Graceful, and Award-Winning, Envelopes
PEN WORLD|December 2022
In 2022, the Washington D.C. Calligrapher Guild's annual Graceful Envelope Contest invited contestants to send their "Greetings and Salutations.
Graceful, and Award-Winning, Envelopes

" The annual contest invites adults and children to submit an envelope exhibiting artistic and calligraphic skills in the style of the yearly theme.

For the 2022 "Greetings and Salutations" contest, "artists were challenged to capture on an envelope the magic of beginning to read or write a personal letter," says Graceful Envelope Contest Coordinator Erin Cassidy. "We had about 300 submissions this year.

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