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Teaching
I have developed two calligraphy classes that I teach online year round at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
The beginning class is Calligraphy & Letterform, which I built in 2003 to conform roughly with the onsite class; it is required for graduation in the Graphic Design department. The course covers the basic historical hands and the history of writing in 15 modules, with an introduction to writing in layers, gestural writing, tool making, and brush stroke. There is much discussion regarding the "why" of writing as well as the "how to".
Advanced Calligraphy was written in 2005 using Andre Gurtler's text "Experiments with Letterform and Calligraphy" as the text with my own videos, demos, slideshows, and explanations. Highly interactive. The outcomes are related to the book arts as well as the painterly arts, and are based on gaining a more thorough understanding of the visual field.
I will be posting a small gallery here of some of the students' work over the last few years.
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