Guild Members Only

On January 11, 2020 the New Orleans Lettering Arts Association will decommission its extensive calligraphy library. We have many popular and out of print editions to expand your own collection. At this members-only meeting, the books will be dispersed through a free lottery.
Please join us to show support for your guild.
Note: This is your only opportunity to participate in the free lottery.
Refreshments will be served, so please RSVP by January 6, 2020.

• Date: January 11, 2020
• Location: Carlo Ditta, 1445 MacArthur Ave, Harvey, lA 70058
• Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Update: COPPERPLATE IN THE 21st CENTURY

The deadline has been extended. Don’t miss this opportunity to be among the first to take Maria Helena Hoksch’s new course on Modern Copperplate. Maria Helena will be teaching this class at the upcoming IAMPETH conference in Denver and it has quickly become one of the most popular courses.

You may register on our web site via PayPal or email Debbie at debra.fleming25@gmail.com to reserve a space. See the posting below for futher information about time, place, fee & suppplies.

February Calligraphy Meeting

Medieval Manuscripts

Join us on Saturday, February 16 for a presentation on medieval manuscript page layouts with Sondra Venable, then use these techniques to create a page layout of your own. Sondra will have books on hand as well as work of her own.

Saturday, February 16, 2019 · 9:00am – Noon

Materials

A poem of 2-3 stanzas, or a quotation of similar length

A sheet of hot-press watercolor paper, 9″x12″, or 11″x14″

Graph paper or other practice paper

Black ink

Pen with broad nib, 1-2 millimeters wide

Red, blue, and white gouache

Gold ink or gouache

Small cups or palette for mixing gouache with water

Small, pointed brushes

Location

Carlo Ditta Meeting Room, 1445 MacArthur Ave, Harvey, LA 70058

Email Eugenia to register for this meeting

Guild News

At the last guild meeting the members voted on and approved some changes to our meeting schedule.

We will now meet quarterly with our first meeting on September 8th.

Also, through the continued generosity of Eugenia Uhl’s family, we will meet at Carlo Ditta located at

1445 MacArthur Ave.

Harvey, LA 70058

Check back in August for more details about the upcoming meeting.

Reggie Ezell’s 26 Seeds: A Year to Grow New Orleans Style

You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception for an extrordinary calligraphy exhibition:

Reggie Ezell’s 26 Seeds: A Year to Grow

New Orleans Style 2018 

sponsored by the New Orleans Lettering Arts Association
& the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts

Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
5 – 8pm
New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts · 5256 Magazine Street · New Orleans

This show displays the artwork from a year-long calligraphy course with renowned master teacher and artist Reggie Ezell of Chicago, Illinois. The fifteen participants explored a multitude of lettering and design techniques with Reggie and celebrate with him his remarkable thirty-year teaching career.

The calligraphers who participated in 26 Seeds, New Orleans 2018, were Patti Adams, Michele Boyce, Troy Brooks, Carmel Cucinotta-Harmon, Lisa Devlin, Georgia Dufresne, Debra Fleming, Natalie Gaidry, Maria Helena Hoksch, Anne Kathryn Hunter, Fe Laughlin, Theresa Lutostanski, LaVerne Parfait, Petrea Tomko, and Eugenia Uhl.

The show will remain on display from March 3 through April 28, 2018. The Academy Gallery is open Monday through Friday 9am – 4pm and Saturdays 10am – 4pm.

The New Orleans Lettering Arts Association is deeply indebted to the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts for their gracious hosting of this calligraphy exhibition and to Reggie Ezell for his artistry and extraordinary teaching during all the many hours we spent together over this past year, celebrating the joys and challenges of calligraphic design.

Peter Thornton Workshop

The Versal Letter with Peter Thornton Class dates: Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11 Class Times: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (we will brown bag it for lunch) Class Fees: NOLAA member $150; non-member $175 ($50 non-refundable deposit required to reserve your spot) Location: Carlo Ditta Meeting Room, 1445 Mac Arthur Avenue, Harvey, Louisiana Register by mail: Workshop Registration Form | NOLAA Membership Registration Form Register by PayPal: www.neworleanscalligraphy.org Peter Thornton, Professional Calligrapher for over 50 years and teacher for over 40 years. “Yep, I’ve been around the calligraphic block!” This is a 2 day workshop. It will be a gentle introduction to the (12th/13th century) decorative Versal capital letter and modern variants. Day 1 We shall be working with the ‘normal’ and conventional Versal letter. First in pencil before moving on to pen and ink or gouache. There will be many short and helpful exercises and projects throughout to show why this major capital and colorful letter lasted for over 500 years. It was first used as a functional and beautiful ‘signpost to the reader’ before being used in important words and opening sentences and paragraphs. Day 2 We shall now focus on producing a more contemporary Versal letter that better suits our current needs and desire for inventiveness. Making small and quiet changes to the basic strokes (and serifs!) we shall immediately alter the ‘flavor’ and charm from the conventional decorative capital to one that both delights the eye and mind by simply breaking the pattern of our expectation. A feature of the workshop will be to show many exercises in class (and at home) that clarifies and simplifies, how to practice more effectively. Throughout will be many short talks and demonstrations and much sensitive personal tuition. Materials List: • Pencils, HB and, if possible, 4B or 8B Derwent Wash • Sharpening sand paper block • Borden and Riley Layout pad #37 (highly recommended) or similar            (11″ X 8.5″ or 11″ X 14″ or 11″ X 17″) • Any better quality paper, e.g. Arches Text Wove, Arches MBM,                     Fabriano Ingres, Rives BFK or similar. • Small nibs, Rexel size 4, Brause or Tape 1.5mm, 1mm and/or smaller. • Gouache AND watercolours of your choice. • Mixing palette and water pots • Fine pointed brushes, size 2 and/or size 4 • Old brushes to load your nibs