2010
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January 2010
Membership renewals due!
03 Sunday • 2-5 p.m. • Holiday Open House • Donya Wyffels and Cliff Mansley • See News page for details
11 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Our first meeting of 2010 will be an invitation to bring your favorite holidays cards and ideas for future meetings. We would love to see a display of creative and calligraphic cards you have either made or received. We have so many talented folks and we want to hear what you want to hear and learn at PSC this year.
February 2010
Don't forget: membership renewals due!
08 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Envelope Art! Join us for the fun as Carol DuBosch presents the many possibilities for using your art to make unique envelopes for your everyday mail! We all love to see our name "in lights," and creatively addressing envelopes to friends and family is a great way to let them shine and know they are special. Carol will discuss simple techniques to make your mail a piece of art and share her large collection of decorated envelopes. In addition, she will bring a library of resources for "Envelope Art" ideas, also letting you peek at her many boxes of vintage postage stamps. Vintage postage can be an excellent design element for envelopes as well as quick visual inspiration for layout ideas. She will also demonstrate how to make simple envelopes from unique paper, and share patterns. Carol regularly enters and wins awards in the annual Graceful Envelope Contest, sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Washington D.C. Calligraphers Guild. She will bring her layouts and the copies of her winning entries, along with her new 2010 entry.
Top Ten Reasons for Lettering Envelopes
1. You never have to decide what to write (names & addresses are a given).
2. Nobody will be offended by your choice of words.
3. Choosing the right paper isn't a problem - commercial envelopes are just fine.
4. Only knowing one letter style is not a problem.
5. You have a practical place to try out new "hands."
6. You can quickly get your efforts out of view - pop them in the mail.
...for 7, 8, 9, 10 and MORE join us for Carol DuBosch's presentation of "Envelope Art"!
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19-21 Menucha Retreat • Sharing our Creative Spirit! • We invite you to come and share in the relaxing and stimulating weekend that has been so special to all of us for so many years. New participants are welcome to come enjoy this amazing weekend of sharing with fellow calligraphers.
March 2010
New membership rosters should be arriving soon.
01 Monday • 12-1:30 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • Meri's house
08 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Healthy Hands. Calligrapher/Nurse Nancy Grossenbacher will be teaching us to take care of our precious workhorses, our hands. Nancy is an expert at hand surgery and recovery and has lectured on the importance of hand health to many audiences including artists and gardeners. This practical and ergonomic presentation is so important to start a healthy New Year for us all.
13 Saturday • Copperplate 101 with Donya Wyffels {this workshop is full!} • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Location: PCC Sylvania Library
22Monday • 12-1:30 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • Meri's house{this meeting has moved to April 05}
April 2010
05 Monday • 12-1:30 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • Meri's house
10-11 Saturday & Sunday • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Workshop: Finding the Flow with Gina Jonas • Hudson’s Bay High School, Vancouver
12 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Connie McConnell hands-on accordion cards
15 Thursday • Deadline to submit to Word Dance, a PSC juried calligraphic exhibit at Doll Gardner Gallery.
26 Monday • 12-1:30 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • Location TBD
27-28 Tuesday & Wednesday • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Great Northwest Shopping Tour and mini workshops with Brenda Broadbent • Lakewood Center, Lake Oswego
30 -May 01 • Letters of Joy • Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA • Georgia Deaver, keynote speaker
May 2010
01Saturday • 12:30-2 p.m. • Word Dance opening reception at Doll Gardner Gallery{this date has moved to May 02}02 Sunday • 12:15-2 p.m. • Word Dance opening reception at Doll Gardner Gallery
10 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Handcrafting Cards. Cut, score, fold . . . PRESTO -- Let's make cards for integrating with our calligraphy. Sandy Van Valin, former president of Valley Calligraphy Guild, will bring samples, patterns and kits to do. Bring a small cutting mat, metal ruler, pencil, bone folder, exacto knife and/or scissors.
13-14 Thursday & Friday • Layered Calligraphy: Text Into Texture with Denis Brown • Location: TBA
14 Friday • 7 p.m. • Carrying Tradition in a Digital World with Denis Brown • Location: PCC Sylvania Campus, Building ST Room 101 • FREE!
15-16 Saturday & Sunday • Painterly Techniques with Denis Brown • Location: Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA
24 Monday • 12-1:30 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • Location TBD
30 Sunday • Word Dance exhibit closes
June 2010
5-6 Saturday & Sunday • Workshop: More Paste Paper with Rosie Kelly • Time TBD • Location: Hudson’s Bay High School, Vancouver
14 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Tim Leigh will present "Tim's Top Ten Tips for Left Handed Writers." He is a talented writer and story teller as well as an excellent craft's person who makes his own brand of folded metal pens with custom wood handles, truly a work in art themselves. Tim will regale us with the stories of his writing experience which is applicable to all calligraphers, right and left handers. Tim will demo his wonderful pens as well as show his meticulous class binders and examples of his work. You will be inspired! Also be ready to test drive Tim's amazing folded pens. Come try your hand with a unique pen used by a variety of artists!
Tim writes: "Time was, responsible calligraphy instructors culled left-handed students from their classes and sent them home with the admonition "your handicap will impede success here, so you'd best find another pursuit." These days, that's less the case, so when Tim Leigh reported to Rebecca Wild some years ago for tutoring in letters, he was encouraged to "find his way." Which turned into an odyssey of sorts through smeared forms, backward strokes, paper twists, flourishes that began where they should end, and discovery of the utility of heat guns. Since then, Tim has been schooled further by Rebecca, Colleen Cavin, Carol DuBosch and Thomas Hoyer. And the letters he makes, while not perfect, give hope to those who write from the other side. Come see how it works. Tim will discuss and demonstrate left-handed writing, show the class journals he painstakingly makes and keeps, provide a close-up at the folded metal pens he crafts, and show a few samples of completed work. A caveat: There are no guarantees other than the presentation will be interesting. After all, Tim is still just a student."
28 Monday • 12-1:30 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • Location TBD
July 2010
No monthly meeting scheduled
17-18 Saturday & Sunday • Workshop: Pointed Brush with Carol DuBosch • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Location PCC Sylvania, HT Building, Room 323
24-31Odyssey 2010 • 30th International Gathering of Lettering Artists • Stonehill College, Boston, Massachusetts
August 2010
No monthly meeting scheduled
13 & 14 Friday & Saturday • Oregon Art Annual artwork due
22 Sunday • 5:30 a.m. • The Portland Triathlon is requesting the help of our wonderful calligraphers again this year. The triathlon is Sunday, August 22 -- bright and early at 5:30 a.m.! This is your opportunity to write on "living vellum" and experience a high energy event. If you can join in the early morning fun please reply to meriscribe@comcast.net.
26 Thursday • Oregon Art Annual Artist Reception • Oregon State Fair: Hart of the Garden building • Salem • 7-9 PM. Award winners will be announced that evening at 8 PM.
24 - Sept. 06 Oregon Art Annual • Oregon State Fair: Hart of the Garden building • Salem • Demonstrations and exhibit
September 2010
13 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC monthly meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Show & Share: What I did on my Summer Vacation!
October 2010
09 Saturday • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • All Oregon Calligraphers Conference • Sweet Home, OR • Please join the Sweet Home Bunch for the 2010 All Oregon Calligraphers Conference. The day will include morning hospitality, vendors, goodie bags, envelope competition, announcements, keynote address by Inga Dubay, lunch and your choice of one afternoon workshop. Saturday, October 9, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Sweet Home High School Activity Gym (1641 Long Street, Sweet Home, OR). For more information and registration, review the flyer.
11 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC monthly meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: An evening of animated poetry. "From Classical Greeks to Computer Geeks: How Poets, Book Artists and Animators Shape Time and Space with Visible Language." PSC member Marilyn Zornado will give a visual presentation of her thesis for Master of Fine Arts & show a sneak peek of the short animated film she created in the program.
16 Saturday • 9 a.m.-1 p.m. • PSC Serendipitous Studio Sale • West Linn at the home of Elaine Young • The Portland Society for Calligraphy is having a studio sale. A few members are downsizing, some are doing some weeding out and we invite you to join us. You may bring what you wish to sell or you may come to buy. Friends are always welcome! Check the News page for details.
23-24 Saturda-Sunday • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Improv Studio with Judy Melvin • Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA • If you are interested in something other than a structured class, have drawers of unfinished work or just want to be nudged to a new level come explore with Judy Melvin.
November 2010
08 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC monthly meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Modern Medievals: Christi Payne started her calligraphy practice 35 years ago studying with Fran Strom at the Oregon School of Arts & Crafts. A workshop with Mark Van Stone and medieval illumination techniques during the ’80s headed her off in new (old) directions. Christi will talk about her love of medievals and share her latest book: see the flyer for more details.
December 2010
13 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC monthly meeting • Calvin Hall at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Please join us for a wee bit of holiday cheer, our annual meeting which includes the election of officers, and a hands on activity. We promise to keep the meeting part brief. Then Carol DuBosch will share her favorite new structure for books and cards that is easy, versatile, and intriguing. The structure, The Snowflake Book, was featured in Bound & Lettered earlier this year. Carol will share her many examples of the book, and explain how a greeting card can easily be made in the same form. Join us for hand-ons fun! Please bring a glue stick and scissors. Carol also promises to share a few details of her recent journey to the home of Sheila Waters for a week long class.