I have been reminded by a friend that I have not been posting. My bad.
It's been Christmas and grandchildren and work and an operation ... and life. I hate it when life gets in the way of your passion. It's been a hard winter in Upstate New York. Very cold. It's 21 deg F (-6 C) right now and not expected to get any warmer.
Braodsides have begun to trickle in. I expect the bulk as we get closer to April. It's time to poke the owner of the Venue again to see how that's coming. We hope to have a sample of the exhibit for the Odyssey Calligraphy Conference in Boston, Mass. this July.
As soon as I have a fair selection of braodsides that come in, I'll photograph and post the pictures. This is a very visual town - home of the Eastman Kodak Company (where I work) and every kid grows up with a camera in their hand. So, photos as soon as I can.
Greetings from my Guild - The Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild. Wonderful crew of folks. And I suspect that the Greater Rochester Penmanship and Calligraphy Club (who dabble more in the Ornamental Penmanship area) also says "Hi".
Come on guys. Let's see the broadsides begin to roll on in. If you feel moved to do more than one. Wonderful! If you child or spouse wants to. Wonderful!
Gotta go. Work. Kodak calls.
Mike
Monday, February 1, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
CRANES! CRANES! CRANES!
The Rochester Origami Club informs me that they have completed 500 Peace Cranes for the Installation. Oh my. OH MY! The mind boggles! To think of the color, the interest, the accent to the braodsides that this will add. Like the latter Ingmire California exhibits, if there are sets of 1 or 2 or 3 pair of braodsides hanging - at the tail of each there will be a crane. If there are cranes to spare, they may hang by themselves in an individual string. How cool is that? I am just overwhelmed.
Michael
"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions."
Oscar Arias
Michael
"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions."
Oscar Arias
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I have made connections with two large groups of late - to solicit pieces for the installation. First. The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). These are wonderful folk who are "dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe." As such - they have some really great scribes - or calligraphers if you will. I hope they'll bring different "hands" and much color to the broadsides.
Second. Today I emailed what Calligraphy Guilds in Australia and New Zealand that I could find. How thrilling to look to the other side of the world for artistic input!
By the way. First day of snow in western New York. Winter is on the way.
Anyone moved to send in that first 5x20" broadside?
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
John F. Kennedy
Second. Today I emailed what Calligraphy Guilds in Australia and New Zealand that I could find. How thrilling to look to the other side of the world for artistic input!
By the way. First day of snow in western New York. Winter is on the way.
Anyone moved to send in that first 5x20" broadside?
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
John F. Kennedy
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
May She Have Peace ...
Aside ... after a long struggle with cancer, calligrapher Ann Van Tassell of Blacksburg, Virginia lost her struggle against the long, dark night. Thirteen years is a long time to stay valiant. It is our hope and our prayer that she has found Peace. Blessings on her family and the entire calligraphy community that Ann touched.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Quickly ...
I've posted the BLOG below without any modification. I tried to modify it and the Blog burped on me. It was suggested that I publish the flyer that I've been mailing out to everyone and so here it is.
Mike
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.
Hafsat Abiola
Mike
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.
Hafsat Abiola
It Has Been Suggested ...
“Words For Peace” - An Art Installation
Consider this an invitation to contribute a piece of artful writing and/or calligraphy – or several pieces. Guilds may consider this as a project.
The Story.
Back in 2003, with the war in Iraq immanent, noted calligrapher Thomas Ingmire invited friends and colleagues to participate in a calligraphic art installation on the subjects of war, fear, and peace. Each person was asked to write out a statement on a 5”x20” sheet of paper with the idea of hanging these pieces in the San Francisco Public Library. More than 750 people from twenty-eight nations responded.
“… Some see it as an anti-war protest. Others look at it as a statement about freedom and a plea for world peace that asks each of us to live in this world responsibly … Perhaps … it is a demonstration of the power of passion and of the creative spirit … from the untrained writing of four year olds to the masterly calligraphy of the greatest living scribes … individual efforts … brought together to create a whole that is even richer than its parts... an apt symbol in itself for the idea of a peaceful world." T.I.
You can check out the website: www.wordsforpeace.org/
Click on EXHIBITION on the left
Click on “click to view” on the lower right
Enjoy the slide show of the 2008 installation at the Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
… and follow my BLOG at … http://wordsforpeace2010.blogspot.com/
Present day: Thomas Ingmire has graciously given me permission to replicate a scaled down version of the installation in Rochester, NY. On behalf of myself and the Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild, I’d like to invite you to contribute.
I’ll shift the focus a bit for this version of the installation. Words For Peace. That’s the theme: PEACE - in all of its forms and manifestations. Peace on earth, Peace to mankind. Peace between peoples, between countries, races, and religions. Peace of the Spirit. Peace of God. Give Peace a Chance. Peace of Mind … take it where you will. So think Peace.
The ground rules – by Mike (I’ll take the heat).
o The venue is Lori’s Natural Foods, Henrietta (Fire Marshall APPROVED!!!).
o I’d like to receive submissions between Thanksgiving 2009 and Easter 2010.
o We’ll mount the exhibition in the Spring of 2010.
o The paper used shall be … well, paper. Not metal or whatever. Weight issues. I’d go Strathmore watercolor or drawing paper. Or any color paper.
o The writing medium is up to the artist/calligrapher. Watercolor. Inks. Crayon.
o The style is wide open; italic, Blackletter (Ward Dunham – you out there?), Illumination, abstract, uncial, italic, foundational, copperplate, etc., etc., etc.
o The theme is PEACE. From any angle. Can be Biblical. Can wax poetic. A word. A phrase. A story. Ghandi. MLKing. Your call.
o Lots of quote websites out there. Google “peace” and “quotes”.
o We’d like to keep vulgarity down. My son the artist says that’s difficult in an anti-war statement – try hard (Peter – you listening?). This is why it’s more “PEACE.” The venue will be kid friendly. Think gentle. The venue folks have suggested more thoughts of “peace” and less “anti-war” statements.
o Try to steer clear of personality bashing. Like the “Hey, Hey, LBJ …” chant from the 60’s. If you remember the 60s.
o Will I receive a response from Mike? Nah … we’ve got a beer budget. But we may post your name on the blog as they arrive.
o Will I receive my work back? Nah … it’s really a “light beer” budget. It may well be saved for future installations.
o Will I be reimbursed for my materials? What? Go fish.
o What kind of envelope would I use to mail it? I have no idea. But feel free to fold it in half to mail it.
o If you would, in light pencil, in small letters somewhere on the piece; your name and who you’re associated with – school, calligraphy guild, church – and your age if you wish.
o Photos will, no doubt, be posted to the Callig Graphics Board after the opening.
o Yes, you can do more than one piece – I’d encourage it.
Are you game? This is not a formal framed piece for an Art Guild show. Do you desire Peace In Our Time? Is there a fire in your belly? Commit it to paper and mail it off to me. We really want to see your work up in the air with hundreds of others. Challenge the rest of your Guild to this as well. What say?
Need more info: mwarner51@yahoo.com
Again … I’m blogging! http://wordsforpeace2010.blogspot.com/
Yours,
Mike Warner
Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild
157 Cherry Road
Rochester, NY 14612-5651
USA
Consider this an invitation to contribute a piece of artful writing and/or calligraphy – or several pieces. Guilds may consider this as a project.
The Story.
Back in 2003, with the war in Iraq immanent, noted calligrapher Thomas Ingmire invited friends and colleagues to participate in a calligraphic art installation on the subjects of war, fear, and peace. Each person was asked to write out a statement on a 5”x20” sheet of paper with the idea of hanging these pieces in the San Francisco Public Library. More than 750 people from twenty-eight nations responded.
“… Some see it as an anti-war protest. Others look at it as a statement about freedom and a plea for world peace that asks each of us to live in this world responsibly … Perhaps … it is a demonstration of the power of passion and of the creative spirit … from the untrained writing of four year olds to the masterly calligraphy of the greatest living scribes … individual efforts … brought together to create a whole that is even richer than its parts... an apt symbol in itself for the idea of a peaceful world." T.I.
You can check out the website: www.wordsforpeace.org/
Click on EXHIBITION on the left
Click on “click to view” on the lower right
Enjoy the slide show of the 2008 installation at the Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
… and follow my BLOG at … http://wordsforpeace2010.blogspot.com/
Present day: Thomas Ingmire has graciously given me permission to replicate a scaled down version of the installation in Rochester, NY. On behalf of myself and the Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild, I’d like to invite you to contribute.
I’ll shift the focus a bit for this version of the installation. Words For Peace. That’s the theme: PEACE - in all of its forms and manifestations. Peace on earth, Peace to mankind. Peace between peoples, between countries, races, and religions. Peace of the Spirit. Peace of God. Give Peace a Chance. Peace of Mind … take it where you will. So think Peace.
The ground rules – by Mike (I’ll take the heat).
o The venue is Lori’s Natural Foods, Henrietta (Fire Marshall APPROVED!!!).
o I’d like to receive submissions between Thanksgiving 2009 and Easter 2010.
o We’ll mount the exhibition in the Spring of 2010.
o The paper used shall be … well, paper. Not metal or whatever. Weight issues. I’d go Strathmore watercolor or drawing paper. Or any color paper.
o The writing medium is up to the artist/calligrapher. Watercolor. Inks. Crayon.
o The style is wide open; italic, Blackletter (Ward Dunham – you out there?), Illumination, abstract, uncial, italic, foundational, copperplate, etc., etc., etc.
o The theme is PEACE. From any angle. Can be Biblical. Can wax poetic. A word. A phrase. A story. Ghandi. MLKing. Your call.
o Lots of quote websites out there. Google “peace” and “quotes”.
o We’d like to keep vulgarity down. My son the artist says that’s difficult in an anti-war statement – try hard (Peter – you listening?). This is why it’s more “PEACE.” The venue will be kid friendly. Think gentle. The venue folks have suggested more thoughts of “peace” and less “anti-war” statements.
o Try to steer clear of personality bashing. Like the “Hey, Hey, LBJ …” chant from the 60’s. If you remember the 60s.
o Will I receive a response from Mike? Nah … we’ve got a beer budget. But we may post your name on the blog as they arrive.
o Will I receive my work back? Nah … it’s really a “light beer” budget. It may well be saved for future installations.
o Will I be reimbursed for my materials? What? Go fish.
o What kind of envelope would I use to mail it? I have no idea. But feel free to fold it in half to mail it.
o If you would, in light pencil, in small letters somewhere on the piece; your name and who you’re associated with – school, calligraphy guild, church – and your age if you wish.
o Photos will, no doubt, be posted to the Callig Graphics Board after the opening.
o Yes, you can do more than one piece – I’d encourage it.
Are you game? This is not a formal framed piece for an Art Guild show. Do you desire Peace In Our Time? Is there a fire in your belly? Commit it to paper and mail it off to me. We really want to see your work up in the air with hundreds of others. Challenge the rest of your Guild to this as well. What say?
Need more info: mwarner51@yahoo.com
Again … I’m blogging! http://wordsforpeace2010.blogspot.com/
Yours,
Mike Warner
Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild
157 Cherry Road
Rochester, NY 14612-5651
USA
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
What I told the Washington, DC Guild
I feel the need to clarify a few items.
First I am neither the best nor the most prolific calligrapher in our Guild. But I can REALLY organize. As Thomas Ingmire did, I want to bring this installation together because I believe in it. In the end it will not be my installation. I do not intend for my name to be on it. It will be the sum of so many people and their skills and their hearts. It will be the sum of many parts. It will be a living, breathing piece of art. I've heard the term "People's Art." I hope that this goes in that direction.
So it's not Mike's. It's not our Guild's. I am hoping that it will have a National and a World flavor to it. And that it will cross ethnic, religious, gender and age lines.
(can you believe all of this? my son cannot. peter is a liberal, democrat, vegan, artist and dad is a republican, conservative, carnivore working in research - he cannot believe that this project is coming out of dad. you really cannot pigeon hole the old man. ;) )
Yours,
Mike up in Rochester
First I am neither the best nor the most prolific calligrapher in our Guild. But I can REALLY organize. As Thomas Ingmire did, I want to bring this installation together because I believe in it. In the end it will not be my installation. I do not intend for my name to be on it. It will be the sum of so many people and their skills and their hearts. It will be the sum of many parts. It will be a living, breathing piece of art. I've heard the term "People's Art." I hope that this goes in that direction.
So it's not Mike's. It's not our Guild's. I am hoping that it will have a National and a World flavor to it. And that it will cross ethnic, religious, gender and age lines.
(can you believe all of this? my son cannot. peter is a liberal, democrat, vegan, artist and dad is a republican, conservative, carnivore working in research - he cannot believe that this project is coming out of dad. you really cannot pigeon hole the old man. ;) )
Yours,
Mike up in Rochester
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