A Note From the Society’s Board of Directors and the Workshop Committee 

During this stressful time, when all of us are dealing with the challenges and disruptions to our daily lives caused by the pandemic, the Society’s Board of Directors and the Workshop Committee have been exploring how best we can proceed to provide our membership and the greater Portland calligraphy community with meaningful lettering opportunities while we are unable to attend in-person workshops. Regrettably, social distancing and location closures necessitated that we postponed three previously planned workshops through this June; and it may well be that the circumstances will not permit yet additional in-person workshops to take place during the summer months and maybe for some time thereafter. 

However, we want to take a positive step forward, and avail our calligraphic community of remote gathering technologies that are so much of how businesses and other associations are currently operating. With that in mind, we have scheduled the Society’s inaugural online full one-day workshop using Zoom technologies. 

While the Society will closely monitor whether and when we can safely resume conducting in-person workshops, the Society will be actively pursuing plans to offer additional online courses while circumstances necessitate this format. 

While we continue to explore how to adjust our plans to best address the current limitations imposed by Covid-19, you are urged to periodically check the Society’s workshop web page for announcements of both updates to the schedule of our already planned in-person workshop, and to learn about new online classes that we expect to be offering as we head into the summer months, and perhaps beyond.

 Also, we are actively looking at ways to reschedule to future dates either the several workshops which we already found necessary to postpone, or those which we may need to prospectively postpone.