Meetings
Members and guests of Escribiente meet the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm. (No meetings are held in January, July and December, unless noted.)
We feature an informative program for all levels of calligraphy with a mix of presentations and hands on projects. Everyone with an interest in creating beautiful letters is welcome to join!
Calendar
Escribiente now hosts most of our programs online via Zoom. We have two workshops in the Spring and Fall (in person where possible). We also aim to host monthly meetups in person on the third Saturday from 1–3pm (check your email for location). We will miss having all our programs in person, but our members from out-of-town can now enjoy our programming and it is easier to have guest artists too! Members receive email reminders one week beforehand.
Program: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 @ 6:30pm * Online via Zoom
Members are encouraged to log in @ 6:15pm for social time
The Buchstaben Artist Book
Presentation by Louise Grunewald
Buchstaben means “letters” in German. In my presentation I will outline how I was inspired to create the book after my time at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach, Germany. I wanted to pay tribute one of my lettering heroes, Rudolf Koch, so set out to develop my own version of his alphabet NEULAND. I converted the letters to printing plates in the Solarplate process, and printed the book on my etching press. It was a labor of love, and also the most involved effort of any book I have made. I will show the whole process in a slide show from start to finish.
About Louise: I can’t remember when I didn’t want to be an artist, and I also wanted to earn my living in the arts. That career has spanned many decades. After majoring in Fine Art in college, I continued my education with commercial art courses, and studied calligraphy wherever workshops could be found. I have been a high school art teacher, a traveling instructor on the calligraphy and art circuit (including at Ghost Ranch for many years, and at numerous conferences), a graphic designer, and commercial greeting card designer. It continues to be rewarding at this point in my life with studio work as a fine artist: painter, printmaker, calligrapher, and book artist. My “teaching gene” is satisfied by giving presentations such as this one, and writing articles for magazines such as Alphabet, Bound and Lettered, and others.
My work can be found in numerous private collections, and public ones such as The Klingspor Museum of Book and Letter Arts in Offenbach Germany (where Buchstaben now resides), the Harrison Collection of the San Francisco Public Library, the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, Bowdoin College Special Collections in Maine, the Natural History Institute in Prescott AZ, and the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson.
Members receive email notices for all programs and workshops.
Live Zoom meetings are open to members only. The Zoom replay will be available for a limited time to members after the meeting. An edited replay may be posted to our YouTube channel after editing, provided permission is granted from the presenter.
Upcoming events – please check your email for more details!
Third Saturday of most months: In-person meetup at Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Please check your email for details.