Welcome to the Chicago Calligraphy Collective.
We are an organization of individuals pursuing this beautiful art by study, collaboration and practice, practice, practice! We simply love to letter. Meet us at a workshop or at an exhibit—in class or at a conference. Come to a study group–we’ll be there. We welcome new members and encourage participation at all skill levels. Join us and learn more about this captivating and engaging form of fine art.
CCC All Members Show 2025
March 4 - March 30, 2025
See Prospectus for details
Artists’ Reception & All Members Meeting and Elections
Saturday March 8, 2025 from 1-4 PM
Palatine Library
700 N. North Court Palatine, IL 60067
Come join us for our All Members’ Show Artist’s Reception and our Spring Member Meeting. Enjoy the calligraphy exhibit and meet your fellow CCC members! This meeting also includes our annual Board Member and Directors elections. Why not consider being on the Board or a CCC committee?
If interested, contact our Vice President, Vicky Gwiasda.
Raffles and all-around fun will be had! Beverages/refreshments will be provided. Feel free to bring a dish to share. Stay tuned to the CCC website for more details.
We are excited to invite CCC members and non-members alike to our next free community event - CCC Presents! - on Zoom on Wednesday, January 29, 7:00pm CST. Our featured speaker is Tim Brookes, founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project.
Click Here for the Tim Brookes Zoom lecture
Passcode: 3n1+HWZK
Link expires Sunday, March 30, 2025
The evening’s topic is “What is Writing? A Series of Questions for Calligraphers”. Tim will discuss how the word “calligraphy”, and even the word “writing”, means different things to different people across the world, and our Western definitions - and therefore our understandings - are among the most limited and least interesting. Tim is on a crusade to try to understand all that writing can be, and the only people who are likely to understand are those who write by hand, with care and intention, with skill and with a sense of both tradition and creativity.
Tim was born in England and educated at Oxford. He moved to the United States in 1980. since then he has been a soccer coach, an editor, a guitarist, a travel writer, an NPR commentator, and since 2009, the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project. he is the author of 20 books and over 1,000 articles, essays, and other odds and ends. He lives on the shore of Lake Champlain.
We’re sure that this will be a fascinating 90 minutes! come join us! All are welcome. Don’t forget to register. Just in case you won’t be able to join us live - the event will be recorded.
Click here to read an excerpt from Tim’s Writing Beyond Writing.
Members Who Teach:
CCC Members who teach calligraphy are invited to submit their contact information and a brief description of services for future inclusion on the website.
