Roman Holiday 2024
Hosted by the Chicago Calligraphy Collective at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa
June 22-29, 2024 | Conference website
PRE-ORDER DEADLINE: JUNE 13, 2024
Hello! Ciao! Ave! After a five year hiatus, our international calligraphic community will gather IN PERSON for Roman Holiday 2024, the 40th Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Conference! While we’re excited just to gather in the same location after such a long time, St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa provides the reason why we celebrate coming together as a community. St. Ambrose University (SAU) was the home of Father Edward Catich, whose seminal book The Origin of the Serif has influenced countless lettering artists. It is now the home of Father Catich’s extensive archives and his contribution to our history simply insists on being recognized and honored. Our hope is that the theme of Roman Holiday captures our collective journey from formal, traditional rules of historical form to personal, creative expression.
Your pre-order must be placed prior to June 13, 2024. Should you need help with placing the order, please give us a call! 336-272-6139 or 800-369-9598. The conference supply lists are below for easy ordering.
Online participants (Series D) will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded participation. Schedule will be posted prior to class selection.
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ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Tom Perkins - Simple Geometric Analysis of the Letters on Trajan’s Column & Drawing Contemporary Capitals as Illustrated
Simple Geometric Analysis of the Letters on Trajan’s Column & Drawing Contemporary Capitals as Illustrated by Tom Perkins – Level: (A) All Levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Viktor Kams - An Italic Journey: Classic to Modern
An Italic Journey: Classic to Modern by Viktor Kams – Level: (I) Intermediate Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Gaynor Goffe - Creative Versals Variations
Creative Versals Variations by Gaynor Goffe – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - ONLINE - Suzie Beringer - Once Upon a Circle…
Once Upon a Circle… by Suzie Beringer – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Elmo van Slingerland - Drawn to Letters: A Dutch Approach
Drawn to Letters: A Dutch Approach by Elmo van Slingerland – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Welcome to this letter drawing workshop created for calligraphy and lettering enthusiasts eager to expand their skills and delve into the captivating...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - John Stevens - Capital Immersion
Capital Immersion by John Stevens – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Roman Capitals are magnificent and represent stature and purity of form. However, they are also mutable, meaning that there are many variations. This class starts with studying...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Carl Rohrs - The Circle Keeps Expanding: Influences & Inspirateurs in Iowa
The Circle Keeps Expanding: Influences & Inspirateurs in Iowa by Carl Rohrs – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Influences come from all corners of the writing universe and work that crosses disciplines, styles, and mediums. Everything we see...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Massimo Polello - Order & Chaos: The Secret of Composition
Order & Chaos: The Secret of Composition by Massimo Polello – Level: (A) All levels "With order there is peacewith chaos creativitywith order there’s restwith chaos there’s pleasurewith order one can breathewith...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Brody Neuenschwander - Codes & Other Alphabetic Mysteries
Codes & Other Alphabetic Mysteries by Brody Neuenschwander – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced We do pretty well with our 26 letters. But there are more ways to write a story. In this course we will look at some fanciful ways of creating codes...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Suzanne Moore - Multifaceted Monoprints: Experiments in Movement, Form, Color & Texture
Multifaceted Monoprints: Experiments in Movement, Form, Color & Texture by Suzanne Moore – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The play of fluidity and structure, tone, texture and color in the monoprint process offer options to create unique...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - David McGrail - 'I flamed amazement…
'I flamed amazement… by David McGrail – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The pen grazes the paper and the ink flows...A journey begins that follows a straight line—the practice and skill of perfecting letterforms. And the ink spreads...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Yves Leterme - Father Catich’s Worst Nightmare
Father Catich’s Worst Nightmare by Yves Leterme – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced In this five-day workshop students will explore letterforms that hardly bear any resemblance to Catichs’s Trajans. In fact, almost as if to taunt the...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Joseph Lappie - Paper to Print to Book to Art
Paper to Print to Book to Art by Joseph Lappie – Level: (A) All levels This 5-day course provides participants the ability to have authorship over the creation of an editioned artist’s book. Four of the days will provide demonstrative...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Cheryl Jacobsen - Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum
Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum by Cheryl Jacobsen (Team-teaching with Madison Bennett) – Level: (I) Intermediate This immersive workshop offers hands-on experience turning a raw calfskin into vellum, a chance to handle medieval manuscripts at...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Cyrus Highsmith - Thinking with Your Hands
Thinking with Your Hands by Cyrus Highsmith – Level: (A) All levels Letters can be drawn in so many different ways. Cyrus Highsmith’s approach is based heavily on the importance of white space and sensitivity to shapes. It’s a method he...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Reggie Ezell - Rambunctious Roman Variations
Rambunctious Roman Variations by Reggie Ezell – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced OK. So you wake up with the worst head cold in your life and this afternoon you have a commission due: a short quote that has to look exuberant, and you sure don't...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Denis Brown - Stroke Kinesthetics for Broad Pen
Stroke Kinesthetics for Broad Pen by Denis Brown – Level: (A) All levels Edward Catich wrote of stroke kinesthetics—he meant the gestural movements in writing. He applied them in remarkably fluid brush writing of Imperial Roman Capitals. In...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Tim Botts - A Bookhand Progression
A Bookhand Progression by Tim Botts – Level: (A) All levels Our goal will be to move in stages from skeletal “simple hand” forms, to Humanist bookhand, and finally to Roman capitals. All three styles will be demonstrated with time to...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Madison Bennett - Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum
Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum by Madison Bennett (Team-teaching with Cheryl Jacobsen) – Level: (I) Intermediate This immersive workshop offers hands-on experience turning a raw calfskin into vellum, a chance to handle medieval manuscripts at...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: -
ROMAN HOLIDAY 2024 - Yukimi Annand - Line & Shape: Letter Formation & Calligraphic Composition
Line & Shape: Letter Formation & Calligraphic Composition by Yukimi Annand – Level: (A) All levels I am interested in "forms" of nature, architecture, painting and anything I see surrounding me. As a calligrapher I have been experimenting...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:Subtotal: