Registration Information and Form Fall 2006 Workshops Keep in Mind The fee for each workshop at the Columbia Art Center is $125 for WCG members and $150 for non-members. The fee for the workshop at the National Postal Museum is $65 Registration begins August 7, for WCG members and $75 for non-members. Registration Locations and Directions 2006 (no earlier postmarks, Fill out the Registration Form on the back of this flyer and Columbia Art Center please) and will continue until A Weekend with Barry Morentz: mail it, along with a #10 stamped, self-addressed envelope 6100 Foreland Garth (Long Reach Village Center) the deadlines shown with each Two Workshops, Two Ideas, One Glorious Weekend—October 14 & 15 and check made out to Washington Calligraphers Guild Columbia, MD class description. (If there are for the appropriate amount to: Take I-95 to Rt. 175 toward Columbia. Turn right onto Snowden not enough registrants prior to Walnut Ink Meets the Book with Jean Formo—November 11 & 12 Kara Koppanyi River Parkway. Turn left onto Tamar Drive. Turn left into the Long the workshop deadline, it will 744 Camberley Circle, #T-1 Reach Village Center (Foreland Garth) and park. (The Art Center be cancelled.) Pop-Up Paper Structures (Cards) with Carol Barton—December 9 Baltimore, Maryland 21204 is on the other side of the supermarket.) Telephone registrations are not accepted, but if you have a Registration is assigned in the Name ______National Postal Museum question, you may call Kara at 410.769.9040 or e-mail her 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE order received, with preference Address ______at [email protected] . You may also call Louise Harris at Washington, DC 20002 given to WCG members. You 301.596.7773 or e-mail her at [email protected] or Karen Daly City, State, Zip Code ______202.633.5555, [TTY] 202.633.9849 will be notified if you are in the at 301.365.2664 or e-mail her at [email protected] . Phone Numbers (home) ______(work) ______class or on the waiting list. If Metro Red Line to Union Station the class is full, your workshop E-mail Address ______fee will be returned to you. Are you a WCG member? Yes _____ No _____ Cancellations Take the Metro’s Red Line to Union Station. Leave through the Refunds are given only if the workshop is cancelled by WCG, your Massachusetts Avenue exit. Exiting the escalator, the National place is actually filled from our waiting list, or if you find someone Postal Museum is on the left. to take your place in the workshop. Please give us as much notice as possible. All changes in registration must be handled by Kara Driving from Maryland–Arriving from the East Koppanyi. If you cannot make the class, you must call Kara at Follow New York Avenue (west) into the city. Turn left on First Street, N.E. Drive about 12 blocks to the National Postal Museum. Nonprofit Org. 410.769.9040 at least 24 hours in advance of the workshop so that she may notify any wait-listed people. The Museum will be on your right at the corner of Massachusetts U.S. Postage Avenue and North Capitol Street. PAID Merrifield VA Driving from Maryland–Arriving from the West or North Permit No. 742 Housing Take the Capitol Beltway. Exit on New Hampshire Avenue Hosts and drivers are needed for our out-of-town instructors, and (south). Follow New Hampshire Avenue, which will turn into are eligible to receive a 25% rebate on class tuition. To volunteer, North Capitol Street when you enter the District of Columbia. ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED please contact Louise Harris by e-mail at [email protected] or Keep driving south on North Capitol to Massachusetts Avenue. phone number 301.596.7773. The Museum will be on your left at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol. Monitors Driving from Virginia The monitor is responsible for introducing the instructor, check- Follow I-395 north. Take the Massachusetts Avenue exit. Turn ing enrollment, ensuring coffee supplies and critique forms are right onto Massachusetts Avenue (going east). The National available, and enlisting participants to set the room in order at Postal Museum will be on your left at the corner of Massachusetts the close of the session. To volunteer, contact Jennifer Kolls by Avenue and North Capitol Street. e-mail at [email protected] or phone number 703.753.0081. Parking The National Postal Museum does not have a parking lot. Street parking is available near the Museum and all-day paid parking is Reviews available at Union Station, located next to the Museum. We need volunteers to write reviews of our workshops to be Member of Cultural Alliance Fall 2006 Workshops published in the WCG Bulletin or Scripsit. The review submit- of Greater Washington It’s that time again! The Washington Calligraphers Guild is pleased to offer ted must need little or no editing. Please e-mail Terri Barber at three workshops this fall. Each workshop has its own deadline for registration, [email protected] .

07/2006 Fall Workshos as specified in its class description. Two Workshops, Two Ideas, One Glorious Walnut Ink Meets the Book Pop-Up Paper Structures (Cards) Weekend with Barry Morentz with Jean Formo with Carol Barton October 14 & 15 (Saturday & Sunday) at Columbia Art Center November 11 & 12 (Saturday & Sunday) at Columbia Art Center December 9 (Saturday) at the National Postal Museum Deadline to register: September 9 Deadline to register: September 15 Deadline to register: November 3 All skill levels welcome All skill levels welcome All skill levels welcome

Think Good Thoughts, Write Good Words Enhance your calligraphic book art projects with walnut ink and its broad range of A special kind of creative magic How can we find an appropriate letter style to reflect our most deeply felt responses color, value, and textured surface design possibilities. Use it in combination with awaits you in this workshop. You to a text? How do we create those beautiful, seemingly elusive touches that impart watercolor, acrylics, ink, colored pencil, pastel, and just plain water! Complete a will learn basic on-the-fold pop-up sparkle to our writing and lift it above the commonplace? Using music and a variety sampler book to have as a handy reference for future walnut escapades. Your array structures, then progress through of immediately accessible Shakespearean texts, we examine the elements of of walnut decorated papers are transformed in class as you create a variety of packet- a series of more complicated sound, movement, tone, and color, combined with exercises in speed, touch, pen pocket type books, bound envelope books and an entirely folded book containing three-dimensional constructions. manipulation, pressure, distortion, and wet pen technique. Directed experiments “viewing” pockets. These container books are just right for housing favorite images, Emphasis will be on developing an understanding of the simple mechanics involved resulting in “happy accidents” will then be analyzed and incorporated into our writing postcards, photos, postage stamps and other treasures. Walnuts are not just for in this art of “paper engineering.” A slide show on the history of pop-up and movable to convey a unique rendering of a personally meaningful text. eating anymore! books will be included. This is an ideal class for artists, teachers, graphic designers, and anyone who loves to play with paper. Supplies Supplies usual calligraphic supplies, quotation of 25-50 words of something you feel strongly favorite calligraphy pens, 2-3 tubes or jars of acrylic paint, black ink, gouache, colored Supplies about, and any unusual tools you want to try pencils, five yogurt containers, two foam brushes (1-2 inches wide), watercolors, large bone folder, glue stick, X-acto knife and blades, self-healing cutting mat or other cutting plastic trash bag, paper towels, masking tape, bone folder, X-acto knife, cutting mat, surface, scissors, metal ruler, pencil, right angle triangle, Scotch tape, non water-based Contemporary Decorated Letters ruler pencil, glue stick, metallic gel pens, mixing tray, loading brush, five sheets of art materials (including rubber stamps, collage materials, markers, etc.) Create original decorated letters using 19 x 25-inch Frankfurt White or Gutenberg Laid, two sheets of colored art papers like traditional and unusual tools and tech- Ingres Textweight or Canson MiTientes. No Arches Textwove, please. About Carol niques. Put a new spin on gothic, italic Carol is a book artist, curator, and teacher who has published several editions and Materials Fee: $15 and roman capitals. Overcome the fear of has organized both local and national shows of artists’ books. Her work is exhibited Includes other papers/materials, assorted mediums, walnut ink, and binding tools swash letters through guided exercises and internationally and is in numerous collections, including the Library of Congress, the intuitive “seeing.” The potential to create About Jean Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She served original and exciting letters is widened by A calligrapher and lettering artist for over twenty-five years, Jean is recognized for as curator for the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “Science and the Artist’s Book.” your familiarity with the materials used experimental alphabet design and innovative one-of-a-kind artist books. She has She has taught at elementary, high school, and university levels, as well as conducted for building pattern and texture, special traveled throughout the USA and Canada, lecturing and teaching a variety of calligraphy adult workshops at art centers across the United States. Carol is on the faculty at the effects, creative doodling, and freedom and book arts workshops, and frequently is an instructor at international calligraphy University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she teaches courses in bookbinding and from restraint and preconceived notions. conferences. Jean’s work has appeared in regional and national exhibitions, and book structures. She has had residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and is published in lettering the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil. Her pop-ups were featured in National Geographic Supplies arts books and calendars. Magazine’s July 2005, article “Zip Code 20812: It’s Only A Paper Moon.” Her most smooth bond paper (14-inches x 17-inches), Commercial lettering for recent book, The Pocket Paper Engineer, is an artist’s how-to book on paper non-waterproof ink, colored inks or gouache (including gold), 2B pencil, colored the greeting card industry, engineering. pencils, tracing paper, a few small sheets of better-quality paper, sponge, ruler, advertising, rubber stamp mixing brush, water jars, #1 and 00 series 7 sable brushes, crowquill or pointed pen design and corporate nibs, lettraset burnisher or bone folder, multiline Coit or Lozada pens, compass, graph identity is created in her paper (preferably 8 lines per inch), short quotation studio in Minnesota. As a Basic Supply List About Barry fiber artist, she continues (Please check the supply list for each workshop as all of the items below may not be Barry Morentz is a freelance lettering artist, bookbinder and boxmaker in New York to hand-spin, weave, and necessary.) City. He has taught numerous workshops throughout the United States, Canada and market a variety of yarns Drawing board • Pillow or cushion • T-square • 11x17 paper (i.e. grid, 16 lb. layout paper, Asia. His principal clients include the Museum of Modern Art, Cartier and the New York spun from natural fibers. paper for pens, etc.) • Pencils • Toolbox • Black inks • Assorted pen nibs (Mitchell, Speed- Public Library. He began studying calligraphy in 1977 and considers Sheila Waters, Jean’s current interests include ongoing exploration into the creative work of William ball, etc.) • Pen nib holders • Chisel point markers • Watercolor markers or colored pencils • Kleenex, paper towels, or rags • Water jar • Gouache • Containers or palettes for color along with Herman Zapf and Gottfried Pott as his most inspirational teachers. Morris. Since 1999, Jean has also been involved with the healing art of Reiki, as a mixing • Brushes for color mixing • Scissors or X-acto knife • Drafting tape • Eraser practitioner and teacher.