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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
 International Calligraphy Conferences:
2022 - Write on the Edge, the 40th International Calligraphy Conference, has been CANCELED DUE TO COVID.
2023 - The Society for Calligraphy, Southern California presents the 16th annual members’ conference, February 17-20, 2023
2024 - Chicago, IL with Lisa Kivland & Kathy Mandell
2025 - Alabama/Tennessee area with Dana Jacobsen
2026 - Puerto Rico with Nereidin Feliciano
Pre-recorded workshops from Legacies III, the 39th International Calligraphy Conference
 Pointed Pen Calligraphy Conferences:
2022: IAMPETH Annual Conference: July 11-16 in Atlanta
2023: IAMPETH Annual Conference will be in Scranton, PA
 Workshops and classes:
John Neal's national lists of upcoming online calligraphy classes and calligraphy conferences and retreats.
 Washington Calligraphers Guild workshops are held on weekends in the spring and fall. [Art at right by WCG member and past president Pat Blair, a popular instructor.]
Calligraphy classes in the Washington area.
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
CALLIGRAPHY SUPPLIES
Paper & Ink Arts
Specialized calligraphy supply shop serving calligraphers worldwide. Available for online shopping 24/7. (Their retail store in Nashville, TN is open M-F 10-4).
John Neal Books
In addition to his enormous selection of calligraphy books, John Neal supplies calligraphers with tools and fine papers. Publishes Letter Arts Review magazine and is selling back issues of Bound & Lettered, with practical information on bookbinding and papercraft.
<< Art at left by Suzanne Cunningham.
GUILDS AND SOCIETIES
 IAMPETH: The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers & Teachers of Handwriting (specializing in pointed pen scripts)
<< Art at left by Michael Sull
Calligraphy Guilds and Societies in the U.S. and Canada
(compiled in 2020/21 by Tammi Jo Klajnbart of Summit Scribes)
Meet Our WCG Members:
Calligraphic achievements of some of our professional and amateur members.
Videos worth viewing
Tour of the White House Calligraphy Office presented by C-Span (2008)
featuring WCG members Pat Blair, Debra Brown and Rick Muffler
British Library video clips and text on how medieval manuscripts were created
Why Write? Penmanship for the 21st Century by Jake Weidmann presented at TEDxMileHigh
Turning Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ into a work of art -- PBS NewsHour presentation
PBS Newshour report Is cursive handwriting slowly dying out in America?
 Calligraphic Styles:
PDF shows 10 different calligraphy hands using both broad-edged and pointed pens.
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.
 The Aberdeen Bestiary: the story behind a medieval manuscript
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin offers images of its collection of Western, Islamic and East Asian manuscripts.
Websites devoted to manuscripts
Clare Tames' blog, "A Beginner's Guide to Calligraphy" with history of the craft
How to Write Calligraphy
 [images at right: practicing the italic hand and uncial lettering]
BFH Fluent Handwriting Manual and CD-ROM Fix It ... Write to correct, improve or change one's handwriting. Both by WCG's Nan Jay Barchowsky
It's Not What You Write, It's How Your Write It by Nancy Ungar
Kathleen S. McCann, former White House calligrapher, has written Have Pen will Travel: Tales and Travels of a White House Calligrapher
CalligraScape
 free how-to videos of numerous calligraphic styles.
Washington DC Fountain Pen Supershow
August 5-7, 2022 at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church, VA
with demonstrations by professional calligraphers
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.
Ductus, a simple guidelines generator for calligraphers
How-To Guides
WCG Photo Albums:
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