PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend calligrapher Rebecca Wild will relate her journey from full-time scribe to artist and teacher in “Letter Stories” from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
She will speak at the Northwind Book Arts Group at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., weaving stories illustrating the importance of penmanship and the lost art of letter writing.
She also will relate how a relationship with letters and calligraphy has changed the lives of some of her students.
Wild is a calligrapher whose work pairs a love of letter forms with the luminous characteristics of drawing materials and paint. She uses text as a tool for both conveying messages and creating abstraction.
Originally from West Virginia, she has a bachelor of arts degree in studio art.
She was a calligraphy and art instructor in Portland, Ore., for 25 years and now teaches workshops for guilds and art centers up and down the West Coast.
More of her work can be seen at http://www.rwild art.com/.
The Northwind Book Arts Group is dedicated to exploring and cultivating contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as art, while preserving the traditional practices involved in the creations of books and while providing a forum for exchange among fine printers, typographers, binders and artists in and around Port Townsend and the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas.
The group is open to all with an interest in artist books, fine printing and paper.
For more information, email Ellie Mathews at bookarts@northwindarts.org or go to http://northwindarts.org/programs/northwind-book-arts-group/.
