1) Contact the College
The first step is to contact the College, either the Chancellor (head of the College) or your local Signet(Mist, Cynagua or Oertha) - we're pretty easy to find!
- Use the email links on the primary scribal page
- Use the contact info in The Page (the West Kingdom newsletter)
- Look under "officers" on the Kingdom or Principality websites
- Attend any scribal class at Collegium or A&S, and ask the instructor
- Attend any local scriptorium and ask the group organizer
2) Become Warranted
Once you're in touch with us, we can walk you through the process of becoming warranted in the College of Scribes. "Warrant" sounds impressively official, but it really just means we know who you are and how to contact you, you know something about us and how we work, and we know something about your art. So this involves:
- Collecting your contact info
- You review College policies and let us know that you agree to work within them
- We take a look at your "exemplar"
- We tell you that you are "warranted" and put you to work!
3) Get an Assignment
You can use the assignment request process to search for and request an interesting project from our backlog, or you can contact the Chancellor or local Signet for help.
The Exemplar
This is where people get nervous - it's always hard to put your efforts on display, especially if you think you're going to be judged in some way. The College is honestly interested in all the help it can get, but it also has a responsibility to deliver a certain level of artistic quality. We do that by evaluating your work, and sometimes making suggestions about:
- Materials that might lend more permanence to your work
- Techniques that might help achieve a medieval look and feel
- People who can mentor you, if you're interested
- How you can start working with the College right away!
Exemplars can take the form of an actual sample of your art, produced for this purpose. However, we believe in more practical applications as well, so we encourage illuminators to paint up a charter that can be used by the royalty, or a calligrapher to write out an AoA promissory text - that way we might be able to kill two birds with one stone! Both these projects can be accomplished at any local scribal practice, where you can also connect with scribes in a casual, social setting. If you can't make it to a local practice, talk to the Chancellor or Signets about creating an exemplar that is "usable art".
