

Ken Harris also will be in San Antonio in December of 2005 (to take a class in faux painting).  We have offered to host a reception for him and he will give a lecture that evening.  The subject is to be announced.  He will be here from the 4th—8th, and the reception will be one of those evenings.  So please save those dates for now, until we settle on the exact date.  It will be a great chance to meet him.  When you see how very knowledgeable and sweet he is, you won’t want to miss any of his classes!

 Class Policies 

The Workshop Committee, the Mini Workshop Committee, and the Saturday Special Committee have all dealt with some difficult issues and events over the past several months.  Therefore, we present these additions to our current policies in an effort to make all of our guild classes as pleasant as possible for all involved.  They have been approved by the Board.  We thank you for reading these policies and for giving them your most careful consideration.

As in the past, in order to prevent confusion and error, only one member of the workshop committee will put names on the class list, maintain the list, accept the class fees, and assign participants to classes when there is a repeat of a class.  She will use a receipt book from now on.  Each participant will receive a receipt stating the class he/she is in and what has been paid.   

 If a participant appears in a class and his/her name is not on the committee’s class list, the participant will be asked for the receipt.  If the receipt indicates that the error is on the part of the participant, that person will be asked to leave the class unless it is not full and the teacher is prepared for that extra student.   

 We ask the guild members to please take the classroom setting seriously.  When we enter the classroom, we immediately enter into a special relationship with the teacher and with our classmates.  We are artists, and we are thus in a situation in which we bare a part of ourselves when we create in a group setting.  Our art and the words we choose to calligraph all say something about us that we don’t necessarily say to everyone.  We trust our teacher to provide constructive critique and to help us to create.  We trust our classmates to do the same.  Just as a school child is intimidated and inhibited when a visitor comes to observe the classroom, so we are intimidated and inhibited when a visitor appears in a class.  Visitors are an invasion of a privacy we expect in the classroom, and therefore are unwelcome.   

 We therefore are asking our members not to visit a classroom unless they are participants in that class.  It is not appropriate to come to the classroom while class is in session in order to visit the teacher or a student.  It is not appropriate to come to the classroom to do any kind of business with the teacher during class time.  It is not appropriate to come to the classroom to check on the supply list for the next class.  Please ask yourself what might happen if 10 other members of the guild just happened to decide to do something similar during the same class.  If the results might seem disruptive to you, then please don’t do it. 

 If you feel you have legitimate business to conduct with the teacher, please contact the teacher prior to his/her arrival and make arrangements to conduct your business outside of the classroom.  Remember that the class participants have paid for the privilege of spending the entire day with the teacher, including the lunch hour.  Remember also that the teacher is often available before and after the meeting on the Thursday evening just prior to the class, and on the Friday before the class.  The teacher is also available in the evening after classes.  In making any such requests to do business with a teacher, please have consideration for him/her and understand that a teacher needs some down time during the course of the stay here. 

The workshop committee members recognize that in the past we have felt that there is no need for anyone other than the teacher to be in charge in the classroom.  We realize now that this is incorrect.  The teacher is here to teach, and not to manage anything else that goes on in the classroom.  The teacher visits many different guilds, all with different workshop policies.  Therefore, the workshop committee members view it as our responsibility to be in charge of what occurs in the classroom.  We are certain that we have no ability to foresee what problems might arise in a workshop, and therefore we will make no attempt to create a list of “don’t’s.”  Rather, we will make every attempt to assure that each participant in a class is afforded the privacy expected in a classroom, the time with the teacher that he/she has paid for, and the best workshop experience we can possibly provide. 

 If we see anyone behaving in a manner that we deem inappropriate for the classroom, we will go to that person and ask that he/she stop whatever it is he/she is doing.  Whenever possible, more than one workshop person will speak with that individual together, so as to avoid any confusion regarding what is said or how it is said.  If there is only one workshop person present, that person will ask whichever board members are present in the class to accompany her in speaking with the offending individual.  If no workshop committee member is in the classroom, we request that the board members present either contact us immediately or accept the responsibility to handle the situation themselves.  We see this as the only way to ensure that everyone in a class has an optimal experience. 

 Finally, we believe that every member of every committee works hard to do his/her job carefully and takes a committee position seriously.  We assume that appointment to a committee indicates the guild’s confidence in a person to do a job as it should be done.  We also hope that it indicates a trust that the job will be done with the best interests of the guild in mind at all times.  So, if any member of the guild questions the actions of a committee member, we ask that you go directly to that individual and ask what and/or why that committee member is behaving as he/she is.  If you are not satisfied with the answer you receive, then by all means it is appropriate to bring your questions or concerns to the president.

Respectfully submitted,

Workshop Committee
Jill Adams, Laura Heye, Joan Schmitz, and Leslie Winakur

Mini Workshop Committee
Joan Cornell

Saturday Special Committee
Betty Lou Jordan

 SUMMER CALLIGRAPHY CLASSES 

Calligraphy classes at Viva Book Store (Mini Mansions) are being planned for the 4 Monday mornings in June from 10 to noon.  Cost is $35 for the 4 classes.  For details, e-mail Joan Schmitz  at:

j.schmitz3246@sbcglobal.net or call her at 344-7675

 Please note Joan’s correct e-mail address (it was incorrect in the last newsletter) - the period after the j does count!

please save this newsletter 

There is a lot of important information in this issue of Flourishes.

  Please keep it for future reference, and save yourself a lot of searching.

 Go right now and put this issue where you will be able to find it in the fall!

 And remember that this information is always on the website.  And lots of it will also be in the new directory.

June/Summer Birthdays

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

Lynn Rothe - July 2
Anita Hyman - July 3
Camille Storment - July 12
Fritzi Harry - July 18
Rosemary Suess - July 18
Nena Richardson - July 20
Gayle Venticinque - July 20
Luz Llera - July 21
Juliet Bickley - July 31
Cristin Gonzales - July 31

Angie Murray - August 2
Hazel Tillson - August 7
Angie Chaos-Peters - August 9
Patricia Parks - August 16
Beverly Carter - August 17
Dolores Schultz - August 17
Jill Adams - August 19
Sharon Halstead 19
Barbara Gere - August 22
Shirley Ginn - August 23
Joan Cornell - August 24
Virginia Harrison - August 26

Photos on the Web

If you have access to the Internet, go to the Flourishes website and admire the photos of SACG members. http://www.axs4u.net/home/inksmith/pp.htm

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