2009
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January 2009
Membership renewals due!
12 Monday • 5:30 p.m.• PSC Board Meeting • Location: Marco's in Multnomah Village, dinner meeting prior to PSC monthly meeting
12 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Topic: Roman Capitals in Lyon, France • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
24 Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty will present their final handwriting improvement workshop sponsored by Portland State University/Continuing Education Press. It will be held in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom from 10 am-1 pm on Saturday, January 24, 2009. An RSVP to press@pdx.edu or 503.725.4891, toll free 1.866.647.7377 is requested to assess seating and materials requirements. For the flyer with complete information please go to: http://www.cep.pdx.edu/seminars/
February 2009
Don't forget: membership renewals due!
6 Monday • 6 p.m. • PSC Board Meeting • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Little Chapel
6 Monday • 7-8:30 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • Topic: Suzanne Moore lecture • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
7-8 Elucidare: Concepts, Form and Techniques of Page Design with Suzanne Moore • Hudson’s Bay High School • Vancouver, WA
20-22 Friday-Sunday • Annual Menucha Retreat • featuring watercolor with Flo (Cole) Wilkins
TBA Newsletter deadline
March 2009
Newsletter & new membership rosters out
9 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting: Nominations for Officers • Topic: "Initial Bling: illuminated calligraphy" • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Please join us as Colleen Cavin shares work from her 2009 show, "Initial Bling: illuminated calligraphy." Colleen will share her process, materials, experimentation, frustration and excitation while working with gold.
14-15 Twist of the Pointed Pen workshop with Barbara Close • Location TBA
24 Registration for "Letters of Joy" conference begins. • Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA• Friday, May 1, 2009 from 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. through Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. • Write On Calligraphers, a non-profit arts organization based in Edmonds Washington, announces its 27th annual Letters of Joy, a popular festival for calligraphers and paper artists. The two-day mini-conference features keynote speaker Lisa Englebrecht and a wide range of classes for all levels of paper arts enthusiasts, as well as a silent auction, vendors, and exhibits.
TBA Board meeting
April 2009
3 Friday • Volunteer Opportunity: filling in certificates for Portland State University Science Fair for Middle and High Schoolers • Two shifts: 1-4 p.m. or 4-6:30 p.m. • PSU Campus • Contact Colleen Cavin: 503-287-0999 or cavinbello@mac.com12 Happy Easter!
13 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Annual Meeting & Election of officers • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Please join us for our annual meeting (a very short business meeting to elect officers) and inspiring program. Come create Zentangles with Amy Pfleiger -- we will create 2-5 Zentangles in this session. Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. A Zentangle tile is 3 1/2 inches square, and will be provided. Please bring a black micron Pen if you have them. Ideal sizes would be 01 -03. Amy Pfleiger has over 10 years of Calligraphy experience. She recently traveled to Whitinsville, Massachusetts to participate in the Zentangle teacher training. Since that time she has been obsessed with these designs!
18-19 Drawing for Calligraphers workshop with Kristin Doty • Location TBA
25 Saturday • Capital Calligraphers offers Uncial Workshop with Carol Dubosch • Capital Manor Community Center, West Salem
28-29 Tuesday-Wednesday • Two workshops and shopping with Paper & Ink Arts • Lakewood Center, 368 S. State Street, Lake Oswego • Hours: Tuesday 11:00 - 4:30 p.m.; Wednesday 11-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. (Please observe these hours as we are sharing a space with an ongoing class.) Check the News page for more details.
May 2009
1-2 "Letters of Joy" conference • Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA• Friday, May 1, 2009 from 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. through Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
11 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Annual Meeting & Election of officers • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
25 Happy Memorial Day!
30-31 Recycling Our Stash workshop with Rosie Kelly[cancelled!]
June 2009
8 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Annual Meeting & Election of officers • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Please join us as we share this inspiring, thought provoking documentary: M.C. Richards: The Fire Within. A love poet's adventure into the source of our creativity. M.C. Richards' extraordinary career, stretching from Black Mountain College to Creation Spirituality, from Rudolf Steiner advocate to philosophical artist, continues in spite of her death in 1999. In front of our very eyes we see M.C. engaging in contemplative questioning regarding the nature of art, imagination, wholeness, community, and our place in the cosmos."
11-12 Versals, Pastels… then GOLD workshop with Colleen Cavin
20-27 Calligraphy Connection Conference • Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota • http://www.2009calligraphyconference.com/
July 2009
No monthly meeting scheduled
18-19 Brush Calligraphy workshop with Carol DuBosch
August 2009
No monthly meeting scheduled
15-16 Bone: Copperplate with a Twist workshop with Carol DuBosch
23 The Portland Triathlon is again seeking calligraphers to number the legs and arms of its athletes. This is the only city in the world to do so! It's a very early but rewarding opportunity Sunday, August 23 at 5:30 a.m. Copic markers provided. Contact Meri Taylor if interested.
September 2009
12-13 Black Magic workshop with Roann Mathias • Hudson's Bay High School, 1206 E Reserve St. Vancouver, WA
14 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: September Sharing. Share examples and a report of a class, workshop, conference, entry to the State Fair or any other recent art adventure. Here is your opportunity to share your calligraphic and other adventures with our community. A great chance to be a voyeur for those of you who didn't have an art adventure. Now is the time. We'll have tables ready to display your examples. Let's celebrate our generous, creative and inquizitive members. As an added bonus, John Neal Booksellers have gifted each attendee with a free copy of a recent Letter Arts Review.
25 Friday • 7 p.m. • Michael Sull free public lecture: "The Golden Age of Penmanship" • sponsored by Write On Calligraphers • located at Art Works: 201 2nd Ave. S. Edmonds, WA
26-27 Saturday & Sunday • Michael Sull Spencerian Penmanship workshop • sponsored by Write On Calligraphers • located at Art Works: 201 2nd Ave. S. Edmonds, WA • For workshop information please contact Brigitte Hefferan at brigittehefferan@msn.com
October 2009
12 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Join Cynthia Schubert for a demonstration and hands-on experience with Calligraphy and Cold Wax: experimenting with oil media. Cynthia Schubert teaches Calligraphy and IB Visual Art at Hillsboro High School. She has shown her work locally and in 2005 a piece of hers using cold wax and oil was published in Letter Arts Review. She will share techniques using cold wax, galkyd and oil paint on a variety of surfaces. Come enjoy the examples of her work using cold wax and a demonstration of sgraffito, palette knife and monotype techniques on paper, wood and gesso surfaces. Roll up your sleeves and experience these techniques yourself. Please bring two containers with lids, such as a yogurt or cottage cheese tub; rag or shop towels; palette knives if you have them—metal trowel type are best; putty knife if you have one; oil brushes; pencils; sgraffito tools; tubes of your favorite oil colors, if you have them. The Society will provide 300 lb watercolor paper, wax, galkyd and odorless mineral spirits. You may want to bring other heavy paper that has been gessoed for more experiments, scraps of birch plywood, or gessoed panels, whatever you may have under the bed. You can work on top of discarded watercolor pieces, too.
24 All Oregon Calligraphers Conference • Western Oregon University, Werner University Center • Monmouth, OR just west of Salem • The day will include morning hospitality, music, vendors, Beautiful Envelope competition, short general meeting, keynote address given by Laurie Doctor, lunch, and your choice of one afternoon class. Keynote speaker Laurie Doctor taught in the Visual Arts Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, for over twenty years. She now lives on a nature reserve in Kentucky where she works as a painter, writer and international teacher. Her work combines rich color, images, and abstraction to express the invisible.
27 Annual Open Show entries due!
November 2009
01 Annual Open Show opening & artist reception • Sunday • 2-4 p.m. • West Linn Public Library • Show runs until November 30
09 Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: Carol Dubosch: The Pop-Can Pen and its Expressive Potential. These pens are simple to make and simple to use and promote expressive writing from the very first marks on the page. In a side-by-side comparison with commercial folded pens, the "pop-can pen" is preferred by my students. These pens are likely to become your favorite writing tool. Folded pen script is easy to learn and has a unique and expressive contemporary feel. By custom- making your pens, you'll be able to fit the pen to your hand and also to the "look" of the letters you want to create.
14 The Mysteries of Masking: How To Use Masking With Your Lettering with Christine Colasurdo
30 Annual Open Show closes & artwork pickup • Monday • 11 a.m. • West Linn Public Library
December 2009
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Monday • 7-9 p.m. • PSC Monthly Meeting • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church • Topic: TBA[cancelled]