Posts Tagged ‘art’
Calligrapher Margaret Shepherd on the making of Song of Songs
November 1, 2022, 7 pm, First Church in Boston Margaret Shepherd gave a presentation about the project that would become her book Song of Songs, the Bible’s Great Love Poems in Calligraphy. She described the range of techniques she used to express specific passages from the text through calligraphy, as well as the challenges she…
Read MorePaper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
January 8, 2022, 2 PM, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Meghan Melvin, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Curator of Design welcomed Ticknorites to the MFA for an in-person look at the book illustrations of Ekua Holmes. A lifelong resident of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, Ekua Holmes (b. 1955) is an artist and community activist whose…
Read MoreAmerican Book Collectors of Children’s Literature
April 24, 2004, Boston Athenaeum Founded in 1986, the American Book Collectors of Children’s Literature (ABCs) Connecticut Chapter is open to authors and illustrators, book dealers, collectors, faculty members, librarians, and others who have an interest in collecting, preserving, reading, and studying children’s books no matter where they live. The ABCs Connecticut Chapter invited Ticknor…
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