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• Romans Study Group (Member-led)

  • When
    June 05, 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom - online

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  Letter examples (left by artist Wendy MacNaughton); right from old Speedball Textbook)
  

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  FRIDAY,  June 5, 2025,  6:30-8PM PST  

  We continue our series for "Letters with Heft", led by Kristi. This month, we'll choose a style of letters with weight to use for a colorful project. 

  
  

  No charge for these Study Group Sessions. They are often led by members, who do not claim to be masters, sharing what they have learned. There is no requirement to have attended prior sessions. The aim is to share knowledge with newbies and to provide a refresher for those with more experience. Each individual Romans Study Group session requires separate registration. We plan to record this session. Kristi asks that you remind her! Recording will be available for three months. 

  Drawn or Written Letters: We each will choose the letter style we prefer. We're aiming for letters with "heft", rather than the skeleton versions we've been working with so often in these sessions. We'll start by sketching or tracing the letters we want, then tweaking them to get the form we prefer. Next, we'll create thumbnails of the design we're aiming for. We'll then enlarge and refine as needed to create our final version. 

  Flexible Schedule for the evening:

  6:30 - 6:45 Announcements and share work from past sessions. 

  6:45 - 7:45 Kristi  will demo.

  7:45 - 8:00 An opportunity for those who wish to share what they've completed before or during this session--we always love to see what our fellow lettering artists are up to. Also, there is time to ask more questions of our speaker.

  SUPPLY LIST:

  • Practice sheets with your own version of letters (or in a pinch, exemplars you like)
  • Paper for working out your design: layout, drawing, or copier paper will work for tracing or sketching design; then tracing paper will be used to refine; you'll eventually want "good" paper for your final - Arches text wove, hot press watercolor; heavy drawing paper, etc.
  • Pencil, ruler, eraser. It's handy to also have a very soft pencil, such as 7B, or carbon paper.
  • Optional ruler/T-square if you will be using guidelines.
  • Word or phrase you'll want to write

  SfC Membership not required
  

  Handouts and Zoom invitation will be sent a  day or two in advance. 

  You're welcome to sign up even at  the last minute, but you may have to wait and participate via the recording . . .
  All who sign up in advance will automatically receive the recording. We cannot respond to all those who missed registering in advance. 

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• Annual General Meeting (AGM)

  • When
    June 14, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Veterans Memorial Building

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  GUEST SPEAKER

  SHORT BUSINESS MEETING

  LIGHT LUNCH AFTER
  

    

  This is an in-person event only

     

  * REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED *
  

  This event is for members only, no guests

  You must be a member both when you register and when the event is held.

  
  

  Guest Speaker

  Perla Gallegos

  "Making It Big: How Lettering Gets Onto Walls"

  In this talk, Perla will share how lettering moves from design to wall, focusing on scaling methods like pounce patterns, layout, and on-site execution. Through process and experience, she offers a practical look at what changes when letterforms leave the page and are built at scale.

  After many years of appreciating super market signs and even the hand lettered Home Depot signs, Perla Gallegos stumbled upon a "Paper Signs for Grocery Stores" workshop with John Downer She had always assumed they were signs created by talented employees and that it wasn't an actual JOB. She instantly fell in love with the craft and took another workshop with Australian sign painter John King. Shortly afterwards she took the leap and enrolled in the renowned Sign Graphics program at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC ), where she was mentored by legendary instructors Doc Guthrie and Carlos Aguilar.

  After leaving her career in architectural design, Perla launched Superlative Signs to focus fully on sign painting and beautifying business facades throughout Southern California. Specializing in traditional, custom hand-painted storefronts, murals, gold leaf gilding, window lettering for businesses such as restaurants, retail, hospitality, creative spaces and everything in between!

  
  

  Location:

  Veterans Memorial Building

  4117 Overland Ave
  Culver City, CA 90230

  (Corner of Overland Ave & Culver Blvd)

  Free parking along Culver Blvd
  

  
  

                         For questions, contact Chava Gerber at                        programs@societyforcalligraphy.org
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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