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Marilyn Reaves is an educator, artist, and calligrapher of many talents. She has taught classes on lettering and design, drawing, watercolor, and more throughout the United States and Canada. Reaves received an MFA in Visual Design from the University of Oregon, where she teaches classes and works amongst rare books and manuscripts in the university library's Special Collections. Eliza Schulte Holliday is a free-lance calligrapher and letterist w… Read more

Hey, guys! Nina Tran (@anintran) from Los Angeles, CA here. The first thing I want to share: Speedball lettering nibs! Have you seen some of these before? Randy Hasson blew my mind at the 70th IAMPETH @iampethofficial conference this year at his lecture on the history of Speedball and in his "Writing with a Bent Nib" class.The supply list alone for Randy's class was intriguing enough to get me to sign up! I just had to know what a "bent n… Read more

Michael R. Sull is a certified IAMPETH Master Penman who has dedicated most of his life to teaching the technique and history of American penmanship around the world. Sull has taught handwriting, calligraphy, and engrossing in thirteen countries and forty-five states over the course of his thirty-five year career. In 1979 he founded the Tidewater Calligraphy Guild in Virginia, and became a calligrapher at Hallmark Cards, Inc in 1981. After leavin… Read more

Calligrapher, author, exhibiting artist, and teacher Eleanor Winters has been an active participant in the calligraphy community for decades. Winters's resume includes a long list of artistic achievements and contributions; she was director of New York City's Calligraphy Workshop for 25 years, a Professor of Art at Long Island University, and is currently a faculty member of the New York Society of Scribes calligraphy program. Winters teaches wor… Read more