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Event Description
Calligraphy Workshop
If you are an instructor or teacher, of course you’d love to see your class
with full of enthusiastic students with twinkling eyes. But when you weren’
t expected, you’d become a little panicked. So, that was my first reaction
when I found out there will be 13 members attending at the Workshop No. 3 at
Galleria community room today. So, I secretly called my great backup,
Asai-san the professional. Thanks to her who gave me ok without hesitation!
Today, we had our newest members, Margarita-san and her two children,
Lily-chan and Emilio-kun. While I was focusing on them and the other member
and their friend, Mayumi-san, Asai-san was helping the rest of the
participants, and I liked very much the way it worked. Because Lily-chan was
studying Japanese, I thought she looked more relaxed when writing characters
than average non-Japanese who had never tried calligraphy before.
Margarita-san is a teacher and I noticed that the way she analyzes the
calligraphy seems different from others, especially artist such as painters,
who commonly show interest in calligraphy. I was more surprised to see
Emilio-kun whom I was told wasn’t so much curious about calligraphy ended
up with showing some talent in creating characteristic forms. I hope they
would come back to the next workshop to discover something more challenging.
The next calligraphy workshop will be the “Kakizome” at Arts Mid-Hudson in
Poughkeepsie on 1/7/17. I look forward to seeing you all, as volunteers or
participants, at the First Writing of the Year 2017!
Midori Shinye
Calligraphy Instructor
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