In Person Classes

Cursive Hand or Business Hand - Which is it? by Marie Hornback - Level: Beginner Marie will guide you through the alphabet of upper- and lower-case letters helping you to learn a classic cursive handwriting style based on the handwriting systems of the...

Calligraphy on Vellum -Taking Your Lettering Beyond Paper by Maria Helena Hoksch - Level: Intermediate to Advanced This is a limited enrollment class on how to choose, buy, store, treat, prepare, and use vellum/parchment - an animal skin and the main...

Bridging the Digital Gap with iPad Calligraphy by Melissa Esplin - Level: Beginner As calligraphers, our hands are our own printers. We can reproduce just about anything with pen and paper. But what about large-scale reproductions? Designing physical...

Roman Minuscule: A New Perspective of Foundational Hand by Hoàng Dâo - Level: All Skill Levels Edward Johnston brought back the study of calligraphy with his “Foundational Hand” based on Carolingian minuscule. For many decades,...

The Bespoke Wedding Suite by Suzanne Cunningham - Level: All Skill Levels This class is perfect for the calligrapher who creates (or wants to create) wedding invitations and all the pieces included in an invitation suite. I’ll share my step-by-step...

Modern Gilding Techniques by Harvest Crittenden - Level: All Skill Levels In this class we will study some of the wonderful modern media for gilding with 23k gold leaf. We will go over flat and raised gilding, and complete a project using both flat and...

Mixing Colors Using CYMK by Harvest Crittenden - Level: All Skill Levels How much money have you wasted on paint? How many hours have you spent trying to mix the perfect matching ink? Learn the secret to using only 5 tubes of paint to mix any color for a...

Pointed Pen Straight Up by Barbara Close - Level: Beginner Pointed Pen ‘Straight Up’ came to me as I was experimenting with different looks. I loved the casual friendliness and started exploring more. It has an italic and script feel...

The Ins & Outs of Monograms by Skyler Chubak - Level: Intermediate In this class, we will go through a brief history of monograms where I will present periods and styles. We will sketch a handful of monograms, draw script monograms, and draft a more...

An Introduction to Spencerian Script by Kalo Chu – Level: All Skill Levels This is an introductory class to Spencerian Script - a historical style that was developed in America in the 1840s by Platt Rogers Spencer. Studying Spencerian helps to...

Super Flourishy Caps by Pat Blair - Level: Intermediate The more flourishes, the better! This class goes one step further from the “Flourished Capitals” class, adding even more swirls and flourished strokes to make these letters really pop...

PAScribe Geometric Textualis Quadrata by Paul Antonio - Level: All Skill Levels Note: This is a broad-edge pen class. I will not be teaching how to handle a broad edge in class, so if you have never used a broad-edged tool or are unsure, plan to attend...

3,500 Years of the Western Alphabet & Calligraphy Meditation Workshop by Paul Antonio – Level: All Skill Levels 3,500 Years of the Western AlphabetThis is an overview of the history of the western alphabet starting with Egyptian Hieroglyphs and...

The Power and Elegance of Gothicized Italics by Patti Adams - Level: All Skill Levels In this class, you will learn about one of the most popular calligraphic hands, Gothicized Italic. Characterized by its rhythmic vibrancy, this lively script uses the...

Simple Geometric Analysis of the Letters on Trajan’s Column & Drawing Contemporary Capitals as Illustrated by Tom Perkins – Level: (A) All Levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of...

An Italic Journey: Classic to Modern by Viktor Kams – Level: (I) Intermediate Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or...

Creative Versals Variations by Gaynor Goffe – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...

Once Upon a Circle… by Suzie Beringer – Level: (A) All levels Note: This class offering is ONLINE. Online participants will choose a total of 30 hours of online instruction (two 15-hour classes or one 30-hour class) via live and/or recorded...

Drawn to Letters: A Dutch Approach by Elmo van Slingerland – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Welcome to this letter drawing workshop created for calligraphy and lettering enthusiasts eager to expand their skills and delve into the captivating...

Capital Immersion by John Stevens – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Roman Capitals are magnificent and represent stature and purity of form. However, they are also mutable, meaning that there are many variations. This class starts with studying...

The Circle Keeps Expanding: Influences & Inspirateurs in Iowa by Carl Rohrs – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced Influences come from all corners of the writing universe and work that crosses disciplines, styles, and mediums. Everything we see...

Order & Chaos: The Secret of Composition by Massimo Polello – Level: (A) All levels "With order there is peacewith chaos creativitywith order there’s restwith chaos there’s pleasurewith order one can breathewith...

Codes & Other Alphabetic Mysteries by Brody Neuenschwander – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced We do pretty well with our 26 letters. But there are more ways to write a story. In this course we will look at some fanciful ways of creating codes...

Multifaceted Monoprints: Experiments in Movement, Form, Color & Texture by Suzanne Moore – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The play of fluidity and structure, tone, texture and color in the monoprint process offer options to create unique...

'I flamed amazement… by David McGrail – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced The pen grazes the paper and the ink flows...A journey begins that follows a straight line—the practice and skill of perfecting letterforms. And the ink spreads...

Father Catich’s Worst Nightmare by Yves Leterme – Level: (I/A) Intermediate/Advanced In this five-day workshop students will explore letterforms that hardly bear any resemblance to Catichs’s Trajans. In fact, almost as if to taunt the...

Paper to Print to Book to Art by Joseph Lappie – Level: (A) All levels This 5-day course provides participants the ability to have authorship over the creation of an editioned artist’s book. Four of the days will provide demonstrative...

Gothic Cursive & Medieval Vellum by Cheryl Jacobsen (Team-teaching with Madison Bennett) – Level: (I) Intermediate This immersive workshop offers hands-on experience turning a raw calfskin into vellum, a chance to handle medieval manuscripts at...

Thinking with Your Hands by Cyrus Highsmith – Level: (A) All levels Letters can be drawn in so many different ways. Cyrus Highsmith’s approach is based heavily on the importance of white space and sensitivity to shapes. It’s a method he...