Pat Blair has been a professional calligrapher for over 21 years, being owner of the lettering studio, "Calligraphy & Design," in New York, and currently in Virginia. Her work has been published in Letter Arts Review, The Calligrapher's Engagement Calendar, Scripsit, and Tabellae Insatae. She teaches at the Loudoun Academy of the Arts, and has been on the faculty of the 21st International Calligraphy Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Having just completed serving two years as the President of the Washington Calligrapher's Guild in Washington, DC, she is the current chairperson of The Graceful Envelope Contest.

Pat's love of pointed pen lettering led her to her study of Copperplate and Spencerian letterforms. She uses these styles in her invitation designs, which is her specialty. She is currently serving as the calligrapher for Vice President Cheney, and her list of clients include Georgetown University, the Dept. of State, and The White House.

Karen Charatan creates pen, brush, and drawn lettering as well as calligraphic paintings. The range of work in her 25-year career includes advertising lettering. greeting cards, point-of-purchase displays, murals, and sign design. Karen has taught brush lettering, business card design, and sign writing for the annual international lettering arts conferences and for many of the calligraphy guilds in the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. Exhibiting her work with Asian calligraphers, her recent focus is abstract calligraphic painting. A few of her abstract calligraphic works are included in the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL.  Karen is the designer and author of the how-to marker book, ABC ZIG Calligraphy.

Lee Ann Clark has been a calligrapher and designer for over 20 years. She has taught at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA and continues to teach classes and workshops since relocating to the East Coast. A Letter Arts Review co-juror for the past two years, her clients have included, Nordstrom, The Vice President’s Residence, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Vulcan, Inc. and Fila-USA.

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Calligrapher and book designer, Rosie Kelly combines a love of word, line, color and texture in her work. She makes word art for the sheer joy of doing it and because her muse insists upon it

Rosie has studied with a wide range of internationally known lettering artists and  teaches workshops across the country.

Carole Maurer, a PCS Board member and experienced calligrapher was introduced to altered books and became hooked, much to her surprise.

Maureen Peters is a graphic artist, who specializes in calligraphy and graphic design. At the School of  Sacred Arts, she learned the process of the medieval illuminators' palette, color derived from animals, vegetables and minerals using medieval techniques.  A graduate of Reggie Ezell's Year-Long Class, Maureen teaches calligraphy and illumination throughout New Jersey. Her work has been published and is in several private collections. She is the owner of Letterworks Art Studio in Woodbury, NJ.

Anna Pinto divides her time between freelance work and teaching, in the Art Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus and for various calligraphy guilds. Her work can be seen in publications ranging from: “Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Calendar 2006” to“Artist and Alphabet: Lettering Art in the 20th Century” to“The Perfect Wedding Reception” by Maria McBride, to “Drawing Dimensions” by Cynthia Maris Dantzic, as well as in the collections of the San Francisco Public Library, the Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, and the Beinecke Library at Yale.

Marcy Robinson is a freelance lettering artist residing in New Jersey. She has studied extensively with Sheila and Julian Waters and has taken workshops with many other well known calligraphic artists.  Marcy was on the faculty of the 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1998 national calligraphic conventions.  Her work may be seen in the Calligrapher’s Engagement Calendars.

MICHAEL SULL received studio training in Engrossing and Ornamental Penmanhip from David Fairbanks and Paul O'Hara. He founded the Tidewater Calligraphy Guild in 1979, was employed by Hallmark Cards as a staff lettering artist and in 1986 founded The Lettering Design Group, Mission, Kansas.

A Master Penman, he is current Chairman of IAMPETH and founder of Spencerian Saga (a week-long annual program devoted to American ornamental penmanship and Engrossing). He has taught at international conferences and has written and produced numerous instructional books and videos on the subjects of Spencerian and off hand flourishing.

His signature work, Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship (1990) is considered to be the definitive text on the subject. Most recently, he developed The American Cursive Handwriting Program for school children and adults.

Jacqueline Sullivan, a degreed graphic designer, has been a mixed media artist since first introduced to collage in a high school art class. Jacqueline's work has been shown in galleries and the top juried art fairs nationwide. Her calligraphic work has been published in many calligraphy journals; her collage work has been published in Somerset Magazine and Cloth, Paper and Scissors Magazine . She has been on the faculty of five international calligraphy conferences.
In addition to teaching for calligraphy organizations and conferences, Jacqueline also teaches collage and metals classes at many of the top art retreats around the country.

Peter Thornton has been a full-time professional calligrapher since 1969. He has travelled to the US several times each year since 1978, and published his book, Alphabetically Speaking last year to celebrate his 25 years of teaching and lecturing there. He has also taught in Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa and Europe. He is a Fellow of CLAS and now runs and teaches a summer MasterClass in Ripon, Yorkshire. He is well known for his Musicalligraphy, a combination of music and letters, seen and heard simultaneously.