Calligraphy Day, Nov. 5 at SFPL
As part of the Calligraphies in Conversation 2017 Exhibition, we invite everyone to join our Calligraphy Day Venue on November 5, 2017, 1- 3 p.m.: Calligraphy Demonstrations at the Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room on the Lower Level (below First Floor) of San Francisco Public Library
Two local calligraphy masters, Ronald Y. Nakasone and Meredith Jane Klein, and one international master, , from UK will give calligraphy demonstrations on different traditions and scripts and participants would get a chance to experience calligraphy of various cultures from up close.
The program is free and open to the public.
3- 5 p.m.: Curator’s Tour and meeting the artists at Skylight Gallery on the sixth floor of San Francisco Public Library
Address: San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
About the Calligraphy Masters
Akemi Lucas: “Koshu” is the identity of Akemi Lucas as a Japanese Calligraphy master. She was born in Japan and started learning calligraphy from the age of eight. Her distinct style of calligraphy builds on traditional skills, and further embodies the fusion of the ancient and the modern, the eastern and the western, and the before and the after. Currently, she is based in the UK as a Japanese artist, predominantly working on exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops and commissions. Her artworks are now seen and loved internationally.
Ronald Y. Nakasone: Ronald Y. Nakasone, a student of sho (calligraphy) for more than 40 years, believes the task of the sho-artist is to give form to the formless inner landscape of being. A short video, “A Calligrapher’s Pilgrimage” can be seen at the following site: vimeo.com/106988457. As an academic, he has published widely on Buddhist doctrine, ethics, and aesthetics, aging and spirituality, and Ryūkyūan (Okinawan) Studies. He co-edited Asian American Religious Cultures (ABC-CLIO, 2015).
Meredith Jane Klein: Meredith Jane Klein is a calligrapher and artist living in the SF Bay Area. She discovered calligraphy, in the form of gothic blackletter, in high school. For years she was self-taught, finally taking a class in 1992. Since then, she has studied with many world-renowned calligraphers.
Meredith is secretary and membership chair of Friends of Calligraphy (FOC). She does commercial calligraphy, including commissions, social calligraphy, and on-site promotions and demonstrations. A member of a collaborative artist book group, her work has been featured in Bound & Lettered and Alphabet (FOC’s journal). Meredith teaches calligraphy for FOC and gives private lessons.
About Calligraphies in Conversation 2017
Over 70 artworks will be on display at the at Skylight Gallery of SFPL with a range of diverse traditions and languages including an array of Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Baybayin, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Armenian, and Hindi traditional calligraphy artworks as well as manifestations of calligraphy in some contemporary and abstract art pieces. MORE!
