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Welcome to Escribiente
Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month, and we welcome guests and members of the public who have an interest in learning more abut the fine art of beautiful writing. Please see our Meetings page for full details and directions and download our Newsletters for reviews and photos from our workshops and programs.
Meetings
Monthly programs take place in two sessions from August through November, and from February through June. Check our Meetings page for more details on upcoming meetings.
Program: Wednesday, March 4, 2026 @ 6:30pm * Online via Zoom
Members are encouraged to log in @ 6:15pm for social time
Pointed Pen Flourishing
Presentation by Nina Tran
Flourishes are known to bedazzle and bewilder the viewer and, perhaps even more so, the doer! In this presentation, we will demystify the elusive flourish: what it is and how it works.
Nina Tran is a calligrapher based in sunny Los Angeles, California. She was introduced to formal calligraphy in 2015 and has not put the pen down since! Her passion and enthusiasm to learn calligraphy and penmanship is what propels her to teach.
She currently teaches both in-person and online classes in Copperplate, Spencerian, Pointed Pen Flourishing, Gothic Textura & Fraktur, Gothicized Italic, Gothic Cursive, and Monoline Foundational, Italic, and Stunt Roman. Learn more about Nina on her website.
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 WORKSHOPS:
Weaver Writing
Workshop with Bill Kemp
In-person Workshop in Albuquerque NM:
Saturday, April 11, 2026 from 9am – 4pm
Registration is open NOW! Limited to 18 students.
Fee: $40 for current members (Join here).
Location: Four Hills Mobile Home Piru Activity Center.
Supply list emailed upon registration.
Weaver Writing is a simple, vertical script with just 26 letters. This script is super easy and is great for a one day workshop, allowing students to learn a script and become familiar with the pointed pen.
This is a great opportunity to explore point pen writing at a greatly reduced rate. Our workshop policy explained
BILL KEMP has been practicing his craft for over 40 years. While he also creates calligraphy with a broad-edged nib, pointed pen is his true love. Bill has studied with many notable instructors including Dick Jackson, Gwen Weaver (the creator of Weaver Writing), Master Penman Mike Kesceg, Deny Knight, and John Stevens. Following eighteen years of study with his mentor Master Penman William Lilly, Bill completed his Certificate of Merit in Engrosser’s Script in November 2015.
Bill is an active member of Escribiente and IAMPETH and has taught at many IAMPETH conferences. He currently teaches online and in person to pointed pen students around the world. His calligraphy business is in Albuquerque, New Mexico where his clients keep him busy and where he gets paid to practice. Visit Bill’s website for more info and images billscalligraphy.com.
Upcoming events – please check your email for more details!
View previous programs from 2025–2026 Meetings Archive page.
For more details and upcoming programs, please see our Meetings page...
Latest Newsletter
Back issues are available for download on our Newsletter page.
Spring 2025–2 (December)
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(can also right-click and select Download Linked File)
Edited by Lynda Lawrence.
- Photo Gallery: New Mexico State Fair 2025
- Your Inner Critic: Program by Evelyn Costello
- October 2025 Show & Share Gallery
- October 2025 Round-Robin Gallery
- Workshop Review: Rennie Revisited with Kathy Milici; review by Kasia Stevens
- Into the Heartland 2026 Conference preview
- Scribes 8 exhibition: Animal Language
- Review of recent programs & meetups & more!
- Cover art: Janice Gabel
New Mexico State Fair – September 2025
Escribiente exhibit every year at the State Fair at Expo New Mexico in the Creative Arts Building.
All skill levels welcome. Exhibit entries are open to all New Mexico residents.
See our Exhibits page for more info.
See the Winter 2025-2 Newsletter for a photo gallery of the 2025 exhibit.
Escribiente members exhibit each year at the New Mexico State Fair in the Creative Arts Building during the show.
Weathergrams Installation
Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd. NW, Albuquerque NM
In conjunction with local poets, each year Escribiente members calligraph dozens of Weathergrams that are hung on trees around the Open Space Visitor Center grounds as a temporary art installation.
Images from 2025 installation are included in the June 2025 Newsletter.
Images from 2024 installation are included in the June 2024 Newsletter.
Images from 2023 installation are included in the July 2023 Newsletter.
In conjunction with LIBROS Book Arts group, our members provide original artwork that is included in a handmade poetry chapbook. Illustrations for the 2022 chapbook (some are shown below) was provided by Esther Feske, Elizabeth McKee, Caryl McHarney, and Trish Meyer.
All proceeds from the Poets’ Picnic event benefit Open Space Alliance, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote public awareness and conservation of Open Space lands.
If you haven’t been to the Open Space Visitor Center on Coors Blvd NW, check out their website.
