Date: Saturday, May 6 and Saturday May 13, 2023; 9:00 - 12:30 and 1:00 - 4:30 ET both days, breaks morning and afternoon
Location: Zoom (this is a virtual workshop)
Instructor: Julie Wildman
About the Workshop
Exploring the possibilities of the monoline letterform, this workshop will guide participants through a series of exercises designed to help you see letters as shapes made of up positive and negative space.
Using all sorts of tools, we will play with monoline gestural writing and distorted (or funky!) upper and lowercase letters. Along the way, we will pay attention to the beauty of the negative space between the forms and learn some simple ways to emphasize that space through color and value. Composition and layout will also be given high priority in all the exercises.
Julie Wildman is a professional in the fields of graphic design, commercial lettering, calligraphy and workshops. Her calligraphic interest began in the late ‘80s after a friend gave her Timothy Botts’ book “Doorposts,” and she saw the written word illustrated in such a way as never before. About ten years later, she had the privilege of taking a year-long class with an internationally known calligrapher and was hooked. She joined the Chicago Calligraphy Collective soon after and embarked on a lifelong journey of studying letters. Since then, her work has been exhibited in juried shows throughout the Midwest and the U.S., including the Newberry Library in Chicago.
In 2007 and 2014, her pieces, “Psalm 117” and “An Alphabet Book,” respectively, won the Newberry’s Purchase Prize Award and became a part of the Library’s permanent collection. Her work has also been published in many issues of Letter Arts Review, Bound & Lettered, and various other type and lettering publications. Two of her more recent works, “Merton Quote” and “Psalm 97:1,” have been purchased by the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) and a private donor for the Harrison Collection at the SFPL.
Julie loves line, shape, color, texture, paper, ink, and paint and often can’t believe she gets to play with them for a living! She enthusiastically shares her love of “beautiful writing” with young and old by teaching calligraphy for staff development classes, on-site promotional events, community programs and personal growth workshops throughout the Chicagoland area, U.S., and Canada. And now, with Zoom classes, she has taught students from more than 22 countries around the world.
For a complete curriculum vitae and to see more of her work, please visit her website at wildmandesigns.com
Cost for this workshop is $95.00 and includes the two days of instruction (via Zoom), videos of the instruction that you will have access to for 60 days after the workshop ends, and copies of Julie's handouts, printed on quality paper, bound, and mailed to you prior to the workshop.