In this video, Carol DuBosch, Sharon Zeugin, and Mike Gold talk with Heather Martinez about the event's inspiration to celebrate their connection and raise funds for Heather and Ray Martinez.
While the live session has passed, the recording is still available.
Where the Sweethearts shared...
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." —Buddha
When you find mentors who are so generous, kind, and wholeheartedly care about your wellbeing, hold on for the ride!
Oftentimes, mentors put us before themselves. Here's a chance to hear their story as the Sweethearts of Lettering share inspirational projects and stories.
What you'll get upon registration:
- Link to an inspiring recorded session featuring the Sweethearts of Lettering:
- Carol DuBosch
- Sharon Zeugin
- Mike Gold
Why is the price $25 or more?
This session is a fundraiser generously brought to you by Carol, Sharon and Mike. Any amount over $25 is greatly appreciated and will go towards paying for Heather and Ray Martinez's medical bills.
Sales from this session will continue to pay off medical bills for Ray and Heather. Once the expenses are met, proceeds will go towards scholarship funds.
Questions? Email Heather.
Context
Three teachers appeared to Heather Martinez in 2016, the start of her lettering year, when she attended her first international calligraphy conference A Show of Hands in Asheville, North Carolina.
Four years later, when the pandemic changed how these three calligraphers could reach their students, Heather taught them to adapt to teaching online.
This Summer, Heather and Ray Martinez faced a string of major medical issues. The calligraphy and visual practitioner communities have been incredibly supportive. This session, driven by the Sweethearts of Lettering, is a mutual exchange of appreciation.
About the Sweethearts
Any day that I can open a bottle of ink, is a good day. It gets even better if I can create art, make a mark-making tool, or teach what I know to someone. Words are my muse and I love being able to use them as a lettering artist. When I hear the words, I ponder them, and savor them for a spell and then interact with them using art materials. It is absolutely the best job ever.
I have been a calligrapher in Portland, Oregon since I was first introduced to nibs and ink in 1959 as a high school art student. In the 58 years since, I have gained a degree in Graphic Design and have studied with every major calligrapher in the US and Europe. I have been teaching college level and private classes in the Northwest along with workshops throughout the United States and most recently in Italy. I have directed three International Calligraphy Conferences in Portland, bringing 500 scribes together for a week of studying and sharing.
I am interested in every aspect of the field of calligraphy, from the formal invitation to writing on walls. I enjoy seeking out ways to stretch the boundaries of my art. As a life-long learner, I am always looking forward to the next new thing.
Sharon Zeugin makes art, teaches, and facilitates workshops in her Austin, Texas Studio, and throughout the USA, Canada and Italy. In addition to being a faculty member of numerous international calligraphy conferences, Sharon teaches locally in her studio and at the Austin Contemporary Art School. Her award winning work appears in the Speedball Textbook, Letter Arts Review, The Calligrapher's Engagement Calendar, Somerset Studio Magazine, and the Lark Book,The Art and Craft of Hand Lettering. In addition to teaching & exhibiting her work, she works as a graphic recorder and sketch note artist.
Influenced by her training as a therapist, Sharon seeks to cultivate a safe classroom environment in which respect for body, mind and spirit are as important as skill building; where students are encouraged to experience art making as an experimental, intuitive and mindful practice. Whether teaching courses in traditional or contemporary calligraphy, mixed media art, art journaling, drawing, sketching or painting, Sharon's goal is to help students get over fear of the blank page. When she is not teaching, sketching or painting, Sharon is busy performing with Austin Samba School, swimming, dancing, walking, tandem biking with her husband.
Mike Gold worked as a commercial lettering designer for over 35 years, mostly in the social expressions business. But his real passion is exploring the corridors of calligraphy that have been less traveled, the path where words and letters are design elements with which to play with line, shape and form, where creating a visual statement is more important than writing a readable text. In both his professional and personal art, Mike breaks traditional rules to create contemporary, non-traditional work.
Mike has an M.A. in Visual Communications and has studied with many outstanding lettering and design masters over the years. Mike has taught around the country and at several international calligraphy conferences. His personal work has been featured in Letter Arts Review many times over the past 25-plus years. He has been a juror for the Letter Arts Review annual and his work is in many private collections, including the Berlin Calligraphy Archive. He is the author of Lines to Live By (available through John Neal, Bookseller), which is Mike's take on being a non-traditional calligrapher in the 21st century.