Ann demonstrates the art of marbling for visitors to the Dard Hunter Museum and Mountain House in Chillecothe, OH
Ann demonstrates the art of marbling for visitors to the Dard Hunter Museum and Mountain House in Chillecothe, OH
Residencies and Workshops:AIS
A layered work on Number (above) created in one of several residencies and workshops that Ann offers as an Artist in Schools for the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
Here, Ann used several playful yet directed exercises for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade-- exercises that explore a variety of ways in which the visual impact of our written symbols of language can intersect with theilr function of conveying verbal in- formation. The focus here was on the potential of numbers to be as powerful visual design elements as letters in
carrying both meaning and intense significance, depending on how and in what relationships they are used.
Artists in Schools*
Offerings cover lettering as design, marbling, calligraphy, the medieval decorated letter, color, handwriting, and more.
Public Lectures have covered the history of marbling from its invention in China to its re-invention in Japan and then again in the Middle East, as well as the story of the handwritten word
in two sessions, From Stone to Print
(Antiquity to Movable Type) and
From Press to Penmanship (the Renaissance to the business hands of the 19th and early 20th centuries).
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*Artists in Schools is a program in Community Arts Education of the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH.
AIS class offerings are at www.gcac.org
For more on Workshops for adults,
write aimiaart@gmail.com
Adult Instruction
classes are offered for beginners as well as advanced students
in calligraphy and related arts. Private tutoring in calligraphy and in handwriting repair is also available.
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instruction
Ann
lectures
on hand lettering
history
for the
Aldus
Society
WORKSHOPS for adults take place at AIMIA ART WORKS’ studio in Columbus, Ohio. Classes are offered in Calligraphy,
Handwriting, Turkish Watercolor Marbling, Suminagashi (Japanese Marbling), Decorative Paper Techniques (Paste, Watercolor), and Color Study for Artists--
a practical approach.
Each is limited to 8 or fewer participants. Write for details at aimiaart@gmail.com.
◦ A marvel of water chemistry, the art of Turkish marbling was devised in the early 15th century using fine pigments to create sensuous and rich color patterns.
◦ The aim of suminagashi--Japanese for “floating ink”--was very different. Rather
than being purely decorative, it draws
from a philosophy steeped in Shintoism as a way of creating, then capturing, in visual form, fleeting moments where the human spirit and Nature itself converge.