Once again, a planning committee met over the summer to coordinate the major and mini-workshops, the newsletter covers, the Early Bird Specials, and the programs. We hope you find the plans as enticing as we do. September's meeting will be the first of a year full of a vast array of activities. Be sure to be there for the unveiling of the Secret Pals. Please remember to bring everything you received over the summer for the display. This is sure to be a fantastic exhibit.

We have a great lineup of Mini-Workshops scheduled, thanks to B.J. Grant and Gayle Venticinque. Remember to sign up for these. They fill up very fast.

We have a three part Major Workshop with Marsha Brady beginning in September. Sally Gooze has some great programs scheduled for us.

The new calendar will be available at the September meeting, and thanks to Pauline Sager and her committee, we have a beautiful calendar for the year 2000, one we can all be proud of. Jill Adams and her Fund Raising Committee have been working over the summer and have some news for us and some exciting plans for this year.

Maggie Gillikin and Bonnie Houser planned some very interesting Early Bird Specials. Darla Peek is already working hard on our newsletters, and her efforts are much appreciated by all. And, of course, we have some business to attend to. I'm already breathless from just listing all I can remember, and we haven't even begun yet! So, please be sure to come for the September meeting, and come prepared for an evening full of fun, art, business, and, most especially, new and renewed friendships. Looking forward to seeing everyone again,

.................................................................................................Leslie

Early Bird

Secret Pals are the Early Birds this time. Bring ALL the items your Secret Pal sent to you during the summer to put on the display tables and we can begin our evening promptly at 7:00.  

Gallery of Secrets

You are cordially invited to stroll the gallery of secrets at the September meeting, when the Secret Pals will bring all of the wonderful things they've received during the summer. And since a secret can't be kept forever, the pal's identities will be revealed.

Pals, if you can't make the meeting, please be sure to send your goodies for display with a friend, or contact Karen Veni at 558-4403, and she'll make sure your gifts are displayed.

Remember to bring a thank you card for your pal!

Karen Veni
Secret Pal '99

MINI-WORKSHOP

Romans and You!
Pen Written Romans with Carol Patterson
Thursday, September 16th
Warm Springs Baptist Rehabilitation Hospital
5101 Medical Drive
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
$5 for members, $6 for non-members

We are very fortunate to have Carol Patterson teach our first mini-workshop on Pen Written Roman letters. Following is a short supply list. You will also need to bring $2 to cover copying fees for handouts.

1. Sharp pencils with #2 lead
2. Pen staff with C-2 nib
3. Black ink (she recommends Higgins Eternal, or a permanent black ink that is non-waterproof, bring whatever flows freely)
4. 8 1/2" x 11" graph pad - 5 square per inch Ampad, stock #22-022, with dark divisions every inch. 12 sheets of Bienfang Graphics 360 layout paper 11" x 14" or plain copier paper
5. Paper towels
6. Something to take notes on. Ink, nibs and layout paper are available at J.R. Mooney Galleries at 8302 Broadway. Alamo Heights Office Supply at 5204 Broadway can get graph pads with a one-day notice.

Mini-Workshops for 1999-2000

As you know from the mail-out, Gayle Venticinque began signing people up for the mini-workshops at the Calligraphy Exchange. There was a good turnout and lots of folks signed up; however, still have slots available. They are filling very fast, so see her at the September meeting, or mail her a check before then if you want to make sure of your reservations. We are limiting classes to 30 people.

Below is the line up for our 8 mini-workshops that are held at Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital on Medical Drive from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the following Thursdays:

9/16 - Pen Written Romans with Carol Patterson
10/21 - Colored Pencils using Neuland with Bill Waddington
11/18 - Celtic Knots (a no-fail five-minute method) with Leslie Winakur
1/20 - Pointed Brush using Gouache with Barbara Gere
2/17 - Uncial with Maggie Gillikin
3/16 - Copperplate with Joan Schmitz
4/20 - Contemporary Decorated Letters with Bonnie Houser
5/18 - Pointed Italic with Barbara Gere

For all you beginners, here is your chance to learn letterforms and find the one hand that suits your fancy. Very few ever master more than one hand, but find one you like best and practice, practice, practice … or be like most of us and be a jack of all trades and master of none. Just have FUN no matter what!!

B. J. Grant Co-Chairman, Mini-Workshops

Update on Marsha Brady

There are still a few places in the workshop. Call Joan Schmitz at 344-7675 to register.

Sat. & Sun., Sept., 4 & 5

Discovery School at 222 Salem

Sat. & Sun., Oct. 2 & 3
Sat. & Sun., Nov. 6 & 7
No location yet for these two months.

Paper - Suggested size: 17" x 22" or 18" x 24". Joan ordered 50 sheets of each of the suggested papers. Each class member can purchase 2 sheets of any or all kinds if they wish. After every student has a chance to purchase this amount, the remaining sheets will be available for purchase. Call Joan if you want to pick up paper to line in advance.

Birthdays  

1 -Betty Lou Jordan & Nancy McHugh
2 - Joanne Pacelli
5 - Sylvia Stanley
7 - Pam Braha
8 - Deana Voges
10 -Olga Furr
11 - Shawn Behrens
13 - Karen Veni
14 - Karen Daugherty
17 - John Gorup
21 - Betty Reiff & Rosemarie Siebenhausen
22 - Carol Patterson
26 - Loni Carlson
27 - Kaye Yarbrough

Calligraphy Classes  

Drawing and Decorating Versals
with Joan Schmitz
Wed., Sept. 22, 1999
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Michael's
2375 N.W. Military Hwy.
Call 344-7675 for registration info $12
. . .
Brush Marker Workshop

with Barbara Gere
Tues., Sept. 21 & 28, 1999
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Michael's, Windsor Park Centre
6810 Four Winds Drive (in Windcrest)
Call 967-0163 for registration info $25

Sept. 21 learn lower case and Sept. 28 learn upper case. This class is for beginners with no experience. If writing with a brush sounds intimidating, a brush marker might be a good introduction. Practice paper will be provided.

Supplies: Bring brush markers in several colors. The best are "Splash" brush markers, I got mine from Sheryl Hirsch-Kramer. Michael's has the "Zig" brush markers. You can also use the Marvy "Memory Series" brush markers (not Marvy Le Plume II).

Barbara is also teaching other classes at Michael's this year, let her know your preferences.

Calligraphy and Italic Handwriting
with Sylvia Stanley
8 weeks, Tues., 9/28 - 11/16
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Churchill High School on Blanco Road

Class size is limited, register by contacting NEISD at 657-8866 before Sept. 24.

Calligraphy for

Beginners & Intermediates
with Pauline Sager
8 weeks , Tues., 9/28 - 11/16
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Alamo Heights High School
Broadway & Castano

8 weeks, Wed., 9/29 - 11/17
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
12500 N. W. Military Hwy.
(between Braesview & George)

For beginning students, an introduction to semi-formal Italic and exposure to what further study can bring. Intermediate students will learn advanced techniques with Italic (or choice of another alphabet), writing in color and decorative initials. Class size is limited, register by contacting NEISD at 657-8866 before Sept. 24.

Secret Pals 2000

We have a proposition for you. Normally our Secret Pal program runs during the summer months, what if we run the Secret Pal program for a year? A whole year of wonderful secret surprises in your mail box, on your doorstep and via unsuspecting messenger! Think about it and be ready to vote at the October meeting. This is what we have in mind - begin the program in November 1999 and reveal the Pals in November 2000. Send a total of six (6) items to your SP, two with calligraphy. That means something every other month, if you want to look at it that way. Here are some of the opportunities you have when SP runs for a year - birthday, anniversary, and all the major holidays. Other guilds have done this very successfully.
Vicki Belcher and Darla Peek have agreed to be the committee chairs.

Notifications Committee

Just a reminder to call Mavis Caudill with news about Guild members. Mavis will get the Telephone Chain in motion and Thea Moore will get the e-mails routed. The committee has a new name to encompass what they do - they keep us notified … especially when we're between newsletters. We really do appreciate this committee!

Darla Peek

HeartStrings Calendar for 2000
SACG calendar cover created by Pauline Sager

I am pleased to announce "HeartStrings", the SACG calendar for 2000, will be available at the September meeting. This edition has the added touch of being hand bound with color-coordinated cord. A special committee of Maggie, Leslie, Shirley, Beverly, & yours truly, spent 6 hours one Saturday in August, collating and folding the 2,400 sheets to yield 300 copies, and bound 100. The following Monday, Anita, Maggie, Beverly and Leslie bound the remaining 200 copies. A lot of work went in to make this a special edition, but everyone had fun. This is what it's all about - working together in teams to produce a handsome result.

I wish to express my appreciation to everyone who made the calendar possible. The contributors who submitted the beautiful artwork: Jane Fair, Barbara Gere, Maggie Gillikin, Bonnie Houser, Vera Irby, Darla Peek, Helen Rasplicka, Eleanor Russell, Joan Schmitz, Sylvia Stanley, Gayle Ventincique, Leslie Winakur and Kaye Yarbrough. The calendar committee members: Jill Adams, for compiling the quotes for the month pages; Hazel Tillson, the forward page; Barbara Gere, pasting in all the dates, holidays, and quote strips for every month; and Sylvia Stanley for proofreading. A big THANK YOU!

Pauline Sager
Y2K Calendar Editor

  Calendars are $6.50 each including tax.
Contact Pauline Sager to purchase calendars, e-mail: Pavasa@aol.com

Fran Sloan

was an unbelievably positive force within the calligraphic community. Not only a talented artist and calligrapher, Fran also inspired and enriched our lives through her teaching, lecturing, writing, and championing of the cause of calligraphy within the art community. Through her AHA experiences, the lives of many calligraphers were uplifted and rejuvinated. Her death on December 9, 1998 caused many of us to pause and remember with fondness her influence on our vocation and in our guilds.

Since her death many of you have asked that the ACA recognize Fran's contributions to our lives by creating a Memorial Fund in her honor.

In response to these requests, the ACA has established The Fran Sloan Memorial Fund to commemorate Fran's AHA spirit and to attempt to continue her work in bringing the joy of lettering to all. We have many different ideas on the best way to use this Fund, including scholarships, a library, an ACA permanent calligraphic collection which could be made available for appropriate exhibits (and would of course include some of Fran's work), teaching guides, and other educational purposes. We also welcome your suggestions. How much we will be able to do is of course entirely dependent upon the donations made to the fund. If donations are limited, we will create a scholarship or other benefit to the community. However, it is the desire of the ACA to establish The Fran Sloan Memorial Fund as a long-term charity, benefiting many for years to come.

Donations of any size are most welcome in Fran's memory, or in the memory of other beloved calligraphers. Everyone who donates to The Fran Sloan Memorial Find will be listed in a tribute book which will be designed and hand lettered by Fran's friend Carol Dubosh. The book will be in an accordion fold format and will be on display at both 1999 Calligraphy Conferences and at future events. The first fifty people making a donation to the fund of $50.00 or more will receive a beautiful print of Fran's work.

Gifts to the ACA Foundation and The Fran Sloan Memorial Fund are charitable contributions and can be deducted on United States income tax statements as charitable contributions.  

Please make checks payable in U.S. Funds to: Foundation of the Calligraphics Arts

Mail to: ACA, 132 Great Road, Suite 200, Stow, MA 01775 USA, for information, phone: 978-461-0400 or e-mail: abc@calligraphicarts.org Website: www.calligraphicarts.org

There will be extra copies of the forms at the Sept meeting.

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