Christine Colasurdo's Piece is Kalligraphia 13 --Mantra

If Kalligraphia 13 has a Mission Statement, Christine Colasurdo "Calligraphy Is At The Center of Everything" is IT!



Christine Colasurdo "Calligraphy is At The Center of Everything"

Christine is right. The history of lettering and calligraphy is also the history of civilization. Since there were no printing presses or computers on those early centuries as human beings evolved to become civilized, imagine if there were no scribes or calligraphers to write down  the contents in manuscripts. The Bible is the most published book in the entire world. Imagine if there were no scribes to write those pages to hand them over to our generation. Christine reminds the Bay Area and the world "Calligraphy is At the Center of Everything". I say Amen to that!

A teacher earns a student's respect when he/she is a skillful teacher but when he/she is kind,warm,wonderful,honorable, the teacher not only earns admiration from the student but also a student's affection. Some teachers earn our admiration but not our affection. Christine Colasurdo earns both my admiration and affection.  The Fort Mason students were brokenhearted when she left  San Francisco to return to Oregon.

At Fort Mason, she taught students Italic, Brush Italic & Uncials. What I remember most from her class was creating Weathergrams originally propelled by Reed's  professor Lloyd Reynolds made from a grocery brown bag. I was inspired to write short poems(10 words or less) on the brown paper and hang weathergrams outside my  garden and tree. Long before it was politically correct to be 'green', Lloyd was already advocating how to be a green activist.

Aside from being an author of the  remarkable book "Return to  Spirit Lake", she's a passionate  endorser for calligraphy.  Wow! According to reviews , she's there up with the best together with my favorite nature writers Edward Abbey, Henry Thoreau, & John Muir. She was at NPR remembering about  Spirit Lake.

You can download her KQED Perspective on Calligraphy  under "Beautiful Writing". She's also a passionate lover of nature not only by writing articles but  also  she volunteers for activities involving nature in her community.