Collection is open for researchers.
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The Encore Group is a Winston-Salem group of calligraphers and bookbinders led by local artist Joyce Teta, a former Winston-Salem Artist of the Year (1996). Teta also founded Calligraphy Centre in 1984. Other artists featured in this set of materials include 14 other artists: Melrose Buchanan, Joann Buzulencia, Sheila Cheek, Anne Cowie, Susan Davis, Pat Evans, Christopher McLachlan, Patty Pape, Kerr Peltro, Adrianne Proctor, Elizabeth Simmonds, Takako Takigawa, Sandy Wagner, and Barbara Yale-Read.
Encore Group Collection of Bible Versals (MS899), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
The collection contains 26 small Bibles, each decorated as a letter of the alphabet. All have an attributed artist.