The show is hanging, the cases are filled, everything is clean and ready for the opening of the First Friday Art Walk.  All the work is done, and all we have left to do is attend the opening and enjoy the visitors, right?
Wrong!
We still have food to set out, and our artist’s statements to display on [...]

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After the morning of hanging all the wall pieces, we were pretty tired, but we decided to press on with the displays.  Gallery One had pedestals we could use to elevate our displays to viewing height, but they had no plexiglas cubes to cover the art, and there weren’t enough pedestals to display all the [...]

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The 2009 Internationa Calligraphy Conference, “Calligraphy Connection 2009″ is almost upon us, and one of the members of our guild will be attending this year.  I can just imagine Sam’s excitement, as this will be her first experience at a huge calligraphy conference, and I have to admit I’m just a bit envious!
Calligraphy Connection happens [...]

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Several weeks ago I stumbled on a calligraphy site, which I foolishly forgot to bookmark (if I find it again, I will bookmark it, and add a link in a post so you can find it too).  Anyway, as I wandered around the site (I’m a lurker), I was intrigued by a post called ‘My [...]

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After my conversation with the two ‘new calligraphers’ last week, I started thinking about why anyone would even want to learn calligraphy in this day of high-speed internet, texting, tweeting, and yes – blogs.  After all, the computer is capable of turning out pages of perfect text that can be customized in any way the [...]

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