Heather’s Resume
Training
2024
Gold Gilding and Glue Chipping on Glass with Noel Weber
2023
Write On! The Lettering of Wes Wilson with Amity Parks
Brush Discipline: A Lighter Touch and Longer Texts with Carl Rohrs
2022
Basics of Foundational Hand with Karla Hamilton
Textura and Fraktur with Nina Tran
2021
Structures & Gifts/Bookbinding 3 with Anne Elser
Intermediate Bookbinding with Anne Elser
Legacies III International Calligraphy Conference (Virtual)
-Drawing the Fibonacci Sequence with Gemma Black
-Victorian Frames and Labels with Heather Victoria Held
-Broad-Edged Pen: Roman Capitals with Elmo Van Slingerland
Copperplate Garden with Barbara Close
Triangle Brush Tulips and Magnolias with Pat Blair
Digitizing Calligraphy with Britt Rohr
Beginning Bookbinding with Anne Elser
Business of Calligraphy with Kestrel Montes
Neuland with Carol DuBosch
2020
Graphite Effects with Amity Parks
A Sharp Pencil and a Keen Eye with Amity Parks
Italic and Variations with John Stevens
Hand Embossing with Carol DuBosch
Monoline Italic with Carol DuBosch
The Juicy Line: Bone Script with Carol DuBosch
Chunky Caps with Amity Parks
Bister Inks with Amity Parks
2019
Dancing Versals with Diane von Arx
Rendez-Vous International Calligraphy Conference (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada)
-Filigrees & Versals from the Gothic Period with Benoit Furet
Pointed Pen Personalities with Pat Blair
2018
Pre Copperplate Italic with Gemma Black
The Biting of the Bows: The Ampersand and Ligatures with Gemma Black
Uncial with Dave Kuwahara
Inscription Carving on Slate with Paul Herrera
Seattletters International Calligraphy Conference (Bellingham, Washington)
-Brush Discipline: A Lighter Touch and Longer Texts with Carl Rohrs
Copperplate with Dave Kuwahara
Foundational: Self study
2017
Letterworks International Calligraphy Conference (Ogden, Utah)
-Master Class in Copperplate: Dressed up and Dancing the Night Away with Pat Blair
Copperplate with Dave Kuwahara
Spencerian with Harvest Crittenden
Rustics with Carol DuBosch
Italic with Dave Kuwahara
Romans with Sharon Zeugin
2016
Uncial with Dave Kuwahara
Gothic Italic with Dave Kuwahara
2015
Italic with Dave Kuwahara
Copperplate with Dave Kuwahara
2014
Self study
2013
Skillshare: The Art of Modern Calligraphy with Molly Jacques
Affiliations
Idaho Inkspots
Member 2016-Present
Social Media Manager 2020-Present
Vice President 2018-2020, 2022-Present
Workshop Coordinator 2023-Present
Newsletter Editor 2018-2023
Friends of Calligraphy
Member 2018-2024
Group Exhibitions
Annual exhibitions of calligraphy by the Idaho Inkspots Calligraphy Guild, 2017-Present
Mother’s Day, Cathedral of the Rockies, 2017
Stations of the Cross, Cathedral of the Rockies, 2016-2019
The Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 2015-2019
(Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Hiding from the Paparazzi, Yama Kippi Yay Bo, Nicole Richie’s Memorial Day BBQ, David’s Dead: Tiffany Pollard, Anatomy of an Icon: 15 Seasons of Grey’s)
Teaching Experience
Brush Lettering Calligraphy, Scenic-The Storied Home, September 2024
Adolf Bernd Painted Letters, Idaho Art Education Association, July 2024
Adolf Bernd Painted Letters at Guild Meeting, April 2024
Weathergrams at Guild Meeting, March 2021
Introduction to Copperplate Class (8 weeks), September-October 2019
Filigrees at Guild Meeting, September 2019
Introduction to Copperplate Class (8 weeks), April-May 2019
Pointed Pen Flourishing at Copperplate Class, October 2018
Pointed Pen Flourishing at Guild Meeting, March 2018
Private Introduction to Copperplate, November 2018
Modern Calligraphy at Bricolage, August 2014
Volunteer Activities
Demonstration Table, Rediscovered Books 2023
Demonstration Table, Rediscovered Books 2022
Demonstration Table, Treefort Music Festival, 2017-2019
Materials and Tools table for Saint John’s Bible Exhibit, Saint Alphonsus Hospital, March 2018