Julie Remmerde is a calligrapher who owns and operates Black Cat Studio in Vancouver, Washington. She has been in business for 25 years doing commission work for professional and government organizations, schools and colleges, local businesses, churches, hospitals and individuals in the Portland-Vancouver area. She taught calligraphy for 30 years in Oregon and Washington. Her style of writing is readable, simple and tasteful. She is a member of two professional calligraphy societies and attends national and regional workshops and conventions.    

Her personal interests include organic vegetable and cut-flower gardening, walking, biking, camping and cross-country skiing. She lives in West Vancouver in a l906 home with her husband Jim Lehman and their new cat, Taffy.