Faculty Bios
Gemma Black is a distinguished Australian calligrapher. For over 20 years she has taught extensively throughout Australia, and has also joined the faculty at international lettering-art conferences and taught in the US, Canada, and the UK. Her work is housed in many private and public collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and Parliament House in Canberra.
She is a Churchill Fellow, a Fellow of the prestigious Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society in England, and an Honoured Fellow.
For more information about Gemma’s work please visit http://members.pcug.org.au/~gblack/or her blog at canberragem.blogspot.com
Gemma is teaching the 5-day class Vivacious Versals.
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Pat Blair has been a professional calligrapher for 26 years, and currently holds the position of Chief Calligrapher at The White House in Washington, DC.
Her work has been published in Letter Arts Review, The Calligrapher’s Engagement Calendar, Scripsit, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Bound and Lettered. She teaches at the Loudoun Academy of the Arts in Virginia, and has been on the faculty of several International Calligraphy Conferences. Sharing and teaching what she loves is a high priority. Pat has served two years as President of the Washington Calligrapher’s Guild, been Chairperson of The Graceful Envelope Contest, and has been Co-Director of Letterforum, the 26th International Calligraphy Conference.
Pat’s love of pointed pen lettering led to her study of Copperplate and Spencerian letterforms. The International Association of Master Penman and Engrossers recently awarded her the honor “Master Penman” for her work in this area.
Pat is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Copperplate Variations and Pointed Pen Personalities.
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The work of Timothy R. Botts reaches back to letterforms as old as the first century and combines contemporary graphic design principles with them in order to express the meaning of great words. He is interested in interweaving background, text, and image so that they become one. He is always trying to strike a balance between visual expression and a degree of legibility with the goal of giving a face to that which is spirit.
Botts has a BFA in graphic design from Carnegie-Mellon University during which time he apprenticed in calligraphy with Arnold Bank. He spent three years in Japan and was influenced by the rich tradition of their brush writing.
He has designed more than 600 books for Tyndale House Publishers near Chicago where he is senior art director. Nine books of his own work are published, including Doorposts, Messiah, and a Bible illustrated in his calligraphy. He is a part time instructor with College of DuPage and has taught workshops internationally. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Newberry Library.
Tim is teaching the 5-day class Imaginative Appropriateness: Graphic Design for Calligraphers.
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Joke Boudens is a Flemish lettering artist, living and working in Bruges, Belgium. She grew up with an art-teacher mother and her father who was a calligrapher. She studied art in Brussels and is a part-time tutor for 30 years.
Boudens is well known for her small manuscript concertina books; in her work she is constantly looking for poetry and beauty by arranging and combining text-elements and small drawings. Her fine lettering – drawn, painted or written – is executed in a variety of media, including gilding. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and overseas for over twenty-two years. In the US, her work has been featured in the Calligraphers Engagement Calendar and in Letter Arts Review.
Joke is teaching the 5-day class The Wonderful Lettering of David Jones with Lieve Cornil.
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Denis Brown is internationally recognized as a world leader in the fields of calligraphy and letter arts. Committed to the art from an early age, he received his first commissions at 15, and was awarded fellowship of the UK Society of Scribes & Illuminators while still studying for his degree from Roehampton Institute. At 20 he became their youngest Fellow ever in addition to being their first Fellow from Ireland.
His work pushes boundaries while he continually refines and extends his traditional skills. Brown uses letterforms and writing to create three-dimensional layered works of art where a thousand words may paint a picture.
Denis is teaching two 2.5-day classes: The Calligraphic Journey and Understanding Italic.
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The world of books and writing has captivated Annie Cicale since she was a child. After a short career as a chemical engineer, she turned to the visual arts, specializing in painting, printmaking, and drawing. The visual qualities of writing became her subject matter when she discovered the expressive power of the calligraphic forms. She finds that as she works, she is constantly trying to figure out how she would explain her ideas to a class.
She has an MFA in graphic design and teaches calligraphy, drawing, and painting for calligraphy guilds throughout the United States, Japan, Italy, and Canada. She is the author of The Art and Craft of Hand Lettering, a 2004 publication of Lark Books.
Annie is teaching the 5-day class Roman Caps: Pattern & Texture.
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Ewan Clayton lives in Brighton, UK, where he runs his own calligraphy studio. He is Professor in Design at the University of Sunderland. In 2009 he established the university’s new Foundation Degree in Calligraphy with Design, which runs from the Kensington Palace Studios of the Prince of Wales’ Drawing School, London. For sixteen years Ewan worked as a consultant to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), the lab that invented the personal computer, with an interest in highlighting quality of life issues and the need for contemplative spaces in all areas of life.
Growing up near Ditchling, Sussex, he and two earlier generations of his family worked in a guild of craftsmen founded by Eric Gill. Ewan has exhibited work widely in the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia. He has also curated seminal exhibitions on the calligrapher Edward Johnston; the poet David Jones; the relationship between calligraphy and Digital type; and Handwriting – everyone’s art.
Ewan is teaching the 5-day class The Joy of Movement: Push, float, glide, dab.
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Lieve Cornil discovered calligraphy in 1988 and has been in love with writing ever since. After finishing her MA in business management, she decided to leave Belgium and become a professional lettering designer at the Scriptorium de Toulouse.
Studying with Thomas Ingmire and Arne Wolf in San Francisco gave her a more artistic insight. In 1995, she moved to London and worked as a freelance lettering artist for design consultancies and advertising agencies and taught at the Surrey Institute for Art and Design.
In 2002, she moved to France to become first a lecturer and later the director of the “Ecole de Communication Visuelle” in Nantes. In 2009 she set up her dream project in Bruges: STUDIO XII – International School for the Lettering Arts. The school is part of her design studio where she continues the freelance work. Her personal work has been exhibited in Europe and overseas.
Lieve is teaching the 5-day class The Wonderful Lettering of David Jones with Joke Boudens.
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Harvest Crittenden has been a professional lettering artist for more than 30 years. She specializes in Sacred Art work – calligraphy and illustration illuminating words that inspire and support our ever-changing world. Crittenden has studied illumination and lettering in the United States and Italy and has served on the faculties of numerous regional, national, and international conferences. She also teaches for the St. Michael Institute of Sacred Arts, The Religious Sisters of Mercy, Hollanders School of Book and Paper Arts, and offers workshops internationally.
She is a past winner of the Marjorie Pavelich Calligraphy Grant, and past president of The Michigan Association of Calligraphers. In 2010 she was inducted as a Master Penman by IAMPETH. Her work can be seen in museums, galleries, and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, and in numerous publications.
Her website is http://www.acornarts.org
Harvest is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Lyrical Lombardics and Spencerian.
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Laurie Doctor is a painter, teacher and calligrapher whose work is in collections in the United States and Europe, including a recent acquisition of several works by the Berlin art museum, Akademie der Künste. Her work is based on language, image, and contemplative practice. Inspiration comes from watching birds, cooking, riding horses, walking, music, literature, poetry, friends, and students.
She offers workshops and lectures internationally, as well as practicing traditional performance art, native to Asian calligraphy, for Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Laurie is teaching the 5-day class Deepening Surfaces.
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Kristen Doty has a passion for calligraphy, drawing, and painting. She obtained and continues her art education by taking classes and workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe, and by studying art books, magazines, and originals in galleries and museums. Her original works have been in juried exhibitions and her paintings, illustrations, and lettering have been published in magazines and books, and as prints, posters, greeting cards, logos, and book titles.
She enjoys sharing her passion by teaching workshops across the country and abroad. Her teaching emphasis is to promote learning in a fun, encouraging, and relaxed atmosphere while also building a solid knowledge of techniques and developing skills students can utilize and integrate in their own work.
Please visit www.kristendoty.com.
Kristin is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Luscious Layered Letters and Watercolor & Calligraphy Techniques Book.
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Reggie Ezell is a teacher. Over the past three decades his year-long course “26 Seeds: a Year to Grow” has been among the most highly regarded and sought after in the US and Canada. For a decade before that he taught calligraphy at Loyola University and the Newberry Library of Chicago.
For the last five years his new extended studies course, Primitive to Modern, has been an intense fusion of millennia-old materials and methods – calfskin vellum, gilding, quills, dry pigments, and designs (e.g. Codex Aureus) with computer and ink-jet generated backgrounds, modernized alphabets, and contemporary, innovative designs and techniques. The structure, geared to flexibility, generates finished works based on the student’s preference for structured examples or individual initiative and interest. These exciting works have been emailed out weekly since 2009 as “Pic of the Week”, all archived on reggieezell.com.
Reggie is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Gilding on Vellum and Modernizing Blacketter.
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Mike Gold is a senior lettering designer at American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio,
where he’s worked for 19 years. As part of his freelance business, abbeygold design, he has done lettering-centered design work for clients around the country. Mike has an MA in Visual Communications and 30 years experience as a commercial artist.
Mike has taught around the country, including Ghost Ranch and Lake Louise, and at two international calligraphy conferences with his friend Judy Melvin. Collaboration has been a feature of much of his personal work. He especially cherishes his involvement with Scribes 8, a collaborative group based in New Mexico.
Mike’s work has been included in numerous Letter Arts Review annuals since 1991.
http://www.abbeygolddesign.com
Mike is teaching the 5-day class Contemporary Scripts.
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Randall M. Hasson brings a multi-layered experience to his approach to teaching and to his art. He is best known for his large-scale paintings that include image as well as calligraphy, where both symbolism and philosophy through text play a vital role.
The Randall M. Hasson Gallery was established in Solana Beach, California, in 2000, and in late 2006 relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where it remains today.
Hasson has taught and lectured at nine International Conferences. He has also taught at various other locations ranging from weekend workshops to his Santa Fe based weeklong retreats.
Randall is teaching the 5-day class The Personality of Letterform.
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Writing and creating letters has been a passion for Thomas Hoyer for more than 30 years. He studied graphics and calligraphy with Prof. Werner Eikel in Aachen, Germany (the home town of Charlemagne), and has been influenced by the thoughts of Hans-Joachim Burgert. Hoyer’s focus is the visualization of a text’s content and the conviction that every letter is only a definition with infinite possibilities of shape.
He has worked for the Calligraphy Department of the Office of Foreign Affairs, and now works as a freelance lettering artist for design agencies, institutions, and private persons. His 18 years of teaching experience include workshops for Russian type designers in Moscow, and he teaches widely throughout the US and Canada.
Thomas is teaching two 2.5-day classes: The Alchemist’s Magic and Fraktur, Mon Amour!.
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Carrie Imai has been teaching calligraphy and related subjects for over 25 years. Following completion of a certificate program in graphic art and design, she started a free-lance calligraphy and graphic arts business, and has worked as a calligrapher for the County of Los Angeles. She has taught at international calligraphy conferences, the Brandes Art Institute, Hughes Aircraft, RAND Corporation, and guilds across the US and in Canada. It has been her delight to teach what she loves. In her words, “Life has been so excellent since I found my passion in calligraphy, but seeing the ‘light’ go on in a student’s eyes warms my soul.”
Carrie is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Playful Letters and Foundation Meets Bone.
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Thomas Ingmire’s first art award was for a finger painting in the second grade, but he channeled his love of art into the “acceptable” field of Landscape Architecture, in which he received his BA and MLA.
In the early ’70s Ingmire discovered calligraphy quite by accident, met Donald Jackson, and joined his postgraduate program in Los Angeles. With Jackson’s encouragement, he worked toward and was awarded the first foreign Fellowship in the Society of Scribes & Illuminators.
Ingmire’s recent work focuses on collaborative work and the production of original books, including the Pablo Neruda series with Manuel Neri, and illumination on the Saint John’s Bible. He teaches and exhibits extensively; one can see his work at such places as San Francisco Public Library’s Special Collections, The Newberry Library in Chicago, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as many other public and private collections throughout the world.
Thomas is teaching the 5-day class In Search of the New.
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Martin Jackson was born in Sheffield England and emigrated to Canada in 1966. 55 years of experience as a designer and calligrapher with his own design studio in Vancouver, Canada places him as one of Canada’s foremost calligraphers. He has lectured and taught across Canada, the United States, and in Australia, Europe and Japan, and has been on the faculty of several international conferences. Among his many commissions are pieces for the visit to Vancouver by the Prince and Princess of Wales, Pope John Paul II, and the calligraphy for the wedding reception of Bill Gates.
When not working on his calligraphy Martin collects and rears moths and butterflies and is an avid cross-country skier.
Martin Jackson is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Double & Triple Letter Forms and Uncials, Layout and Design.
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Yves Leterme (°1959 Belgium), by profession a teacher of Latin and Greek, was initiated in calligraphy in 1991. Soon after, he became a close student of Brody Neuenschwander, who influenced him in more than one way. Already at an early stage he devoted a lot of time to his gestural writing style, for which he is now widely known. Other typical features of his work are the carefully drawn capitals and unusual compositions on richly textured backgrounds.
In recent years he has traveled a lot to teach his specific approach on lettering and calligraphy. Next to that he’s a freelance calligrapher who takes on commissions of all kinds and produces artwork for exhibitions and collectors. In 2011 he published his book ‘Thoughtful Gestures’.
Visit his website http://www.yleterme.be/ or follow him on his blog http://www.yvesleterme.wordpress.com/
Yves is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Roman Rustics Revisited and Gestural Writing.
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Judy Melvin’s lifelong passion for art started with crayons and advanced to inks, paints, pens, and a combination of all in mixed-media layering. She enjoyed a twelve-year career with American Greetings Corporation as a design and lettering artist. Judy teaches design, mixed-media, and brush lettering workshops throughout the US and Canada and has served as faculty at many International Lettering Conferences. She has also taught as faculty of Literally Letters at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, and Letters California Style 2009.
Judy practices what she teaches – a unique version of fine artwork that incorporates and often begins with lettering layered with mixed media. Her work has been published and exhibited throughout the US, Canada, Austria, and is in numerous collections worldwide.
Judy is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Brushing the Surface and A Balancing Act: Neuland & Script.
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Suzanne Moore is a lettering artist, painter, and printmaker whose eclectic interests fuse in the diversity of her artists’ books. She melds word and painted image with form, content, and structure into spaces that invite the reader to engage, examine, and inquire. Her books blend abstract and representational imagery, rich color and surface treatments with textual content and contemporary lettering to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction.
Suzanne’s work is exhibited widely, and her books have been acquired for public and private collections in the US and Europe. Among them are the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Library of Congress, and the rare book collections of Smith College, Wellesley College, Harvard University, Bowdoin College, and the University of Washington. She lectures and teaches in the US and abroad on contemporary manuscript book design, conceptual ideas in book design, and on painting and collage techniques.
Suzanne is teaching the 5-day class Letters as Subject: Written, Drawn & Painted.
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Cherryl Moote has been a paper artist for over 30 years. Her specialties include bookbinding, calligraphy, card making, rubber stamping, and paper decorating. She has taught throughout North America and has published a number of books for paper enthusiasts. Grateful for the impact of many artistic mentors, she devotes a large part of her career to teaching, inspiring and connecting with other artists around the world. Moote’s natural teaching talent shines through in all her materials, allowing you to learn new techniques with maximum enjoyment and success.
To see samples of Cherryl’s work go to her company website at http://www.mootepoints.com/and visit the gallery section.
Cherryl is teaching the 5-day class 26 Things to Do with the Alphabet.
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Brody Neuenschwander is a text artist and calligrapher. He studied at Princeton University and the Courtauld Institute, where he completed his PhD in 1986. At the same time he studied calligraphy at the Roehampton Institute.
In 1989 Neuenschwander began a twenty-year collaboration with director Peter Greenaway, providing live-action calligraphy for the films “Prospero’s Books” and “The Pillow Book,” as well as for the operas “Writing to Vermeer,” “Columbus,” and many other projects.
In 2004 Neuenschwander taught at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, researching the development of text art in the 20th century. Recent projects have included video installations, stained glass, monumental texts in metal, and stage performances with live calligraphy.
From the start, Neuenschwander asked serious questions about the place of calligraphy in the modern world. Though the mark of the pen is usually present in his work, so are typographic letters, scratched letters, drawings and paintings. The question is posed again and again, “Is this an image or is this a text?”
Brody is teaching the 5-day class Developing Meaning.
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Pamela Paulsrud is a visual artist, creating both intimate pieces and large-scale installations. Her work as a papermaker, calligrapher, book artist, and collaborator has been recognized internationally. She also researches and practices energetic healing modalities which simultaneously informs her art. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago.
Her work has been published in 500 Handmade Books; Calligraphy and Handmade Paper; Brush Lettering; Making Memory Books by Hand; Exploratopia; Living Artists; Collage, Assemblage, and Altered Art and in Letter Arts Review, and resides in many public and private collections, including the Special Collections at the University of California, San Diego, and the Newberry Library, Chicago. She was awarded the Newberry Library Purchase Prize in 1997.
Pamela teaches workshops in lettering and book arts and collaborates in an ongoing project entitled Tree whispers, which includes papermaking demonstrations and activities, storytelling, and site-specific installations.
http://www.pamelapaulsrud.com/ and http://www.treewhispers.com
Pamela is teaching two 2.5-day classes: The Spontaneous Mark & Alternative Image and Life Lines.
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Marilyn Reaves has a passion for brushes—flat, pointed, oval, or quirky—and the freedom and flexibility they offer in making letters, designs, and images. Reaves teaches classes in lettering, design, drawing, and book arts at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she earned an MFA in Visual Design. She also works in Special Collections in the Knight Library on campus, where manuscripts, rare books, and other treasures are housed. In Special Collections she co-teaches a Freshman Seminar on the history and art of the book: “From Gothic Script to Graphic Novel.”
Reaves has taught brush lettering at many workshops and several calligraphy conferences. In her spare time she works continually at de-cluttering and manages to take birding trips.
Marilyn is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Buoyant Brush and Pointed Brush & Collage.
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Carl Rohrs has been a freelance lettering artist and sign painter in Santa Cruz, California for more than 30 years, and has been teaching lettering and graphic design at Cabrillo College since 1984. He has also taught workshops for unsuspecting calligraphy societies and conferences around the US and Canada, as well as in Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. Hobbies include golf, typographic errors, and spilling paint on good clothes, but he’s managed to keep the splashing of ink on students to a minimum.
Carl is teaching the 5-day class 20th Century Inspirations & 21st Century Techniques with Julian Waters.
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Peter Thornton has been an enthusiastic full-time professional calligrapher for over 40 years, teaching throughout Europe, South Africa, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada and the US. He has taught at over 20 International Conferences as well as holding week-long Master Classes in the UK, Germany, and Belgium. His book, Alphabetically Speaking, will soon be followed by a sequel on the topic of Layout and Design with an emphasis on textural variations.
He still firmly believes that letters want to be burdened with affection and not perfection.
He is currently living in Tennessee with his wife, Sherri, and their 3 cats, and spreads his time between his work, the vegetable garden, cooking, and when time permits, fishing.
Peter is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Casual, Playful & Inventive Caps and The Ruling Pen.
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Diane von Arx is a letter-maker and graphic designer, producing expressive lettering and developing Corporate Marks for an extensive group of clients including Target Corporation, General Mills, and the University of Minnesota. She utilizes her creative and production skills to produce one-of-a-kind composite fine art prints; designs and produces corporate resolutions, documents of recognition, and gift pieces, including contemporary decorated initials and names.
von Arx has taught in Minnesota for over 30 years and teaches workshops throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Her work is published in the Speedball Textbook; she has published three workbooks for beginning calligraphers; and she is part of the artistic team working on The Saint John’s Bible project.
Diane von Arx is teaching the 5-day class Studio Works.
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Julian Waters’ most important teachers were his parents, Peter and Sheila Waters, and the legendary type designer Hermann Zapf. Professor Zapf later chose Julian as his successor to teach the summer master classes at Rochester Institute of Technology in the early ’90s. Julian’s career began as a book designer; he has since specialized in fine lettering design. Waters’ many corporate clients have included the US Postal Service and National Geographic. Among his font designs are the award winning Adobe Waters Titling Pro and the Jefferson, a custom typeface family for the Visitors Center at Jefferson’s Monticello. He has received awards from the Type Directors Club, Graphis, Art Directors Club, Print, and Letter Arts Review, among others.
Waters’ work has been represented in many international exhibitions and publications. He has had solo shows in Washington DC, Norway, and Iceland. During the 1990s he taught lettering and typography at the Corcoran School of Art, and in 1997 was honored as the Rubenstein Memorial Artist in Residence at DC’s Sidwell Friends School. In 2003, the Washington Calligraphers Guild issued the publication Work by Julian Waters: From Sketch to Final Art.
http://www.waterslettering.com/
Julian is teaching the 5-day class 20th Century Inspirations & 21st Century Techniques with Carl Rohrs.
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Sheila Waters is an internationally renowned calligraphic artist and instructor whose career has been devoted to commissions for royalty, museums, libraries, corporations, publishers and collectors for over sixty years. Born in England, she gained her Masters Degree at the Royal College Art in 1951 and was then elected a Fellow of the Society of Scribes & Illuminators, London, at age 22. She immigrated to the US in 1971 with her family for her late husband Peter Waters to become Chief of Conservation at the Library of Congress, started calligraphy classes for the Smithsonian in 1972 and was founding president of the Washington Calligraphers Guild in 1976.
Her best-known works include the Roundel of the Seasons wall panel, and the illuminated manuscript of Dylan Thomas’s play “Under Milk Wood,” the latter in the collection of the late Sir John Paul Getty, Oxford, UK. Her textbook Foundations of Calligraphy was published in 2006 and reprinted in 2008. She has continued to lecture, teach classes, workshops, and master classes worldwide, and to produce a wide range of archival giclee prints for sale. A large retrospective show of her work filled nine galleries at Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Bethesda MD, to celebrate her 80th birthday in the summer of 2009.
Sheila Waters is teaching two 2.5-day classes: Versals: From Classic to Modern and Double Primary Palette.
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Sharon Zeugin spends most of her days drawing, painting, and doing calligraphy in and out of her studio in Austin, Texas. Her background includes degrees in history and social work from the University of Southern California and University of Texas. Zeugin also studied calligraphy at the Roehampton Institute, in London.
In addition to her commission work, she teaches workshops all over the US, Canada, and soon, Europe, and participates in both local and national juried art exhibits. Sketching is a passion; she loves to “seize the moments as they fly” in various journals. As a teacher, her aim is to help students discover and cultivate their passion – and get over their fear of the blank page.
Sharon is teaching the 5-day class The Joy of Calligraphy: Developing a Personal Script.
