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Lettering art and other society
Sun, May. 4th, 2008 08:26 amI've learned that there are conventions for everything. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shellyinseattle, who is becoming quite an accomplished calligrapher, invited me to join her for the local calligrapher's convention, Letters of Joy. I was only able to attend the keynote on Friday evening, but it was quite good, a speech and slideshow by Louise Grunewald, a prominent calligrapher and artist (beautiful work!). I also got to troll the dealer's "room", 5-6 tables full of the sort of things that made the crafter and amateur artist in me just swoon: fancy papers, inks, calligraphy pens of all sorts, paint, string (for book binding), and books, books, books. The art show was also small but quite lovely. Oddly, the largest part of the show was the silent auction (which was raising money to offset conference costs). I didn't win the one thing I bid on, which was fine. Nice evening, overall; glad I went.
Spent yesterday afternoon withwanton_heat_jet at a barbecue with his coworkers. Good food, fine company, evening if the weather wasn't as cooperative as we would have preferred. I had been stressed about attending for a number of reasons and, while my reasons were fairly well-founded, in the end I needn't have worried.
shellyinseattle, who is becoming quite an accomplished calligrapher, invited me to join her for the local calligrapher's convention, Letters of Joy. I was only able to attend the keynote on Friday evening, but it was quite good, a speech and slideshow by Louise Grunewald, a prominent calligrapher and artist (beautiful work!). I also got to troll the dealer's "room", 5-6 tables full of the sort of things that made the crafter and amateur artist in me just swoon: fancy papers, inks, calligraphy pens of all sorts, paint, string (for book binding), and books, books, books. The art show was also small but quite lovely. Oddly, the largest part of the show was the silent auction (which was raising money to offset conference costs). I didn't win the one thing I bid on, which was fine. Nice evening, overall; glad I went.Spent yesterday afternoon with
wanton_heat_jet at a barbecue with his coworkers. Good food, fine company, evening if the weather wasn't as cooperative as we would have preferred. I had been stressed about attending for a number of reasons and, while my reasons were fairly well-founded, in the end I needn't have worried.