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Leslie Barnes, Calligraphy Plus
(314) 704-3656
Denise Gerstung
314-603-5682
Commissions
Joanne Kluba, Paper Birds
(314) 616-2257
www.paperbirds.com
Enroll in classes to build basic bookbinding skills, learn about paper, tools and materials used in hand book making. Students will create personalized, playful paste papers to use in books, stationary, collage and more.
Samantha Newman, WS Newman, LLC
Digital Typography and Digital Arts
(314) 223-8822
Karen Pfeifer
1 (618) 978-7327
karen.pfeifer@charter.net
Carol Savage, Calligraphy for Life’s Celebrations!
341-341-0017
www.carolsavage.com
A certified art teacher, Carol teaches many alphabets and techniques, as well as handwriting to youth and adults. She enjoys participating in events by artistically writing names, and by offering the public hands-on experience with a dip pen. In 4 decades she has designed custom art for more than a thousand individuals and business.
Cheryl Tefft, Calligraphics
(636) 441-7225
calligraphics@yahoo.com
https://www.facebook.com/Calligraphics1
Cheryl teaches a wide variety of zoom classes for novice calligraphers to advanced. She tutors individuals and small groups privately. Request her email list of upcoming classes.
Barbara Winnerman, Calligraphy
(314) 434-3478
bawinnie@earthlink.net
I've had an affection for calligraphy ever since I received a certificate from the library's Read-A-Way summer program for reading 10 books and the head librarian wrote my name on it with a broad edged pen. That stayed with me for many years until 1980 when calligraphy became very popular. I bought myself a Schaefer "calligraphy set" but couldn't figure out the thicks and thins on my own, so I signed up for a beginning Italic class at a local community school. This led to joining the Guild, taking more classes, and taking almost every workshop the Guild has offered since then. I've discovered, for the most part, that you can learn at least one new thing from each workshop. I taught Beginning Italic for 19 years at various St. Louis Community schools, sharing my love of beautiful writing. And being a bean counter vs. an artist, I have also been able to serve the Guild as treasurer and with other behind-the-scenes activities.
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My exposure to letters and using words artistically started from an excellent high school art teacher. She laid before us a world of art and challenged us to embrace many styles and techniques. The love of art and letters and words was later brought steps further in my college days at the Memphis Academy of Arts.
Twenty years or so ago, I joined the St. Louis Calligraphy Guild, which has served as my tutor by means of meetings, workshops, year long classes, and the exposure to the talents of those around me. The guild members and their artwork, tips, and encouragement have been the single most important tool for growing in my lettering arts journey. It’s not just the letters, it’s been the education in learning to communicate in a way as to make each letter and word, each layout, speak to the viewer. It’s been a beautiful ride.
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A hand lettered alphabet on the blackboard caught my eye back in fourth grade. During a graphic design class at Washington University, I expanded my drawing skills into copying alphabets from catalogs of rub off letters. At the end of the semester, Professor Dick Brunell told me about a potential career as a calligrapher, but I did not comprehend what that might be.
As a novice high school art teacher, I wrote my student worksheets with an Osmiroid pen in Chancery Cursive, the italic hand he had taught.
With summer months free to plan our wedding, I lettered all our stationery. That initiated my business as people began to ask me to write poems and fill in names on certificates. Fortunately, I learned about the newly formed Saint Louis Calligraphy Guild, and joined in its first months. We were a sizable group, meeting and exhibiting our art at the Missouri Botanical Garden. I helped with the guild newsletter and exhibits until our growing family left me little time for adult art. Guild enrichment was soon replaced by teaching art in school, scouting and family activities.
The Saint Louis guild introduced me to countless aspects of calligraphy through a calendar of monthly meetings, seasonal workshops, events around town, inspiring friendships, connections to other guilds and conferences. These are some of the member perks which grew my single fountain pen skills into a “flourishing” professional business. The array of lettering styles I now enjoy includes pointed pen Copperplate with its delightful oval line extensions.
During the 8 years we lived in Tennessee, I was very active in the Nashville guild, and participated in 4 IAMPETH conferences. I love the extensive variety of lettering and decorative skills I have learned through multiple workshops every year with many top calligraphic artists.
My fellow calligraphers are generous and fun, fascinated with expanding their skills and trying new tools and media. Come for a visit. I have a studio full to share with you!
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and with other behind-the-scenes activities.
and with other behind-the-scenes activities.
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