January 2013 Scribnote
COMMENTS FROM OUR
CHAIRPERSON
Several members of the MCG met at
the downtown South Bend Library on Saturday, October 6th, to celebrate our 20th
anniversary by doing what we love best…calligraphy and bookmaking. Thanks to Anne Binder for organizing this
wonderful event. The morning started at
11 am with a marvelous talk from Bob Hohl about the St. John’s Bible. Bob had
us all captivated with tales of how the 21st Century Bible came
about and Donald Jackson’s vision to create it. Luckily for us, Bob loves his subject and didn’t just stop at the
45 minute ceiling he originally put on his talk. We could have sat for a few more hours listening to all the
information. I took about 5 pages of
notes just so I could look back and remember all he told us. He also brought a large bound version of
Genesis. If you didn’t get a chance to
come to the event that day, please check out www.saintjohnsbible.org
to learn more about this historic undertaking.
At 1 pm, we began our make it/take
it sessions. Anne Binder lettered names
on creative license sheets, Anna and Angie lettered bookmarks, Ginny and
Maureen demonstrated zentangles, Renee demonstrated index card books, and Angela
M., Sharon, Marty, Diana, Connie, and Patty all demonstrated an array of little
books for make it/take its. We had
several people interested in our guild and their email addresses will now be
receiving information from our Guild. We
ended at 4 pm, cleaned up our tables and bid everyone goodbye. It was a great day to spend together doing
what we enjoy.
Our brush lettering workshop on
October 20th with Marijo Carney was a big success and hopefully
everyone got a taste of using the brush to letter, went home with some new
ideas and spent countless hours practicing! Even though I have been using brush
lettering since discovering it in 2000 at Reggie’s year long class, there were
still new things to learn that I will put into use on my next project. Marijo was a very kind and helpful
instructor and we were happy to have had her here in South Bend. Thanks to all
who helped set up tables and take them down again at the end of the day.
December brought us all together
again for our annual Christmas party held at the home of Maureen Trubac. Maureen made her delicious pork loin that is
in our MCG Cookbook while the rest of us contributed other yummy dishes. We had our meeting, during which we planned
for the rest of next year, and decided on our donations; Recipients will
include Christ the King Church, where we have our meetings, South Bend Regional
Museum of Art, and the Food Bank. Lastly, we exchanged our 5 x 7 gestural
pieces before sitting at the table for the luncheon. The gestural pieces were
lovely and all so very different. There
are some samples in this newsletter.
One of the subjects Anne Binder
brought up to us at the Christmas meeting was the invitation from Moontree in
Plymouth, Indiana to exhibit in 2014.
The idea is for us to begin to think of a project which could be a
broadside, books, etc. Throughout the next year or so, we would work on that
project, with the critiques and help of other guild members, and would be ready
for the exhibit. Read more about
Moontree at www.moontreestudios.com.
Hope everyone had a magical Holiday
season and comes into the New Year with profound energy on what we will be
working on for 2013. Thanks to Sharon,
Maureen, Amber and Jo, the MCG board that help make this group run smoothly and
also to Amber and Renee who do such a wonderful job on our blog.
Ginny
"Alone, letters are the instruments - Together, they become
the symphony" ~Mary Dee
FUTURE WORKSHOPS
Rosie Kelly will be here on April 13 & 14, in the spring of 2013, to teach a
two-day workshop topic, Playing with Design Possibilities. Rosie always brings us fresh, new ideas and
we are always happy to have her with us.
She is fine tuning her workshop thoughts and will send a supply list
soon. Cost will be $100 per person or $115 if you are not a member of the MCG. The
workshop will take place at the Whispering Pines Community Room in South Bend.
Please send your check to the MCG mailbox and let Ginny (gvanderhey@hotmail.com) know if you
are planning to attend.
Barbara Mann will be coming to South Bend to teach a two-day workshop on watercolor
flowers on October 5 and 6, 2013.
Barbara is a member of our guild living in Michigan and gave a workshop
several years ago. We are thrilled that
she will be joining us again. More
information will be forthcoming in the next few months.
Laurie Doctor will be in Kalamazoo in March with the Pendragons Guild on February
25,26 & 27 (Deepening Surfaces) and March 1, 2 & 3 (Landscape Lettering).
Since Kalamazoo had so many people interested in the workshop, they have split
it into two workshops so there may still be room if you are interested. Please
contact Lucia Leonardelli at ltl914@sbcglobal.net.
Anne Binder Classes:
Paste Papers
Sat, Jan 19 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. Cost for those who have never taken a paste paper class is $48. For those who have, it's the cost of supplies - $30.
Painted Backgrounds
Sat, Jan 26 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. Cost for those who haven't taken this class WITH Anne is $48 and those who have, supplies - $30
Folks can email anbinder@michiana.org to register. There's only room for 6 for each class.
Sat, Jan 19 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. Cost for those who have never taken a paste paper class is $48. For those who have, it's the cost of supplies - $30.
Painted Backgrounds
Sat, Jan 26 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. Cost for those who haven't taken this class WITH Anne is $48 and those who have, supplies - $30
Folks can email anbinder@michiana.org to register. There's only room for 6 for each class.
Happenings:
Celebration of the Arts 2013
Annual Juried Spiritual Art
Competition – www.thecelebrationofthearts.com
– February 1 – 13, 2013
WEBSITES TO ENJOY
http://www.lauriedoctor.com/workshops/workshops.html
I enjoy sharing new
websites that I have come across in our blog.
If you come across something that you think would interest the whole
group, please email them to Ginny, Amber or Renee and we will get them on the
blog for the next quarter.
American Frame – Just a reminder that
if you order from American Frame, please mention MCG, and they will give us a
small stipend.
An artist is in a constant state of becoming."
Bob Dylan
UPCOMING GUILD EVENTS
At our Christmas meeting,
we discussed what instructors we would like to have for 2014 and what we want
to review during our meetings every month.
We made a list of our past instructors and some of our members took a
month and an instructor to talk about and possibly demo on that day. The instructors that have been chosen have
impacted the art of that particular member and remains one to whom she goes back for inspiration.
January 5 – Regular meeting
January 5 – Regular meeting
February 2- Jo McPherson
– Sherri Kiesel – Experiment with words on paper
March 2 – Diana Stamper
- Reggie
April 6 - Open
May 4 – Sharon Esmont –
Simple Binding
June 1 – Ginny
VanderHey – Brush lettering – Reggie & Marijo Carney and Louise Grunewald
July 6 – Pat – Sharon
Zeugin
August 3 – Maureen
Trubac – Metals and Annual Picnic
September 7 – Maureen Trubac–
Barbara Mann
October 5 – Lauren Matacio
– Lisa Englebrecht
November 2 – Angie West
– Versals and Thomas Ingmire
December 7 – Annual
Christmas Get Together at the home of Angie West
Cut this part of the
information in the newsletter out, and put it on your fridge.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
Annual dues of $15 are due in July. Our annual dues have not changed in many years and are put to good use for supplies for our make it/take it meetings, annual raffle in August, and, at the end of the year, we give to local charities. Please remember to send your dues to the MCG post office box as soon as possible.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
Annual dues of $15 are due in July. Our annual dues have not changed in many years and are put to good use for supplies for our make it/take it meetings, annual raffle in August, and, at the end of the year, we give to local charities. Please remember to send your dues to the MCG post office box as soon as possible.
OFFICERS
Ginny VanderHey, President 574/262-1345 gvanderhey@hotmail.com
Sharon Esmont, Vice President 574/272-5481 Sesmont@aol.com
Maureen Trubac, Treasurer 574/272–0733 maureentrubac@hotmail.com
Amber Schindler, Secretary 574/360-9128 ambermschindler@gmail.com
Jo McPherson, Study Group Chairperson, jobakestwo@centurylink.net
Amber Schindler & Renee Tuveson – Blog Coordinators
If ever you would like to add to the newsletter/blog, please contact one of the officers, and we will get that information to Amber and Renee. Something you have done or have seen would be welcomed into our information.
Ginny VanderHey, President 574/262-1345 gvanderhey@hotmail.com
Sharon Esmont, Vice President 574/272-5481 Sesmont@aol.com
Maureen Trubac, Treasurer 574/272–0733 maureentrubac@hotmail.com
Amber Schindler, Secretary 574/360-9128 ambermschindler@gmail.com
Jo McPherson, Study Group Chairperson, jobakestwo@centurylink.net
Amber Schindler & Renee Tuveson – Blog Coordinators
If ever you would like to add to the newsletter/blog, please contact one of the officers, and we will get that information to Amber and Renee. Something you have done or have seen would be welcomed into our information.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert Schuller
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
About
the St. John's Bible presentation from Jo McPherson:
The
highlight of our 20th anniversary celebration was Robert Hohl, Reference &
Instruction Librarian at St. Mary's College. He spoke about the making of
the St. John's Bible, which was commissioned by the Benedictine monks at
St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, at the suggestion of Donald
Jackson, one of the foremost calligraphers in the world today.
He
touched on bibles, all hand written of course, from past centuries and how
they influenced this modern bible; the choosing of tools (goose quills),
calfskin vellum, and paints, hand ground as they also were from
ancient times thru the centuries.
