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2020 - Canceled: Kranjska Gora, Slovenia hosts Write Right Now! 2020, the World Calligraphy Conference Jun 27 – Jul 1, 2020 2020 - Red Deer's ABC 2020 Calligraphy Conference In Alberta, Canada, has been postponed until August 2021. 2021 - LEGACIES III in Dallas, TX, the
39th International Lettering Arts Conference, July 3-10, 2021 (Angie Vangelis, director)
POSTPONED until 2022: IAMPETH Annual Conference 2020 2021: IAMPETH Annual Conference 2021
Washington Calligraphers Guild workshops are held on weekends in the spring and fall. Calligraphy classes in the Washington area. John Neal's list of national calligraphy workshops and events Cheerio Calligraphy Retreats are week-long calligraphy workshops in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. New York City Society of Scribes workshops Philadelphia Calligraphers' Society workshops Southern California's Society for Calligraphy workshops Chicago Calligraphy Collection workshops
John
Neal, Bookseller
The International
Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers Calligraphy Guilds and Societies in the U.S. and Canada 2019 The Association for the Calligraphic Arts has been suspended.
RESOURCES
The Graceful Envelope Contest Sheila Waters' 2006 textbook, The penmen who lettered the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution Join the excellent calligraphic community listserv CYBERSCRIBES, which has moved to https://groups.io/g/Cyberscribes BFH Fluent Handwriting Manual and CD-ROM -- instructional handwriting package for all ages. Videos worth viewing Calligraphic Styles
Renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson was commissioned to letter and illuminate The Saint John's Bible in 1998. The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in US museums and libraries. Digital images from The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin offers images of its collection of Western, Islamic and East Asian manuscripts. Irish Script on Screen:: digital images of Irish manuscripts The History of Visual Communication Clare Tames' blog, "A Beginner's Guide to Calligraphy" Washington DC Fountain Pen Supershow Amsterdam Printing's The Benefits of Handwriting resource delves into the benefits of students learning how to write cursive. The guide includes cursive's positive influence on fine motor control, recall, self-evaluation, sequence and word connection, and later educational achievements. And it also covers the fact that the practice can lead to more legible writing which can positively affect test scores that require hand-written portions.
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