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WORKSHOPS

Calligraphy Guild Pittsburgh offers workshops by renowned artists several times a year, both online and in-person. 

Upcoming Workshops

    • February 15, 2025
    • February 23, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • Online [Zoom]
    • 27
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    Four Online Workshop Sessions

    February 15, 16, 22, and 23 • 11am - 1pm EST


    Letters act as practical and useful signs, but also as pure and inner melody.

    - Wassily Kandinsky


    Pure form, the quality of the line and the ornamental potential of writing - this is what it´s all about in this workshop class. We will play with letterform variations, experiment with layout ideas, and then finish it all up with a spark of gold. Our basic alphabet will be the Antiqua-letterforms; even if you have not  tried writing them yet, your eye is used to them. We will practice and play with them, transform them and create new compositions. You will be led step-by-step through the creative process up to a final work. Gold will be incorporated and the sessions will also cover various glittering effects, highlighting techniques, and a very easy way of gilding. Let's have fun! 


    ANDREA WUNDERLICH is a freelance calligrapher and book artist from Germany. She works on commissions in various applications, including sign-painting, lettering, logo design, and murals. Andrea enjoys tracing the historic paths of alphabets while exploring contemporary calligraphic expressions and transformations.  Her art is shown both nationally and worldwide and is included in forums such as Berlin's Calligraphy Collection, San Francisco's Center of Book Arts, and the International Museum for Contemporary Calligraphy in Moscow. 


    Andrea is a member of the German ars scribendi and Schreibwerkstatt Klingspor Offenbach Societies; London's Letter Exchange; and San Francisco's Friends of Calligraphy. She is also a Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society [CLAS] fellow. 


    www.andreawunderlich.com / instagram: wunderliche_welt



    WORKSHOP COST: 

    $100 for CGP Members • $120 for Non-Members


    The class will be recorded and made available via a private link to participants up to 60 days following the final session. 

    Zoom link and handouts will be emailed to registrants by February 10. 

    Our cancellation policy is detailed  HERE.

    • April 26, 2025
    • April 27, 2025
    • 2 sessions
    • 19

    Breaking the Rules

    Expressive calligraphy workshop with Mike Gold.

Previous Workshops

2023-24 Year of the Hand: Uncial

Copperplate Boot Camp with Nina Tran 

Copperplate Intensive with Nina Tran

Uncialicious: Introduction to Uncial  4-class with Jane Shibata

The Book of Kells: It's History and Beauty lecture by Meredith Klein

Lively Lettering with an Irish Flair with Meredith Klein

Walnut Ink Explorations guild play day

Cut-and-Paste layout and design guild play day

Annual Meeting with Gel Plate Printing

Show of Hands Exhibit at Monroeville Library


2022-23 Year of the Hand: Blackletter

Hardcover Accordian Spine Book with Amy Spencer

Collage: Accents in Gold with Judy Melvin

Introduction to Blackletter 6-week class with Meredith Klein

Fraktur & Flourish with Nina Tran

Pointed Pen Blackletter with Mike Kecseg


2021-22 Hand of the Year: Italic

Bold & Blended Chunky Caps with Amity Parks

The Glittering Vine with Heather Held

Intro to Celtic Knots with Nancy Hills

Italic Capitals - Swash and Double Stroke with Holly Monroe

Fantastic Flourishes with Holly Monroe

Writing and Mark Making with Gouache with Myrna Rosen


2020-21 

Variations on Akim with Julie Wildman

Ben Shahn Letters with Carol DuBosch

Writing with a Bent Nib 4-week hybrid class with Randy Hasson

Beginning Spencerian 4-week class with Pat Blair

Rubber Stamp Carving with Dana Dunaway


2019 - 20

Flourishing, Envelopes & Etiquette with Suzanne Cunningham

Be Illuminated with Weldon Doran

Digital Resources for Calligraphers with Emily Martin

     and Karen Nordstrom Roberts


Contemporary Scripts with Mike Gold

Introduction to Foundational Calligraphy with Lily Hoy

      and Karen Nordstrom Roberts


2018-2019

Gothicized Italic with Barry Morentz

Four Quarters with Judy Melvin

Spontaneous Marks with Pamela Paulsrud

Lucious Layers with Jacqueline Sullivan

Ampersands with Myrna Rosen

40 Year Retrospective exhibit


2017-2018

Seastones with Maria Helena Hoksch

Word Pictures with Tim Botts

40th Anniversary Celebration


2016-2017

Modern Versals with Gemma Black

Greeting Cards Design with Judy Melvin

Getting Creative with Instagram with Kathleen Prumo

Life Lines with Pamela Paulsrud

Marker Magic with Karen Nordstrom Roberts

Dressed-Down Copperplate with Pat Blair

Mystic Art exhibit


2015-2016

Dancing Pen with Carri Imai

The Ruling Pen with Julian Waters

Make Your Capitals Sing with Myrna Rosen

Calligraphy on Canvas with Roann Mathias


2014-2015

Neuland with Script with Judy Melvin

Vitalize Your Hands with Christopher Haanes

Simple Books with Lily Hoy

Dry Embossing with Myrna Rosen

Intro to Pointed Pen with Guild Representatives

Carolingian with Myrna Rosen

Versal Letter Studies with Thomas Ingmire

Monroeville Library exhibit


2013-14

Blackletter (Textura) with Julian Waters

Blackletter (Fraktur) with Julian Waters

Flotsam & Jetsam with Laurie Doctor

Historic Review Series with Myrna Rosen



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