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Hart is teaching the following courses:
Exploring Watercolor
Begins Jan. 30
6 weeks, 7-9 PM
Wednesdays Jenks Senior Center, Winchester www.jenkscenter.org
If you think watercolors are limited to postcard scenes
and depictions of floral bouquets, think again! This class will
explore the potential of watercolors in
a series of structured exercises which will emphasize color and design.
You do not need experience in painting or drawing to take this class...be
prepared to try new techniques, heed your creative instincts
and have a lot of fun as we delve into the many ways of
putting watercolor to paper. Supplies List to be mailed
Calligraphy
1 Italic Hand Art
135 - 30 3 cr.
Wednesday Afternoons 1:30 - 4:15 PM
Middlesex Community College Bedford MA
Get college credit for Calligraphy!
This course covers the basics of Italic Hand, with special
emphasis on form and practice. We begin with pen exercises and
go from there to letterforms, then layout and page design, and
finally color and composition. Once the basics are covered students
work at their own pace, with complexity and additional letterforms
learned. Attention is paid to the process of making art - expression
of creative ideas and working through sketch to layout to finished
artwork. Bedford is a nice quiet little campus midway between Burlington
and Lowell. You can register online through Middlesex community
college website, or contact Mary for details at hartm@middlesex.mass.edu
If you already know italic, you may want to take Calligraphy 2,
which meets at the same time, but you will work on another writing
style of your own choosing and apply it to the projects and assignments.
register online at Middlenet www.middlesex.mass.edu.
Introduction to Pointed Nib Pens
Beautiful writing for artists and journal keepers
Class Code: MHCL
Cambridge Center for Adult Education 4 sessions
Tuesdays 5:45 - 7:45 PM Begins Feb. 12
Learn the basics of writing with the crowquill pen. This class
will include instruction in how the oblique pen works, with with
practice in basic strokes and letters. It is a beginning class
with emphasis on letterforms and developing skill, not finished
artwork. We will discuss papers, inks and pens and if you have
a favorite fountain pen, bring it along. www.ccae.org to
register
C.A. Millner is offering
classes for the fall
For information call 508-883-3435 or write camillner@comcast.net.
Italic lettering
Silk and Clay studio, Boxborough, MA.
Thursdays, 9:30 - 12:30,
October 4 - November 15
www.silkandclay.com
Uncial lettering
at her studio, Bellingham, MA,
Wednesdays,
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.,
October 3 - November 14
Jane Parillo is offering 2 classes in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Contact the North kingstown Arts Council (or Jane) for details -
www.nkartscouncil.org or jane@janeparilloscribe.com
A class for handwriting using the Italic model
Mondays, 4 weeks starting Sept. 24, from 6:30-9:30
Introduction to the Italic Hand
Tuesdays - 7 weeks starting Sept. 25
Calligraphy Courses
at The
Abbey Studio - Fall 2007
For information, please contact:
Maryanne Grebenstein, 781-740-9000
The Abbey Studio, Hingham, MA
www.theabbeystudio.com
Italic Lettering (formerly Introduction to Calligraphy)
4 class times:
Thurs & Fri 10:00 - 1:00 Sept 13 & 14
Mon & Wed 6:00 - 9:00 Sept 24 & 26
Saturdays 10:00 - 1:00 Oct 13 & 20
Saturdays 10:00 - 1:00 Dec
1 & 8
This course is designed for students with little
or no experience using a broad-edged (chisel point) pen for lettering.
We will study the Italic alphabet in detail, learning about pen
angle and letter proportion. This beautiful hand, which evolved
in fifteenth century Italy, can be used for creating greeting cards & invitations,
one-of-a-kind pieces of poetry & scripture, and many varied
gift applications. $200. To purchase supplies through studio, please
add $75 to course fee
Italic & Foundational (formerly Intermediate Calligraphy)
Sat & Sun 10:00 - 2:00 Sept 29 & 30
This course is designed as the follow-up to Introduction to Calligraphy.
A review of the Italic alphabet will be followed by the introduction
of the Foundational hand. Two hours of instruction will be followed
by one hour of studio time. The course will culminate with a final
project incorporating the two lettering styles. $250. To purchase
supplies through studio, please add $75 to course fee.
Hand Lettering – Five Styles
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 1:00 Oct 22-26
In this course we will cover the five basic lettering styles
which are created using a broad-edged pen. Uncial lettering,
which was used during the sixth through ninth centuries, Carolingian
from the ninth and tenth centuries, Gothic from the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries, Italic from the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, and Foundational, which developed in the twentieth
century, well after the advent of the printing press. Two hours
of instruction will be followed by one hour of studio time.
$375. To purchase supplies through studio, please add $75 to
course fee
Copperplate Script
2 class times:
Saturdays 10:00 - noon Sept 8 & 15 or Mon & Wed 7:00 -
9:00 Oct 8 & 10
This beautiful Victorian-era script is perfect for wedding invitations,
formal table accessories such as place cards, and as an accompaniment
to broad-edged lettering on scrolls. $150. To purchase supplies
through studio, please add $20 to course fee
Quill Cutting
Saturday 2:00 - 5:00
Sept 15
New this fall!! This one-day course will instruct students in
the cutting of goose quills for use in calligraphic lettering.
$100. To purchase supplies through studio, please add $20 to course
fee
Roman Caps
Sunday 9:00 - 4:00 Sept 16
New this fall!! This intensive one-day
workshop will guide students through the intricacies of creating
Roman Capital letters with a broad-edged pen. These beautiful
letters are useful for headings and certificate personalizations.
This course is recommended for students already possessing basic
knowledge of calligraphic lettering. $200. To purchase supplies through
studio, please add $50 to course fee
Getting to Know the Book of Kells
Mondays 7:00 - 9:00 Oct 15 & 22
This unusual course begins
with a detailed slide presentation explaining the history of
The Book of Kells and its overall layout plan. Following the
slide presentation, a class on the Uncial hand (used in the Book
of Kells) will take place. The last segment of the course will
consist of the recreation of one of the pages from the book by
each student. $200
Manuscript Gilding
Mondays 10:00 - 1:00 Nov 12 & 19
Students will be taught the
technique of gilding (on paper and vellum) and the use of gouache
to create beautiful artwork reminiscent of Renaissance manuscripts.
Karat gold leaf will be applied to gesso and burnished to create
a brilliant “illumination” of
the page. $250
Layout and Design
Fri, Sat & Sun 10:00 - noon, Nov 9, 10 & 11
Once some experience
in hand lettering has been achieved, the next step is learning
to create an inviting and interesting layout for your piece. In
this course, we will study basic layout and design principles and
how they can be applied to projects of interest to the calligrapher,
such as quotations, invitations, awards and logos. Beginning with
printed text, we will work through thumbnail sketches, refining
lettering size and line spacing, utilizing contrasting letter styles
and sizes, and ultimately creating a finished piece. The use of
gouache for color, as well as metallic paints for decoration will
be included in the course. This course is a great prep for the
invitation course! $200
Invitation/Greeting
Card Design
Wed & Thurs 10:00 - 1:00 Nov 14 & 15
Anxious to create your
own (or a friend’s) wedding invitation
but not sure where to begin? Or perhaps you have a great idea in
mind for a holiday or greeting card but you’re not sure how
to go about having it printed? This course is for the calligrapher
who is ready to advance into some graphic applications for calligraphy.
We’ll cover preparing lettering for printing, how to make
a mechanical for printing purposes, color selection, and paper
selection. Two hours of instruction will be followed by one hour
of studio time. $200
Wells Book Arts Center Summer
Institute - 2008 courses
At our institute we teach courses in letterpress printing,
hand bookbinding, and lettering arts both by hand and at the computer.
We offer housing on campus in an air conditioned dorm and meals
catered by a local gourmet bistro. Our instructors are among the
top in their fields, both here and in Europe.
July
6-12 - First Session
All at the introductory level, and these faculty members are the
first ones to come back to Wells as second-time teachers. Peter
Bain, proprietor of the design firm Incipit, will teach `Stems
and Beziers: An Introduction to Typeface Design' using TypeTool
for its simplicity in design and production process; basic knowledge
of Illustrator is recommended. Cheryl Jacobsen's course `Basic
Italic Calligraphy,' will introduce participants to this elegant
and versatile hand that is a good starting point for continued
study of other hands; Cheryl teaches calligraphy at the Iowa Center
for the Book. Shanna Leino's
class will explore the balance between technical aspects and conceptual
development in her course `Making Books: the Beginning!' Shanna
teaches at the University of Georgia's arts program in Cortona,
Italy. Katherine McCanless Ruffin, the Book Arts Program Director
at Wellesley, invites you to come get inky in her course `Letterpress
Printing From A to Z.' These introductory courses are great as
stand-alone courses, but they also serve as terrific introductions
to the courses in the next three sessions.
July 13-19 - Session 2
Courses for the novice and the more advanced. Keiji Shinohara,
who teaches printmaking at Wesleyan
University, is offering our first course to include Japanese printmaking.
Students in `East Meets West: Traditional Japanese Printmaking
and Western Techniques' will learn traditional wood block carving
techniques along with various printing processes, all by hand.
Dolph Smith, widely known for books that are anything but static,
will teach `Moving Parts: The Book as Kinetic Sculpture' in which
students will take advantage of all 22 possible moving parts in
a 20-page book. Ewan Clayton will join us from his native England,
where he is Professor of Design at the University of Sunderland,
to teach a course on uncials entitled `Calligraphy: The Dynamics
of Movement.' Participants will create a portfolio of pieces that
explore the beauty and versatility of uncials.
July 20-26 - Session 3
Our faculty are Inge Bruggeman, Anna Embree and Sara Soskolne.
Inge, who teaches book arts at the
Oregon College of Arts and Craft, will teach `Considering Text
and Image,' in which students will use hand-set type and various
letterpress image-making techniques as they examine the relationship
between printed text and image. Anna teaches binding in the book
arts program at the University of Alabama, and her class in `Boxed
In: Creating Custom-built Enclosures' will learn to make boxes
for individual objects, items of unusual shape, or larger collections
of materials. Sara, a designer at New York's Hoefler & Frere-Jones
foundry, will teach her typography students the joy of digital
type design in `More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Turning Letters
into a Typeface.'
July 27-August 2 - Session 4
Include classes in letterpress printing, leather binding and calligraphy.
Rachel Wiecking, Wells' fifth Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book
Arts, will teach a printing course using Wells' collection of wood
type, focusing on alternative printing techniques. The course taught
by Monqiue Lallier, Director of the American Academy of Bookbinding,
will be on leather binding in the French tradition. And Brody Neuenschwander,
renowned Bruges-based calligrapher, will teach a course that explores
text-based art using calligraphy and mixed media.
Whether you come to explore a new area or to gain experience in
an area you already work in, we are certain that you'll learn a
lot, enjoy the camaraderie of other book artists, and revel in
a week (or more!) of class with distinguished teachers in the book
arts. Our website is being redesigned to make it easier to navigate;
we'll announce its grand opening soon. In the meantime, you can
contact the Book Arts Center at 315-364-3420 or via email at dstefanko@wells.edu.
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