Kalligraphia 12 Demonstration - Thomas Ingmire


This Saturday, August 8 --- 2-4 p.m.
Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room - A, Lower Level, Main Library

Thomas Ingmire demonstrates Experimental Calligraphic Writing.

Thomas Ingmire is an American calligrapher, born in 1942 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1977 he became the first American elected to England's Society of Scribes and Illuminators with a craft membership status. He is one of the illuminators of the St. John's Bible.

Thomas received his B.A. in landscape architecture from Ohio State University and his MLA from UCB. He was a 1980 recipient of a Newberry Fellowship. In 1998, he was awarded a commission for public art installation at Mountain View Public Library.

This demonstration is a part of Kalligraphia 12, co-sponsored by the Friends of Calligraphy and the Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts and Special Collections Center of the San Francisco Public Library. For a schedule of remaining demonstrations and more information about Kalligraphia 12, visit our previous post.

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