Posts Tagged ‘Issue 18’

Rachel Tieken is an artist and calligrapher who works primarily in the events industry, creating stunning paper goods and details for weddings, parties, and corporate events. Rachel highly values the hand-made parts of the design process: the intricate painting, calligraphy, and drawings. Combining this original artwork with intentional details, she gives each event and project…

Donna Selfridge Spangler has lived most of her life surrounded by the beauty of the central Pennsylvania mountains and the heritage of the Pennsylvania German culture. It is easy to understand why the traditional Fraktur designs—flowers, birds, vines, and hearts—and the flowing letters of calligraphy have become so much a part of her life and…

Allison McClanahan has grown up all over the United States (her dad was in the Air Force). She spent the majority of her childhood in Alaska, which instilled the love of nature, travel, and art (she loves painting landscapes, flora, and fauna!). Allison currently Iives in the mountains of Utah, and when she’s not creating…

Sally King McBride is a watercolor artist and Founder of The Letter Nest. Following over a decade working at The Met, Sally traded her curatorial aspirations for entrepreneurship, launching The Letter in 2019 with an aim to educate and delight through the connection of letter and image. Her 15 Alphabet themes range from Woodland to…

Jessie Kate Gibbons is an illustrator, watercolor artist, and the owner of Papergarten, a wedding identity and paper goods studio based in Dallas, Texas. Papergarten began five years ago when a family member asked Jessie if she designed wedding invitations. One graduate women-in-entrepreneurship class later, Jessie had started a company that allowed her to channel her…

Connie Furgason was raised on a farm in Southern Alberta where her love of nature and the vastness of the prairie is expressed in her work. Her mother was an accomplished artist, gardener and creative soul. She grew up with the scent of turpentine as her mother painted long into the night after she and…

Lexi DeConti is a watercolor artist and calligrapher based outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Lexi works primarily in the wedding space, creating whimsical keepsake invitation suites full of custom elements representing couples lives, love stories, and wedding venues. When she’s not painting, Lexi loves to travel, work on needlepoint projects, and hang out with family, friends,…