Portland Society for Calligraphy

Ink it your way ✍️✨

May’s prompt is here: Design a Calligraphic Tattoo—whether it’s bold, delicate, meaningful, or purely expressive. Think lettering as art that lives with you.

Share your design and join the community:
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• Post by May 28 for a chance to be featured

We can’t wait to see what you create 🖤

Throwback Thursday: Take a look at these vintage art supply ads found in the Oregonian in the late 1960s and 1980s.

PSC April 2026 Prompt Roundup. Last month's prompt was writing the alphabet with pencil. We had 3 amazing calligraphers showing their letters.

Artist (in order of carousel):




Thank you for your beautiful creations!

April 2026 with PSC

Whether you’re joining a meeting, celebrating World Art Day, or submitting your ligatures, there’s plenty to keep your creative hands busy this month.

Member Monday: Today we’re honoring Colleen Cavin, who taught calligraphy classes for over 30 years in the Portland area and inspired many with her beautiful artwork.

Our board secretary, Jonathan Dubay (.jonathan) , has shared two pieces of his artwork for our homepage. The first image is a piece he created for the Reed College scriptorium calendar. The second is a sample of his work from one of the Handwriting the Constitution ( )events in Portland, Oregon. Thanks for sharing, Jonathan!

If you would like to be featured on our website's homepage and socials, as a member send your work to [email protected]!

No joke here… we’re seriously talking ligatures 😌✍️
April’s prompt is all about connecting letters in beautiful, unexpected ways. The more ligatures, the better.

Write a quote using as many ligatures as possible and show us what you’ve got! What are ligatures? An artistic connection/merging of letters! We have examples to give you some inspiration.

✨ Post by April 28 to be featured
✨ Tag

This is the kind of April Fool’s prank we fully support—more lettering, more joy.

Special thanks to Bailey Eckert & Rebecca Nguyen for their ligature examples.

Today we highlight Christine Colasurdo, who shared her love of calligraphy, teaching, writing, and the natural world. She had a special love for the Mt. St. Helens wilderness, and wrote a book about it, "Return to Spirit Lake."

Syuhada Jaafar, one of our international members from Malaysia, has shared several pieces of her work on our homepage. Her work includes beautiful calligraphy and engraving. See more of her work at . Thank you for sharing, Syuhada!

If you would like to be featured on our website's homepage and socials, as a member send your work to [email protected]!

For April's Member Meeting Program: Sue Greenseth will give us a sneak peek at her unique workshop, “Design with Neuland,” offered by PSC in May. Sue will share lots of fun images and a few tips and tricks when she creates her art.

Neuland is one of Sue’s favorite hands. She developed this workshop to help her students understand Neuland’s versatility—it’s easily embellished and embossed, can feel light or jarring, and is a perfect hand to use with lighter scripts.

Please join us on Zoom for Sue's presentation on April 13th, 2026 at 7pm.
Zoom link can be found in the PSC website.