

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Workshop – Folded Pen Fun!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 12:30 pm – Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Instructor: Julie Kechele 

A folded pen is a versatile metal tool used for calligraphy and mark-making. In this workshop, we will experiment with both commercially produced and handmade folded pens using ink and gouache (opaque watercolor) on various papers. Lettering with this tool will be demonstrated, and participants will be urged to try writing letters and words. However, no calligraphy experience is required; this tool lends itself to free-form lettering and mark-making rather than the more formal style of most calligraphic hands. The focus will be on discovering what kinds of marks can be made with the pen. These practice papers can be cropped for collage, artist trading cards, or to make a small box. 

 
All supplies are provided, including a simple, folded pen to keep. Optional: Please bring any folded pens that you have.

Teens/Adult All Levels
$55

Julie Kechele is a calligrapher and exhibiting and teaching artist who has studied with nationally and internationally known calligraphers; served on the board of Southwest Michigan's Pen Dragons Calligraphy Guild for many years, and taught calligraphy at Kalamazoo Valley Community College from 2016 through 2020. Julie is committed to passing along her enthusiasm for calligraphic arts and has become a regular instructor for the KBAC.

Register at https://kalbookarts.org/workshops/folded-pen/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kalamazoo/workshop-folded-pen-fun/200028737487522
- **Event Categories**: art, workshops, fine-arts, business
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://kalbookarts.org/workshops/folded-pen/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=kalamazoo-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Kalamazoo
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 326 W Kalamazoo Ave, Ste. 103A, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007
- **lat**: 42.29459
- **long**: -85.58651
- **full address**: 326 W Kalamazoo Ave, Ste. 103A, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (https://allevents.in/org/kalamazoo-book-arts-center/24989946)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 12:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 326 W Kalamazoo Ave, Ste. 103A, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, workshops, fine-arts, business
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Workshop – Folded Pen Fun! ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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