ROMAN HOLIDAY - 2024 International Conference

Simple Geometric Analysis of the Letters on Trajan’s Column & Drawing Contemporary Capitals as Illustrated by Tom Perkins – Level: (A) All Levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of...

An Italic Journey: Classic to Modern by Viktor Kams – Level: (I) Intermediate Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or...

Creative Versals Variations by Gaynor Goffe – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...

Once Upon a Circle… by Suzie Beringer – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...

Drawn to Letters: A Dutch Approach by Elmo van Slingerland – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Welcome to this letter drawing workshop created for calligraphy and lettering enthusiasts eager to expand their skills and delve into the captivating...

Capital Immersion by John Stevens – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Roman Capitals are magnificent and represent stature and purity of form. However, they are also mutable, meaning that there are many variations. This class starts with studying...

The Circle Keeps Expanding: Influences & Inspirateurs in Iowa by Carl Rohrs – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Influences come from all corners of the writing universe and work that crosses disciplines, styles, and mediums. Everything we see...

Order & Chaos: The Secret of Composition by Massimo Polello – Level: (A) All levels "With order there is peacewith chaos creativitywith order there’s restwith chaos there’s pleasurewith order one can breathewith...

Codes & Other Alphabetic Mysteries by Brody Neuenschwander – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced We do pretty well with our 26 letters. But there are more ways to write a story. In this course we will look at some fanciful ways of creating codes...

Multifaceted Monoprints: Experiments in Movement, Form, Color & Texture by Suzanne Moore – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The play of fluidity and structure, tone, texture and color in the monoprint process offer options to create unique...

'I flamed amazement… by David McGrail – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The pen grazes the paper and the ink flows...A journey begins that follows a straight line—the practice and skill of perfecting letterforms. And the ink spreads...

Father Catich’s Worst Nightmare by Yves Leterme – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced In this five-day workshop students will explore letterforms that hardly bear any resemblance to Catichs’s Trajans. In fact, almost as if to taunt the...

Paper to Print to Book to Art by Joseph Lappie – Level: (A) All levels This 5-day course provides participants the ability to have authorship over the creation of an editioned artist’s book. Four of the days will provide demonstrative...

Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum by Cheryl Jacobsen (Team-teaching with Madison Bennett) – Level: (I) Intermediate This immersive workshop offers hands-on experience turning a raw calfskin into vellum, a chance to handle medieval manuscripts at...

Thinking with Your Hands by Cyrus Highsmith – Level: (A) All levels Letters can be drawn in so many different ways. Cyrus Highsmith’s approach is based heavily on the importance of white space and sensitivity to shapes. It’s a method he...

Stroke Kinesthetics for Broad Pen by Denis Brown – Level: (A) All levels Edward Catich wrote of stroke kinesthetics—he meant the gestural movements in writing. He applied them in remarkably fluid brush writing of Imperial Roman Capitals. In...

A Bookhand Progression by Tim Botts – Level: (A) All levels Our goal will be to move in stages from skeletal “simple hand” forms, to Humanist bookhand, and finally to Roman capitals. All three styles will be demonstrated with time to...

Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum by Madison Bennett (Team-teaching with Cheryl Jacobsen) – Level: (I) Intermediate This immersive workshop offers hands-on experience turning a raw calfskin into vellum, a chance to handle medieval manuscripts at...

Line & Shape: Letter Formation & Calligraphic Composition by Yukimi Annand – Level: (A) All levels I am interested in "forms" of nature, architecture, painting and anything I see surrounding me. As a calligrapher I have been experimenting...

Sharpening the Eye While Training the Hand: Watercolor with Paul Cézanne and Fr. Edward Catich by Christopher Reno – Level: (A) All levels Through this introductory watercolor course we will examine the role that geometric forms play in the...

Contemporary Pointed Pen by Mike Kecseg – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Since the early 19th century when steel flexible pointed pens were introduced, they were used to create traditional letterforms. In the last few years many calligraphers...

Stone Letter Carving 200 by Paul Herrera – Level: (I) Intermediate The student for this course will have taken “Stone Letter Cutting 101” or have had previous letter cutting experience. Instruction will guide the participant from a...

How to Create a Personal Monogram by Liesbet Boudens – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced A monogram is a unique design, composed by two or more interwoven initials. We will research ways to combine letter shapes. Through smallscale pencil sketches...

Copperplate from A to Z by Mike Kecseg – Level: (A) All levels Pointed Pen Scripts have become more popular in the last few years. It seems everyone enjoys doing modern scripts and personal variations, yet fail to have a strong foundation on which...

Stone Letter Carving 101 by Paul Herrera – Level: (B) Beginner This is a beginner’s course on letter cutting in stone. No previous experience required. Instruction will take the student from brush writing to an 8 x 10-inch slate that is fully...

Design & Interpretation for Extraordinary Letters by Liesbet Boudens – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Our aim is to create powerful work using a chosen poem, phrase or sentence. We will start with Romans as a basis for built-up lettering...