Timothy Botts

She [3] recognized his artistic ability and continued as his art teacher throughout his elementary years and followed him into high school.

During his freshman year at Carnegie Mellon, he was introduced to calligraphy as a requirement for his graphic design major.

[2] Rather than being drafted to Vietnam, the couple were sent to Japan for three years where they taught conversational English and where Botts took Japanese brush writing for five weeks.

[4] He used a mixture of Runes styled calligraphy as well as ancient African scripts he came across from some research of Saki Mafundikwa.

His teaching can be found at the College of DuPage and an intermediate class at The Fine Line in St. Charles, Illinois.