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The Journal is the Destination: A Personal Approach to Calligraphy with Sharon Zeugin
Level: All
Saturday & Sunday,
April 19 & 20, 2008, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: PCC Sylvania Campus, CT Bldg Room 125
$90 PSC members
$115 non-members ($25 membership
included: please include a completed membership
form when registering)
Materials fee included
Sponsored by the Portland Society for Calligraphy
This class provides a way for creative expression of themes and topics that move us personally. Through journals, we have a unique opportunity to discover what we want to say and how we want to say it in our calligraphic art. In approaching the blank pages of a book we can begin to experience the joy of play and experimentation, and to experience the freedom of creating whatever we choose, without a particular agenda. A calligraphic journal can be experienced as a process — a way of self discovery through visually expressing one's feelings, thoughts and ideas. Throughout the course students will be offered a series of "jumping off" exercises designed to help lessen fear, and to ease their way into their blank books. Included among these will be improvisational writing an visual journal prompts and techniques, music and group collaborations and discussions The aim is to begin a process which participants will continue beyond the class. In addition to working in blank books, students will have the opportunity to bind a simple journal.
About the instructor: Sharon Zeugin lives in Austin, Texas. In addition to calligraphy and teaching, Sharon's passions include her family, NIA (dance), yoga, running, tennis, swimming, walking, Jungian psychology, spiritual inquiry, fine art, drawing, nature and music. For the past several years, Sharon has explored journals as a medium of artistic expression. As a teacher, Sharon is most interested in helping others overcome their fear of the blank page.