TEACHING AND ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
  • 1999, The Cittadella Calligraphy Program, Workshop-Conference in Italy (organizer and teacher)
  • 1999, Illumination Design Consultation to Arion Press, San Francisco, CA (Limited Edition of The Holy Bible)
  • 1992, 1993, Westward Ho, a Workshop-Conference , San Francisco Bay Area (organizer and teacher)
  • 1977-present: Invited teacher of workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and several countries in Europe as well as in Japan and Hong Kong.
  • 1991, The Pforzheimer Lectures on Printing and the Book Arts, The New York Public Library: A lecture titled The Alchemy of the Word, The Making of a Modern Maunscript
  • 1987, Design and Illumination of Initial Letters for Special Bicentennial Issue of the United States Constitution, Limited Edition, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
  • 1978-1981 Co-founder of The Calligraphy Center, San Francisco (a school and gallery dedicated to expanding the awareness of Calligraphy)
SUMMARY

The uniqueness of Thomas Ingmire's art work lies in its relationship to the traditions of calligraphy. In the world today, Ingmire is one of the forerunners of the modern western calligraphy movement.
He has taught calligraphy since l978 and has conducted workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and several countries in Europe as well as in Japan and Hong Kong.
Testimony to his talent as a craftsman was his election in 1977 to the English Society of Scribes and Illuminators. Ingmire was the first American and first person outside of the United Kingdom to receive this honor.


Ingmire's work has focused on the exploration of calligraphy as a fine arts medium. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, and can be found in the San Francisco Public Library's Special Collections, The Newberry Library in Chicago, The Victoria Albert Museum in London, The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, as well as many other public and private collections throughout the world.
Published work occurs in a number of issues and annuals of Letter Arts Review, and in a number of books including CALLIGRAPHY MASTERCLASS by Peter Halliday, CALLIGRAPHY by David Harris, LETTERING ARTS by JoAnne Fink, and PAINTING FOR CALLIGRAPHERS by Marie Angel. WORDS OF RISK, THE ART OF THOMAS INGMIRE by Michael Gullick, published in 1989, documents a large body of Ingmire's work.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 1984, Where Word and Image Meet -Thomas Ingmire, by Janet Wilson, CALLIGRAPHY IDEA
    EXCHANGE, Norman, Oklahoma, Vol. 2, No. 3
  • 1995, “The Art of Politics: A Discussion of Thomas Ingmire’s The American Way in the context of Jasper John’s Flag,” by Helen Malone , Letter Arts Review, Vol. 12, 1995
  • CALLIGRAPHY MASTERCLASS by Peter Halliday
  • CALLIGRAPHY by David Harris
  • LETTERING ARTS by Joanne Fink
  • PAINTING FOR CALLIGRAPHERS by Marie Angel
  • WORDS OF RISK, THE ART OF THOMAS INGMIRE by Michael Gullick1989,
Thomas Ingmire COLLECTIONS
  • Special Collections,The San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, USA
  • The Victoria Albert Museum, London, England
  • The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, USA
  • Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Kunste(Academy of Fine Arts), Berlin, Germany
  • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA, USA
  • The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA