October 14 Program – Finding Letters in the Wild with Heather Martinez

October 2026 Program

Finding Letters in the Wild: Take a Lettering Tour

Presented by Heather Martinez

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

6:30pm MDT on Zoom

Members: free, Non-members: $10

Members need not register. Non-members please register below. A zoom link will be sent to current members and program registrants a few days before the program. This program will be recorded for future viewing until November 15, 2026.

Program Description

Signs are everywhere, but how often do we really stop to look at the letters?

Join lettering artist Heather Leavitt Martinez on a visual tour through Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam, Melbourne, San Francisco, Paris, and a few unexpected stops along the way. Drawing from her international lettering workshops and walking tours, Heather will share how to spot lettering inspiration in the wild, identify the tools and techniques behind the forms, and turn streets, storefronts, murals, neon signs, and even discarded cardboard into a classroom.

You’ll leave inspired to slow down, look closer, sketch more, and perhaps create a lettering tour of your own.

About Heather

Heather Leavitt Martinez is a lettering artist, author, educator, and visual facilitator whose superpower is seeing patterns, especially in the shapes, rhythms and structures of letters. She has taught lettering internationally, led lettering tours around the world and is the author of Lettering Journey.

For the Blackwing Foundation, Heather developed an intuitive, beautifully versatile cursive writing system based on Italic, created to help children build confidence and fluency in handwriting. She is also a Neuland Ambassador and Blackwing Ambassador.

To letter with Heather at any age, visit LetsLetterTogether.com. To explore her children’s lettering and handwriting work with the Blackwing Foundation, visit blackwingfoundation.org/letteringseries/.