 As
long as I can remember, I loved lettering.
All my first grade notebooks were perfectly drawn. So when
I learned calligraphy in high school, it was like how a fish
takes to water, or a monkey to ink. I had found "it,"
not knowing then that calligraphy would be the thread that
held my life together when everything else kept changing.
For nine years I lettered every issue (53
in all) of a small magazine called Homesteaders News,
which Norm Lee and I published from 1977-1986. I taught calligraphy
since 1977 at various places including Northern Arizona University,
Colorado Institute of Art, Sedona Arts Center, Corning Community
College, and four times at the international lettering arts
conferences. I currently teach in San Francisco for the Friends
of Calligraphy and in workshops around the country.
As a perennial student, I have taken workshops
since 1985. The two teachers who had the greatest influence
on my work are Hermann Zapf, who taught me about precision,
and Dick Beasley, who taught me about freedom. It was Beas
who taught me to explore calligraphy as an art form. I am
forever grateful for his teachings.
My work has been published in Letter Arts
Review (their annual juried show in 1989, 2000, and 2005),
Signs of the Times, Greeting Card Design by Joanne Fink,
100 Calligraphy Tips by Judy Kastin, and The
Art & Craft of Hand Lettering by Annie Cicale. Written
articles have been in Tabellae Ansatae, the Friends
of Calligraphy's Alphabet, and The Mother Earth
News Book of Handicraft Projects. I was the editor/publisher
of the Friends of Calligraphy's Bulletin for two
years.
My greeting cards have been produced by Gibson,
Blue Sky Publishing, and Marcel Schurman, and I have designed
a calendar for Renaissance Publishing. But by far my biggest
challenge, work-wise, has been designing and producing this
web site.
I have had work in numerous juried and non-juried
shows and in July, 2004, had a garden show of collaborative
paintings done with Elsa Marley in Oakland, CA. I had a collaborative
piece in Elsa Marley's show at 525 Market Street in San Francisco
in April, 2005.
The works on these pages are prints and other
pieces I have created since 1989. Many have been sold through
the Red Rose Collection catalog between 1993 and 1998. They
are also available in a number of gift stores around the U.S.
Thank you for visiting my web site. I hope
you enjoy my work. It would be great to hear from you.
Still grinding my
own ink,
Sherrie
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