Number 122 • March 2016 Letter from the President

FOC Council Members Hello Friends of Calligraphy! energy ensuring that these events are made available for the Friends I’m seeing the first signs of Spring President everywhere I look and, even of Calligraphy membership. A Gina Vasquez though we could really use more huge thank you to all! rain here in the Bay Area, spring Vice President This Spring may the joy of a letter, has sprung! Elena Caruthers a brush stroke or ink mark open Treasurer As with Spring, Friends of your heart. Happy Spring! Dean Robino Calligraphy activities are blooming everywhere. February Gina Secretary brought us Copperplate with Dedicated Calligraphers Jerry Lehman Melissa Titone, at Fort Mason, Council Members and Christopher Haanes’ Roman Little Brothers, Friends of the Martha Boccalini Capitals workshop and lecture. Elderly, an international Evelyn Eldridge March brought us the Annual organziation, started over Sonja Hernandez Spring Retreat, and Foundational 70 years ago in France—is Elizabeth Nisperos at Fort Mason, with instructor alive and well with Friends of Dorothy Yuki Chris MacDonald. Calligraphy. Introduced here by Anne Yamasaki, Jerry Lehman Alphabet Editor April, in addition to showers, will has taken over this job which Carl Rohrs offer workshops with Rebecca involves addressing an envelope Wild, and a dual workshop with and including a birthday card � Thomas Ingmire and David Bulletin Editor with a personalized message Nancy Noble Annwn, a poet from Wales. for isolated elders. Several FOC In May, Friends of Calligraphy members have particiapted in this will hold the 41st Annual General project, providing each one of the Note: To view the Bulletin in color, visit: Meeting, featuring keynote elders with a gorgeous card. Each www.friendsofcalligraphy.org/pages/ month, Jerry collects and mails a publications.html speaker Rob Saunders of the Letterform Archive. Oh, and if all stack of birthday cards containing that isn’t enough, Pamela Paulsrud beautiful calligraphy/artwork with will teach our Summer Workshop a personalized message. Marcia in July. It’s a veritable bouquet of Friedman workshops, classes and creative designed the pursuits. message of the card shown There are many people that here. If you are make this happen: the Fort interested in Mason Committee, workshop participating, coordinators, and other key please contact people who spend time and Jerry. March 2016 Letterform Archive By: Simran Thadani

Introducing Letterform Archive

In a light-filled loft at the eastern edge of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood is a feast for the calligrapher’s eye and mind: Letterform Archive, a new library and museum dedicated to inspiration and education in the letter arts. Interested visitors, whatever their backgrounds or levels of expertise, are welcome to use the collection, which comprises 30,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy and graphic design, spanning 2,000 years of history. Koch Manuscript: Rudolf Koch, The collection includes books, posters, journals, maquettes, Der Knabe und das Immlein, 7 5/8 x 12 1/2” prints and drawings, as well as thousands of pieces of ephemera Poem by Eduard Mörike Ofenbach, 1912, Calligraphic Manuscript on Paper such as labels and stamps. Together, these works chronicle the history and diversity of letterforms, and highlight innovation in longstanding written traditions. In the area of handmade letters, the collection includes a clay cuneiform tablet, medieval manuscripts, Renaissance books of hours, handwriting manuals, psychedelic posters, and broadsides and book covers by 20th- century artists.

Longtime FOC member Rob Saunders is the founder and curator of Letterform Archive, having lovingly assembled the collection over 40 years. He established the nonprofit in mid-2014 as a way to share this collection—and his passion—with the public. Since officially opening in February 2015, the Archive has hosted Fillmore Handbills: Wes Wilson, Fillmore Auditorium Handbills, numerous visits, classes, workshops, meals, and receptions, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2” & 8 x 4 1/2” San Francisco, 1967, welcoming over 1,000 visitors from 23 countries. Lettering Reproduced by Offset Lithography

Rob will address the Annual General Meeting of the Friends on Sunday, May 1st, sharing how the Archive has grown from vision into reality. Soon after, on Thursday, May 19th, members will have the chance to interact with the Archive’s staff and collections at a dedicated Open House, where, along with refreshments and wine, a spectacular selection of calligraphic originals will be on view.

All images on these pages are from Archive materials currently on display in the Archive’s first major exhibition, Without Type, Book of Hours 1689: Charles Gilbert, open until April 3, 2016, at the San Francisco Prieres Chrétiennes pour Monsieur de Bonneil, Center for the Book. 6 1/4 x 7”Paris, 1689, Calligraphic Manuscript on Vellum

Follow Letterform Archive on Instagram (@letterformarchive) and Twitter (@lett_arc) for a regular stream of appealing images. Notifications of upcoming events are posted at letterformarchive.org/news, where members may also sign up for the Archive’s email list. For information on Type@ Cooper West, an educational program of public lectures and workshops offered in conjunction with The Cooper Union, Friedrich Neugebauer, Jan van den Velde, Spieghel der Schrijfkonste Psalm 19, 15 1/2 x 10 1/2” 9 x 12 5/8”, Amsterdam, 1605, please see www.coopertype.org. Austria, 1959, Pen & Ink on Paper Engraved Calligraphy Printed by Intaglio 2 Friends of Calligraphy Trivial Pursuits By: Evelyn Eldridge

Twenty-Eighth Annual Trivial Pursuits

Once again Trivial Pursuits provided a fun play date for forty lucky Friends of Calligraphy members, this year marking the twenty-eighth year. It’s always so much fun to see what the teachers have prepared and what new skills the participants take away.

Aside from the mini-workshops, Trivial Pursuits has two other much- anticipated features. Each year the participants and members receive a goody bag of calligraphy-related items that are donated during the year, some from members, some from merchants. Jessie Evans was goody bag organizer again this year, with help from Dorothy Yuki. We request that participants send their registration forms in a decorated envelope, and display the envelopes during the day. Participants and teachers vote for the best envelope in the morning and results are announced at lunch. The diverse skills and imagination that you can see on an envelope are wonderful.

Laura Bernabei was our snack and refreshment Goddess again, keeping the coffee area organized and well-run, even while she participated in the workshops. While everyone enjoyed the delicious salad lunch that Dorothy Yuki’s daughter Miya Carpenter provided, George Yamasaki played the piano in the background, often with Jerry Lehman singing along. George’s wife Anne started Trivial Pursuits 28 years ago. David Brookes created the wonderful name tags again this year.

The mini-workshops were as diverse this year as ever. Someone always has us construct something interesting, and this year Joanna Witzel and Valerie Franco had us make two radically different box structures. Sara Loesch Frank shared her expertise in using and maintaining Parallel Pens, including some sparkly results from dipping the pens in iridescent powders. Jody Meese taught chalk board writing, a wildly popular form right now, from choosing a design to the finished product. With a few overlapping squiggly lines and some tracing paper, Alan Blackman had the participants finding their own unique alphabet. When Chris McDonald was hit unexpectedly with food poisoning the night before and couldn’t come, he had prepared so well that Jessie Evans was able to lead Chris’s workshop about blind contour drawing with no problem.

None of this great fun would be possible without the volunteers, from the behind the scenes work that’s done all year to the teams of cheerful and energetic volunteers who pitched in on the day of the event. Everything went so smoothly, with no major bumps in the road, thanks to you all.

If you’ve never participated in Trivial Pursuits, or if you have and want to again, keep a watch out for the announcement flyer in the early fall. There will be another lineup of diverse and fun mini-workshops, and now is the time to start thinking about your design for the decorated envelope contest. If you’d like to read more about this year’s Trivial Pursuits, see the blog that Martha Slavin wrote at http://marthaslavin. blogspot.com. 3 March 2016 Christopher Haanes Workshop By: Debra Ferreboeuf

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layer can be cut away. June 13–16, 2016 9:30 am–4:30 pm Another reason to work on “good” paper so the top Christopher also showed us many of his originals Are you drawn to “suggested” text in abstract that he brought on his West Coast tour. He left paintings? Do you like expressing yourself with them out for us to photograph and study. He also classwords four-day as well asclass. with We’ll paint, work color at anddividing composition? our substrateThese are withthings beautiful that we markswill explore and lines. within We’ll this for sale. autographed his book “ABC for Adults” that he had try asemic writing, an abstract form of written expressions. We’ll add stenciled words with collage andOne hearingaspect of from attending other calligraphersthe FOC workshops at these is classesthe and texture. Mood and atmosphere will be created andlovely the camaraderie infectious enthusiasm of its members. and sharing I so enjoy of sharingideas. with color and tonality in the built up complex Paintinglayers of asour well abstract as writing paintings. intuitively As always, will be students in the sun on picnic tables with fare from the encouraged.will learn about Words color, used materials, can be yourand composition. own words or Fort Mason is just an ideal location. Lunch outdoors perfect letterforms will NOT be a concern! hasFarmers’ a satellite Market store or athere!! lunch Whatfrom manymore couldof the Isweet ask the words of others that inspire you. Legibility and restaurants in the neighboring buildings. And FLAX

for? Well...just more workshops! Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA For more information, go to: www.mendocinoartcenter.org/Summer16/Sullivan or call 880.653.3328, ext 10

Calendar of Events DATE TIME EVENT DETAILS

April 3 10 am – Council Meeting Laura Bernabei’s Sunday 1 pm Home

April 7 5 pm – Ingmire/Annwn Book Club of Thursday 7 pm Lecture California, SF

April 9 & 10 9:30 am – Thomas Ingmire/ Da- Albany Senior Sat – Sun 4:30 pm vid Annwn Wkshp Center

April 16 – 17 9:30am – Rebecca Wild Albany Senior Saturday 4:30 pm Workshop Center

May 1, 2016 1 pm – FOC Annual SF Public Sunday 4 pm General Meeting Library Latino- Hispanic Room

July 12–16 9 am – Summer Workshop Arlington Com- Tues – Sat 4:30 pm Pamela Paulsrud munity Church 5 March 2016 22 November 2015 FOC Council Meeting Minutes Minutes Edited by: Gina Vasquez At the home of Jerry Lehman meet for future scheduling. other guilds are getting for back issues Council Members Present: Gina Vasquez, Gina reported that the Carol DuBosch and suggested that FOC apply for a Jerry Lehman, Dean Robino, Elena Caruthers, class went very well. The unusual seller’s permit. Dean will investigate the Elizabeth Nisperos, Dorothy Yuki, Evelyn placement of the tables added to the possibilities for the next meeting. Eldridge, Sonja Hernandez. Guests: Meredith students’ workspace and was well Klein, Susie Taylor. received. Events: Trivial Pursuits: Evelyn reported that Rebecca Wild is scheduled for April the venue is scheduled, the teachers are The meeting was called to order at 10:05. 16–17, 2016. Meredith noted that there signed up, Miya Carpenter will again Evelyn moved to accept the minutes of 27 is a Council meeting scheduled for that nd assemble the lunches. Marcia Friedman September 2015, as corrected. Dorothy 2 , weekend. The Council voted to move the asked if there was a possibility to sell the all approved. date to April 10 and Laura will be notified remaining T-shirts from the Passionate of this change. Membership: Pen Conference. Because of our nonprofit 2015 – 2016 membership totals: 398 Christopher Haanes will teach on status we are unable to do this. Jo Hansen renewals, 9 Honorary, 2 Honorary Spouse, February 5, 6, & 7. There is still a contacted Meredith volunteering to help 40 new members, for total membership of possibility he might give a lecture or with Trivial Pursuits elephant table; 449. Membership is up for this year. The tutorials. Meredith will contact her and explain the new member packets have been mailed. Pamela Paulsrud will be teaching the procedures. summer workshop, July 12–16, 2016. Retreat: Meredith will chair this event Treasury: For September 2016 we will schedule again, which is scheduled for March 2 -6, Reported on cash accounts including the Rachel Yallop. to be held at Santa Sabina. There are 30 Zapf and Deaver funds. This is the time Several names were mentioned for future people enrolled at this time with 3 on the of year the balance is high because retreat classes. Amity, not available in 2016, Rick waiting list. funds have been received. Tax forms were Paulus for Pointed Pen, and Larry Thomas. filed on time. Dean thanked Martha and Unfinished Business: Another venue suggested for lectures was Jerry for participating in the mini-audit. Sonja presented a proposal for FOC the Bookbinders Museum. The chaos cards donation income from the attending a special open house at the Conference was reported. Dean suggested Dean reported on the process for teachers’ Letterform Archive. Thursdays are that the money be donated to Glide reimbursement for travel (generally available, she suggested January 21. Memorial Church for all the time that made at the time of the class), covering The Annual General Meeting will be Vicky Lee spent designing and assembling some modifications that the Workshop booked at the Main Library for the 2017 these cards. Dorothy moved that this Committee approved. This was endorsed meeting. 2016 was reserved in 2015. amount be donated to the Glide Memorial by the Council. FOC requests travel Church. Elena 2nd, all approved. insurance to cover any unforeseen New Business: Dean said that FOC is receiving periodic problems when payment is made in Dean and Meredith will review the emails from our insurer. Dean will advance. membership procedures for discussion at forward these to the Council when they the next meeting. appear of general interest. Publications: Susie presented conference postcards to be Dean presented the transaction report for The Membership Directory has been distributed. September and October. Jerry moved to printed. Erma Takeda designed the accept the amounts given. Evelyn 2nd the cover and the inside letter headings. The Meredith suggested that FOC organize motion, all approved. mailing was November 19. JoAnn Brand a social meeting for new members and sent appreciation for the larger envelopes, others. She will reserve a day at the San Fort Mason Classes: which made stuffing much easier. Francisco Main Library for a trial run. Elizabeth reported that classes are all The number of copies of Alphabet printed Elizabeth reported that the November scheduled for the year 2016. Rent deposits went from 600 to 550 some years ago. 14 program at ‘Calligraphies in for the first 6 months have been paid. There are no copies remaining of the last Conversation’, sponsored by the Ziya Art Judy Detrick designed the Fort Mason issue except those Meredith has on hand Center, was very successful. Elizabeth Class Brochure, and it was suggested that for new members. Dorothy moved that the demonstrated with Rick Paulus, Alan these be distributed more widely around print amount be raised back to 600, Gina Blackman, and Arash Shirinbab. nd the Bay, and that the teachers should have 2 , all approved. several of these for distribution. There is a great deal of interest in the Evelyn moved to close the meeting. nd Loren Bondurant substituted for Patricia last issue covering Hermann Zapf. Carl Dorothy 2 , all approved and the meeting Coltrin’s Italic Handwriting class and Rohrs proposed and obtained quotes for closed at 1:10 P.M. received excellent reviews. Laura Bernabei a reprint. Dorothy moved FOC reprint nd also assisted with this class. 100 copies. Elena 2 , all approved with The next meeting will be held January 24, Dean abstaining. Gina will contact Carl 2016, at the home of Evelyn Eldridge Workshops: to let him know. The reprints will be The Workshop Committee, Dorothy, handled the same as other Alphabet back Elena, Gina, Martha, Meredith, Laura, will issues. Evelyn mentioned some amounts 6 Friends of Calligraphy Members Teaching Patricia Cooke San Francisco Private lessons in Italic, Uncial and Black Letter 415 888 3299 or [email protected] Thomas Ingmire Jody Meese Calligraphy Correspondence Program and private instruction. Periodic classes in pointed pen lettering, flourishing, For details and schedule: www.thomasingmire.com engrossing, and chalk lettering. 415.272.3612 or East Bay [email protected]; www.jodymeese.com Patricia Coltrin Mendocino County Private tutoring. 510.524.5208 or patricia_coltrin @yahoo.com Judy Detrick Georgianna Greenwood 707.964.9276 or [email protected] Teaches occasionally in her home studio. For more information: 510.841.6924 or [email protected] Sonoma Bill Kemp Christine Renden Haggarty Teaches classes in pointed pen hands at Castle in the Air in Ongoing classes in Asian calligraphy for beginners and Berkeley several times a year. Check their website: intermediates. [email protected] or visit zenbrush.net www.castleintheair.biz for his schedule. Sherrie Lovler Kaori Ogawa Private or small group tutoring: Calligraphy and Illumination Melissa 707.528.1723 Titone in my home 925.786.6858 or [email protected] 707.573.3810 or visit www.wordsofafeather.com https://www.facebook.com/StudioMew Antonia (Nini) Smith Santa Cruz / Monterey / Carmel Year-round calligraphy classes for all levels at the Piedmont Debra Ferreboeuf Adult School. 510.594.2655. For information contact Nini at 831.655.4311 510.526.7249 or [email protected] Carolyn Fitz Erma Takeda Teaches class through Cabrillo College Extension in 925.284.7368 or [email protected] italic calligraphy; travel sketching; sumi-e traditional style ink painting. 831.335.2886 or [email protected] Carla Tenret Ruth Korch Year-round classes, summer excepted, at Albany Community Center. 510.526.1214 Art and calligraphy classes in the Santa Cruz area. www.ruthkorch.com Holly Ynostroza Private classes and public adult program. Kern County Orinda Community Center. 510.655.7591 Chris Paschke South Bay Calligraphy classes, all levels, in Tehachapi, CA. 661.821.2188 or [email protected] Melissa Dinwiddie or visit website http://DesignsInkArt.com Calligraphy, book arts, and illumination. Reno/Tahoe 650.938.3939 or [email protected] Sara Loesch Frank Carol Pallesen Ongoing calligraphy classes for beginners and intermediates. Ongoing classes in calligraphy and book arts in her studio 408.446.3397 or [email protected] and the Nevada Museum of Art. 775.329.6983 Marian Gault New Mexico For information on calligraphy classes: Bill Kemp 408.395.8026 or [email protected] Teaching/tutoring in Albuquerque. 505.235.4983. Ann Thompson For Berkeley classes see castleintheair.biz. 408.378.6965 Online Ward Dunham & Linnea Lundquist Harvest Crittenden Their website is out of date, but you can contact them for Classes in Spencerian, flourishing, copperplate, and supplies at 650.728.9922 or [email protected]. Photoshop for calligraphers. 517.545.3031 Marin County www.acornarts.org or [email protected] Ann Miller JoAnn Burchfiel Brand Calligraphy and Letterform and Advanced Calligraphy. Two Ongoing private instruction in uncial, italic and foundational. accredited courses online through San Francisco Academy of 7 415.924.2625 or [email protected] Art University. online.academyart.edu or 650.558.8270 Please send any teaching changes, corrections, or additions to [email protected] March 2016 Fort Mason Classes Membership

Italic FOC welcomes our newest members. Georgianna Greenwood, Instructor We’re glad you joined. Seven Saturday Mornings • 10:00 am to 12:30 pm New Members

April 23 to June 4, 2016 Sarah Alexander Caitlin Blake Textura Mary Ann Burg Liz Crain Carol Hall Dana Jacobson Meredith Klein, Instructor Jeanne Lavin Bianca Mascorro Seven Tuesday Evenings • 6:30–9:00 pm Linda Ching Sledge August 30, September 6, 20, 27, and October 4, 11, 18, 2016 Bay Area Bindathon Italic Handwriting As part of College Book Art Association’s new Patricia Coltrin, Instructor initiative, Book Art Gives Back, Mills College is Four Tuesday Evenings • 6:30–9:00 pm happy to announce a Bay Area Bindathon. Please October 25 to November 15, 2016 join Mills students on campus on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, from 5–8pm, in CPM 106 to bind blank Deadline for articles for the next Friends of Calligraphy journals that will be used by under-served Bay Area Bulletin #123 is May 18, 2016. populations such as prison classes, adult literacy Please submit articles or questions to programs and youth writing groups. FOC Members Nancy Noble, [email protected] are encouraged to participate. Parking on campus is free. Questions: [email protected] Mailing Crew Thank You’s

Thanks to our terrific mail crew for the December Change of Address 17 regular mailings. The FOC mail crew is orga- If your contact information changes – nized by JoAnn Brand. Special thanks to Georgi- address, phone or email anna Greenwood for hosting the mailings at her please send the new information to studio. membership chair Meredith Klein Laura Bernabei JoAnn Brand 707 Spokane Avenue, Albany, CA 94706 [email protected] or call 510.527.0434 Debbie Brawner Jo Hansen Vicki Piovia Dean Robino Colophon Mary Ann Wight Meredith Klein — Labels & taking to the Post Office FOC Bulletin #122 The text is set in Cambria, Palatino and Optima. Masthead: Neuland Penned by Anonymous. In Memoriam Adobe InDesign CC was used for the layout The Colleagues of Calligraphy announced the passing and designed on a MacBook Air plus iMacDesktop. of George Yanagita on Monday, February 22, 2016 Proofreading by Barbara DeMaria, from a stroke. Calligraphers around the country and Dean Robino and Meredith Klein. beyond will remember George as a superb craftsman Photos by Laura Bernabei and Nancy Noble. creating beautiful letters, expertly cutting quills and Friends of Calligraphy is a nonprofit society of hand crafting tools, burnishers and quill knives. people interested in calligraphy and related arts. George was a gifted and generous teacher willing to Membership is $40.00 annually, open to amateurs share his extensive research and information on tools and professionals. and gilding techniques. His skills both in lettering and Mailing address: PO Box 425194, tool making were exemplary. He had an enormous San Francisco, CA 94142 impact on Colleagues of Calligraphy, who are FOC Website: www.friendsofcalligraphy.org honored to claim him as a local treasure with FOC Facebook page: national and international recognition. www.facebook.com/FriendsofCalligraphy 8 Friends of Calligraphy