Calligraphy as a Career?

Have you ever considered calligraphy as a career?  Many people are professional freelance calligraphists, but to have a calligraphy career outside of freelancing?  This article features Ann Miller and her excellent career as a professional calligraphist, including her tenure as the president of a calligraphers society and as a professor of calligraphy.  Maybe this will spark new ideas for taking your hobby to new heights.

Spotlight: Ann Miller, ’64, MA ’65

Cyberspace Calligraphy

Glenn Matsumura

AFTER 1978, when a California funding crisis short-circuited a tenure-track job teaching art, Ann Balaam Miller was “irked for quite a while.” She had studied painting and lithography at Stanford with Nathan Oliveira and Richard Diebenkorn and enjoyed working with students in turn. It was frustrating to have “all these teaching ideas that never reached fruition.”

STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2004 > Class Notes

William

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