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Discovering Oregon Originals—Spring 2008
11th Season of programs from Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission

“Welcome to the Scriptorium: Calligrapher & Teacher Lloyd Reynolds"
Sunday, May 18—3 pm : First Unitarian Church, SW 12th & Salmon Street
This free program is sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission and the Portland Society for Calligraphy

Please join us Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 3 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, S.W. 12th and Salmon

An exhibition of Lloyd Reynolds’s calligraphy and books will be on view and rare footage from the 1976 television series produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting will be shown. Those in attendance are encouraged to bring their calligraphy pen to sign in, and make a weathergram in the style of Lloyd Reynolds.

Internationally known calligrapher Lloyd J. Reynolds [1902-1978] taught at Reed College for forty years 1929 to 1969 and at the Portland Art Museum School beginning in 1950. He founded the Western Branch of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1968. That organization today is known as the Portland Society for Calligraphy.

Controversial in his era, as noted in Michael Munk's "The Portland Red Guide," Reynolds was one of three Reed professors targetted in the 1954 HUAC hearings, refusing to answer their political questions.

Reynolds continued teaching in the community following his retirement. In 1972 Oregon Governor Tom McCall honored Reynolds as the world’s first calligrapher laureate and in 1977, he received the Aubrey R. Watzek Award from Lewis & Clark College. Reynold’s lasting legacy was his ability to teach and engage his students in his creative writing, art history or studio art classes.

Few creative figures have had the local and global impact of legendary professor Lloyd Reynolds, whose holistic humanist view influenced and inspired generations of calligraphers, teachers, type designers, artists, poets and writers including: poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, William Stafford and Carolyn Kizer , Apple computer’s Steve Jobs, screenwriter Ben Barzman, type designer Chuck Bigelow and thousands of others, both directly and via the small cadre of talented disciples who carried on his vision.

Presenters are: Bill Gunderson, Bettye Lou Bennett, Inga Dubay, Jaki Svaren, Barbara Getty, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Kim Stafford and invited special guests

For further information: www.portlandcalligraphy.org, www.ochcom.org, or contact 503.285.8279, email lleonard@hevanet.com

www.ochcom.org
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PO Box 3588, Portland, OR 97208

Thanks for your interest in the Discovering Oregon Originals series. We look forward to your attendance.
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