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2022
Calligrapher Gina Jonas is living in St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Professional experience: 41 years as a freelance calligrapher
Author: Finding the Flow: A Calligraphic Journey (2006) and Calligraphy as Art and Meditation: A New Approach (2018).
Gina Jonas many years teaching workshops, classes, and private students.
DESCRIPTION OF CREATIVE WORKSHOP (distance)
To practice calligraphy as meditation, we cultivate greater awareness of ourselves as human beings. Through guided exercises, we explore the vital relationships between mind, breath, tool, surface, and form. Becoming present, using the breath and the senses, we discover our own expressive potential through the movement, energy, rhythm, and feeling of written letterform. In this practice, we also cultivate kindness and patience as we allow ourselves to slow down, and to learn at our own pace for our own purposes.
This workshop aims to develop your confidence and your creative potential.
Calligrapher Gina Jonas will lead the joint workshop with Ona Bajorinienė Calligraphy as Meditation.
Preparation of participants: no experience necessary.
Number of participants: max 15 people.
Tools and materials will be provided by organizers.
We will communicate in English at this distance workshop. An interpreter will help communicate.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
5th of October
5.00 pm. Introduce joint workshop with Ona Bajorinienė
Ona’s Workshop: “Good Words”
Gina’s Workshop: An Introduction to Calligraphy as Meditation
5.45 – 6.15 pm. Embodiment exercises
Body awakening sequence
The “Prototool” (index finger): introduces the concept of a tool as an extension of your body
“Compass”: directing line as a mental, rhythmic, and felt experience
6.15 – 7.15 pm. Alphabet exercises:
Introduction to “Playball”: a warmup alphabet focusing on movement
Letter elements (shape and line), visualizing and spacing
7.15 – 8.00 pm. Writing exercise: “Good Words” and/or your name. Introducing the expressive potential of written words through design elements of weight, line direction, spacing, repetition.
6th of October
5.00 pm. Introduce our complementary exercises:
Ona: Acquaintance with Colors
Gina: Sensitizing Exercises: Contact and Gesture
5.10 pm. Acquaintance with Colors
6.00 – 6.30 pm. Contact and gesture exercises to awaken touch and muscular movement
Energizing body and hand warmup
Gestural movement (2 pencils)
Sensitizing exercises: pressure, pushing, and pulling – the forces that connect us to the writing surface, and energize us.
6.30 – 7.15 pm. Alphabet exercises:
Introduction to “Jumprope,” an alphabet featuring contact and gesture
Letter elements (shape and line)
Letterform as visual pattern, repeated and free
7.15 – 8.00 pm. Writing exercise: “Good Words” and/or your name.
Suggestions for experimenting with expression through:
Design elements, and
Different tools
7th of October
5.00 pm. Introduce our complementary exercises:
Ona: “Boundary Exercise”
Gina: “Graphopoeia”
5.10 pm. Boundary exercise
5.45/6.00 – 7.30/7.40 pm. “Graphopoeia”: an exploration of calligraphic expression
Explain Graphopoeia and “calligraphic empathy”: where verbal language (a word) becomes visual expression
Choosing your word
Graphopoeia: an exercise in imagination—discovering letters as “characters,” as expressive enactments of thoughts and feelings. This is fun…it invites a sense of play!
Last 15 or 20 minutes: sharing your thoughts.
Workshops will be held at the Klaipėda Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts in the auditorium named after Prof. A. Kliševičius. Address Daržų st. 18, Klaipeda
The digitized works of the participants of the creative workshops will be exhibited on the website of the School of Calligraphy and Lettering Art: http://www.ink4.art/ and on the school social accounts.
Ona Bajorinienė was born in Klaipeda in 1977. Achieved bachelor degree in political sciences in 1999 in Klaipėda University and bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Administration in 2009. Has qualification and licences to provide services as neuroeducator and neuropractic, issued by The Institute for Personality Development Rafaelis. From 2020 works in children and youth day center – implements sociocultural projects, organises volunteer work and public procurement procedures, provides educational activities and lectures for children and adults.
Neuroeducator Ona Bajorinienė will lead the joint workshop with Gina Jonas Calligraphy as Meditation.
Preparation of participants: no experience necessary.
Number of participants: max 15 people.
We will communicate in English in this distance workshop.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
5th of October
Short introduction of NEM (neuroeducational) methods.
Exercise “Good words”. It is an exercise dedicated for developing social intelligence. The uniqueness of this exercise is that it’s dedicated to revive one of the most important power of human consciousness- to love and to be loved. During the reflection time it is explained how important it is to recognize the good features about oneself.
Time: 3 minutes + 15 min reflection.
6th of October
Exercise “Acquaintance by colors” – method of acquaintance based on art therapy.
The goals are:
– to listen to yourself, choose colors intuitively for emotion and feeling.
– to paint emotions and feelings in color.
– to say compliments.
– to develop imagination, intuition and creativity.
Time: 20 minutes + 10 minutes reflection.
7th of October
Exercise “Boundaries” dedicated for development of emotional intelligence.
The goals are:
– to develop understanding of one’s own and others’ limits, dignity and tolerance.
– to develop communication skills in two, responsibility for one’s actions, adherence to agreements.
– to learn naming your own advantages and disadvantages.
Time:10-15min. + 15 min reflection.
Workshops will be held at the Klaipėda Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts in the auditorium named after Prof. A. Kliševičius. Address Daržų st. 18, Klaipeda
The digitized works of the participants of the creative workshops will be exhibited on the website of the School of Calligraphy and Lettering Art: http://www.ink4.art/ and on the school social accounts.
My name is Pauliina Yliniitty. I live with my family in a small town called Oulainen in Finland. I have three children; two sons and a daughter.
Twelve years ago at a short course of the calligraphy I realized that I had found what I had been searching. The calligraphy as the form of art touched me deeply and the most of all forms. It is still touching me. I do enjoy everything in it. A single letter, a word, a written thought or a colour can be very fascinating.
Later I studied calligraphy at University of Applied Sciences of Satakunta for six years and graduated as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts in 2014. Since that I have given workshops in calligraphy and bookbinding in Finland. During studies I became a fellow of the Calligraphy society of Finland.
The inspiration comes from many sources like traditional poetry, sometimes only a single word, colors in nature, different kinds of materials or handwriting itself. There is always something to discover in calligraphy itself or around you.
My calligraphic work have been shown in many exhibitions all around in Finland during years 2010-2018. In 2018 I was invited to send some pieces of my art work to Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow. I also had an honor to take part in Maria Osipova’s project ”Masha Writes” with other calligraphers from many countries. This book was published at the end of 2018. The original work were shown in the exhibition at Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in December 2018
I have attended many national Calligraphy Weekends in Finland and taken courses with well known calligraphers like Marina Soria, Massimo Polello, Ewan Clayton, Rainer Wiebe, Klaus-Peter Schäffel, Veiko Kespersaks among others.
2019-2021 I have served as the President of the Calligraphy Society of Finland.
DESCRIPTION OF CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Pauliina loves lines, letters, colours and drawings. The letters decorated with filigrees combine these all. There are no limits for the amount of filigrees. The more you draw filigrees, the more fascinating your letters will be. And you are able to do this with only 2-3 colours and simple tools: a brush and a pointed nib.During the workshop we will learn how to create this illuminated letter based on the designs from medieval manuscripts.There will be step by step instructions on how to draw and paint the design.
Calligrapher Pauliina Yliniitty will lead the workshop „Filigree decorated letter-K for Klaipėda.“
Preparation of participants: beginners and/or advanced students will be able to do this workshop.
Number of participants: max 15 people.
Tools and materials will be provided by organizers.
We will communicate in English at this workshop. An interpreter will help communicate.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
27th of September
5.00 – 6.00 pm Introductions and a short presentation of Filigrees. Discussion of the materials and what we are going to do during the workshop.
6.00 – 6.40 pm Break.
6.40 – 8.00 pm Painting exercises with gouache, drawing filigrees to get in touch with the feeling of drawing them.
28th of September
5.00 – 6.40 pm K-practise following the step by step instructions.
6.40 – 7.00 pm Break.
7.00 – 8.00 pm Choosing the K-shape you like and start drawing it on grid paper and start designing your own Filigree decorated K.
29th of September
5.00 – 6.40 pm Discussion of the sketches.
6.40 – 7.00 pm Break.
7.00 – 8.00 pm Transferring your design to good quality paper. The letter and all main decorations. Finishing your final piece.
30th of September
5.00 – 6.40 pm Finishing your final piece.
6.40 – 7.00 pm Break.
7.00 – 8.00 pm Discussion of the results.
Workshops will be held at the Klaipėda Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts . Address Daržų st. 18, Klaipeda
The digitized works of the participants of the creative workshops will be exhibited on the website of the School of Calligraphy and Lettering Art: http://www.ink4.art/ and on the school social accounts.
Dasha Levchuk is a graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. Currently based in Madrid.
10+ years in design. Specializes in typography, lettering and identity.
Former Graphic Designer at Banda Creative Agency and Balbek Bureau architecture and interior design studio.
Description of the creative workshop (distance)
In this distance workshop you will explore the creative process behind creating a logo. We will walk you through the most important terms and principles of typography and lettering, as well as the digital tools needed to make a good logo and present it to a client. Step by step we will go from analog sketches to vectorization of your work to basic animation of a final logo.
Preparation of participants – advanced.
Number of participants max 15 people.
We will communicate in English at this distance workshop.
Participants of the workshop will receive Certificates.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
25th of April
10 – 11.30 am What Is a Good Logo?
11:30 – 12 pm Break
12 – 13 pm Basic terms and concepts in typography.
13 – 14 pm Typography vs lettering
14– 15 pm Break
15 – 16 pm Visual storytelling
16 – 17 pm Tools and materials
17 – 18 pm Choose your project
26th of April
10 – 11:30 am Typography: history and classification
11:30 – 12 pm Break
12 – 13 pm Modular font
13 – 14 pm Adobe illustrator intro
14 – 15 pm Break
15 – 16:30 pm Practice
16:30 – 18 pm Feedback session
27th of April
10 – 11:30 am Introduction to lettering
11:30 – 12 pm Break
12 – 13 pm Practice
13– 14 pm Feedback session
14 – 15 pm Break
15 – 16 pm Analog to digital
16 – 17pm Practice
17– 18 pm Feedback session
28th of April
10– 11:30 am Animation
11:30 – 12 pm Break
12 – 14 pm Adobe After Effects intro
14 – 15 pm Break
15– 16 pm Practice
16 – 17pm Presentation: examples and sources
17– 18 pm Feedback session
29th of April
10– 14 pm Project presentation and feedback session
Participants need to have a Phone with camera, Notebook with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects installed. Students that don’t have Adobe subscription may use a 7 days free trial period.
Although the workshop is not covering calligraphy, students who are experienced in calligraphy will be able to create their logo based on it. For that they will need paper suitable for ink, ink and other necessary instruments.
Workshops will be held at the Klaipėda Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts in the auditorium named after Prof. A. Kliševičius. Address Daržų st. 18, Klaipeda
The works of the participants of the creative workshops will be exhibited on the website of the School of Calligraphy and Lettering Art: http://www.ink4.art/ and on the school social accounts.
2021
Zita Inčirauskienė graduated Telšiai Technical School of Applied Arts in 1972, Vilnius Institute of Art (now Vilnius Academy of Arts) in 1983. Z.Inčirauskienė is currently a professor at the Telšiai Faculty Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 2000 Z.Inčirauskiene has organized 17 author’s exhibitions and won awards at the International Textile Biennial „Soft world“, Republican Exhibition of Christian Art „Source of life“, Lithuanian Textile Biennial „Me mine for me“, was honored with the Samogitian Silver Badge for the preservation of Samogitian cultural identity and creative self-expression. Prof. Z. Inčirauskiene was awarded an Individual scholarship by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuaniain in 2009. The artist has participated in more than fifty joint exhibitions and projects over the past five years in Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Venice (Lithuanian pavilion), South Korea, Dominica, Italy, Poland, France.
Professor Zita Inčirauskienė gives lectures, conducts calligraphy seminars for art teachers, schoolchildren and high school students. She initiates and curates exhibitions and projects of both professional artists and students.
The professor is a member of organizations: Lithuanian Artists’ Association, Lithuanian Art Creators Association, Lithuanian copyright protection organization.
The maine scope of interests is calligraphy and textile.
VYTAUTAS MAČERNIS SHIRT
Calligrapher professor Vilnius Academy of Arts Zita Inčirauskienė will lead a creative workshop
SEARCHING FOR THE LIMITS OF CALLIGRAPHY. DEDICATION TO VYTAUTAS MAČERNIS
Influenced by postmodern art, classical calligraphy emerges from the usual two-dimensional plane, losing the usual trace of paper and ink. It becomes a form, an object, an installation. Calligraphy is integrated into other fields of art: cinema, theatre, applied visual or conceptual art, creating non-standard volumetric or spatial forms. This visuality becomes more important than the thought expressed in the text in the artworks. Calligraphic exercises on fabric provide an opportunity to learn about the technological subtleties of this creative field. The goal and motto of this creative workshop is “Everyone can write interestingly!” Assessing the uniqueness of the personal manuscript, to get acquainted with the integration of calligraphy into textile art, to perform calligraphic exercises on fabric and to create an installation, a composition on the theme “Vytautas Mačernis shirts.”
Detailed Schedule;
14th of June Presentation of the workshop program, discussion of the workshop schedule
4.30 pm Lecture “In Search of the Limits of Calligraphy.” Unconventional ways of using calligraphy in various media (movies, theatre, sculpture, installation, textiles, etc.).
5.30 pm 30 minute break.
6-8 pm Prof.Z.Inčirauskienė will present her creative work “Calligraphy in textiles and also a preview of the film “Bologna Towers 2000” (calligraphy, audio and video installation). The authors of the film are Brody Neuenschwander and Peter Greenaway. Duration 20 min.
15 of June
4 pm Announcement of the topic, discussion of goals and expected outcomes.
4.30 pm Calligraphic exercises on fabric.
Part I. Personal manuscript, non-traditional tools, compositional provocations.
5.30 pm. 30 minute break.
6 pm Calligraphic exercises on fabric. Part II
7.30 – 8 pm The discussion of the work of those participating in the workshop.
16 of June
4 pm Calligraphic exercises on fabric. Personal manuscript, non-traditional tools, compositional provocations.
5.30 pm. 30 minute break.
6.00 pm Concretization of the writing experience into the object “shirt”. Experience, emotion. Sketching.
7.30 – 8.00 pm The discussion of the work of those participating in the workshop.
17of June
4pm Calligraphic exercises on fabric continue. Concretization of texts, search for “own” rhythm. Experience, emotion.
5.30 pm. 30 minute break.
6 pm The implementation of calligraphic compositions in a specific object.
7.30 – 8.00 pm The discussion of the work of those participating in the workshop.
18 of June
4 pm Improvement and correction of created calligraphic objects. The discussion of the exposition of the workshop participants
6 pm Exhibition of participants’ works, discussion
PLEASE NOTE. Requirements for participants (KAIP IŠRYŠKINTI šitą info, KAD visi matytų?:)
The theme of the creative workshops is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vytautas Mačernis. Each participant should be interested in the poetry of this poet, and acquainted with the biography of Vytautas Mačernis.
Participants have to have prepared some of their favourite short texts from the poet’s diaries and poems.
We recommend to read: A. Ruseckaitė „ Dūžtančios formos“, (biografinis romanas apie V. Mačernį), V.Mačernis „Praeinančiam pasaulyje praeisiu“, „Po ūkanotu nežinios dangum“, „Sielos paveikslas“ ir kitas.
The digitized works of the participants of the creative workshops will be exhibited on the website of the School of Calligraphy and Lettering Art: http://www.ink4.art/sample-page/
and on the school social accounts.
2020
My name is Pauliina Yliniitty. I live with my family in a small town called Oulainen in Finland. I have three children; two sons and a daughter.
Twelve years ago at a short course of the calligraphy I realized that I had found what I had been searching. The calligraphy as the form of art touched me deeply and the most of all forms. It is still touching me. I do enjoy everything in it. A single letter, a word, a written thought or a colour can be very fascinating.
Later I studied calligraphy at University of Applied Sciences of Satakunta for six years and graduated as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts in 2014. Since that I have given workshops in calligraphy and bookbinding in Finland. During studies I became a fellow of the Calligraphy society of Finland.
The inspiration comes from many sources like traditional poetry, sometimes only a single word, colors in nature, different kinds of materials or handwriting itself. There is always something to discover in calligraphy itself or around you.
My calligraphic work have been shown in many exhibitions all around in Finland during years 2010-2018. In 2018 I was invited to send some pieces of my art work to Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow. I also had an honor to take part in Maria Osipova’s project ”Masha Writes” with other calligraphers from many countries. This book was published at the end of 2018. The original work were shown in the exhibition at Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in December 2018
I have attended many national Calligraphy Weekends in Finland and taken courses with well known calligraphers like Marina Soria, Massimo Polello, Ewan Clayton, Rainer Wiebe, Klaus-Peter Schäffel, Veiko Kespersaks among others.
Since April 2019 I have served as the President of the Calligraphy Society of Finland.
Calligrapher, Head of the Finnish Calligraphers Association Paulina Yliniitty will lead a creative workshop Calligraphy with Cyrillic Nuance. You will learn about the rules of writing „Vyaz“ style lettering and develop your own cyrillic style alphabets according the rules for everyone. Then everyone will make a piece of calligraphic art work with his/her new alphabets.
A three-day creative workshop Calligraphy with Cyrillic Nuance with calligrapher Paulina Yliniitty will take place at the Arts and Crafts Courtyard, address Bažnyčių g. 4, Klaipėda on 23th-25th of September.
Anybody interested in beautiful letters can attend this workshop.
The workshop is free of charge.
Tools and materials will be provided by organizers.
Detailed schedule
23th of September
Workshop duration from 6pm till 9pm (including a short brake)
24th of September
Workshop duration from 10am till 5pm (including a short brake)
25th of September
Workshop duration from 10am till 3pm (including a short brake)
As Elena herself says: “the sign is interesting to me as a hint, as a reference to the further perception of every object that exists in reality. When creating signs, it is interesting for me to experiment with different tools and techniques, and as a result, I can see various transformations of letters and signs. Embossed calligraphy provides a unique opportunity to extract characters in three dimensions. Interaction with light and the surface of the paper is important when creating embossed calligraphy. ”
2015 Elene Pellicoro founded atelier MiroModo in Turin. Constantly conducts calligraphy workshops, paper design, 3D painting workshops in Italy and other countries.
Virginijus Bakas is a graphic designer with 32 years of practical work experience. He has worked in advertising agencies, commercial television, Vilnius Academy of Arts. Currently he is a freelance designer, lecturer.
His artworks were created for His Excellency President Valdas Adamkus, prima ballerina Maja Pliseckaja and composer Rodionas Ščedrinas, maestro Saulius Sondeckis, Eimuntas Nekrošius and the theater groupMeno Fortas, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, maestro Gintaras Rinkevičius and Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, ballet-dancer Egle Špokaitė, opera singer Sigute Stonyte and many others.
Transformation of a drawn symbol into a functional font.
workshop
During the workshop will be shown how to convert your created characters into a functional font, using Adobe software (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator) in a minutes.
Listeners, who in one form or another have their own symbols created in the workshops of other lecturers, will have the opportunity not only to observe how the symbol becomes an element of a functional font, but also to participate in the process of creating a new font.
Detailed schedule
26th of September
Workshop duration from 10am till 1pm
2019
Loredana Zega – is a professional calligrapher from Slovenia. She was a visiting lecturer at prof. A.Kliševičius school of Calligraphy and Lettering art in 2019.
Loredana Zega has been participating in artistic and commercial projects for 16 years. She runs international caligraphy workshops, participates at exhibitions regularly. As Loredana says: “to be happy for me it means to have a very good quality brush, high quality paper and gouache.”She is also a regular leader of international art workshops.
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