[Scriptoris] Scribal exhibit at SMU

[Hillary Greenslade]

Sylvana Barrett - she's the scribal demonstrator, educator and art 
historian used by the Getty Museum in California. Often when the Getty does a 
manuscript exhibit (which is often), she teaches an accompanying workshop during 
the exhibit, I'm told it's hard to get into her classes.   .  During the Knowne 
World Heraldic and Scribal (KWHSS) conference in Los Angeles, a few years back, 
she provided a pre-event 2 day workshop - it was fabulous fun and there were 
scribes in the class there from across the SCA kingdoms. 


The KWHSS event also paid expenses to get RanthalfR Asparlundr down from the 
Midrealm to teach.   In fact, the KWHSS conference that year was a bit more 
scribally focused than the many other KWHSS events I've been to, which are more 
Heraldic focused - I actually heard a complaint about it from one of the heralds 
- it was great.   If you get a chance to see Sylvana work, should be good.  


Dr.Roger S. Wieck - some of us in Houston got a chance to hear Dr. Wieck speak 
at a small museum opening of manuscripts in Beaumont, as he was invited to 
participate there.  Much of the info he started out with was very basic 
breakdown of what a typical psalter included (calendar, psalms, etc), as many of 
his audience was novices in the manuscript medium, but then he covered some more 
details about manuscript books that was a delight to hear and we had the 
opportunity to ask a few questions.  His work is often in some of the better 
museum exhibition books as they come out from either the Pierpont Morgan, 
Walters, Met or Getty Museums.  If you own his books, he'll likely autograph 
them for you.  


Don't know Dr. Christine Sciacca, but I believe I've seen some of her books at 
the Getty.  


I'm just miffed that the lectures are during the weekday, else I'd be there - 
you local folks should take advantage!   I'm jealous!!
If SMU got these two folks on their lecture series, definately worth checking it 
out.   


Ya'll enjoy it!   Cheers, Hillary



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I haven't seen anyone mention on this list so I that I'd let people know
that
SMU Meadows Museum in Dallas is having a special exhibit of illuminated
manuscripts.  The show is "The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An
Epic
Journey from Rome to Toledo".  It runs January 23-April 23, 2011.


There is also a series of evening lectures at 6pm in the Bob Smith
Auditorium-Meadows Museum.


February 24 -- Music for the Masses: Illuminating Medieval and Renaissance
Choir
Books by Dr. Christine Sciacca, Assistant Curator, Department of
Manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum.

March 3 -- The Illuminators Table by Sylvana Barrett, Artist and Technical
Historian

April 5 -- Folia Fugitiva: The Pursuit of the Illuminated Manuscript Leaf by
Dr.
Roger S. Wieck, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, The
Pierpont
Morgan Library and Museum.


Mary Schirmer
http://www.marysmaiolicaarts.com
http://marysmaiolica.etsy.com



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