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Taught by internationally respected calligraphers.
Slow down.
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Create beautiful work with your own hands.
Join a centuries-old tradition that still has something important to teach us today.
Find Your Next Class
New classes are added throughout the year — here's what's on the calendar right now.
The Pointed Pen Academy
A full year of steady, guided progress through seven pointed pen scripts — from your very first stroke to work you never thought you'd be capable of.
- Copperplate through Flourishing, one connected curriculum
- Capped at 20 students
- Personal feedback from Cheryl
- A year-long community of fellow students
The Artist's Way for Calligraphers
Your muse is not stuck in traffic. This 14-week live journey through Julia Cameron's classic creative recovery course is built for calligraphers ready to stop waiting for inspiration, loosen perfectionism's grip, and give themselves permission to make, experiment, play, and follow the ideas that keep tapping them on the shoulder.
- 14 weeks, live
- Recordings included
- Personal feedback
- Community
Stunning Envelopes & Gift Tags
Turn the envelope into part of the art. Learn creative ways to address, design, and embellish envelopes that make the recipient excited before they even open the mail.
- 2 live sessions
- 90-day replay
- Personal feedback
Spencerian Signatures
You sign your name more than you write almost anything else. So why does it still look like you're rushing through a DMV line? Build your own Spencerian signature from the ground up, starting clean and classic, then layering in shading, and finally pushing into the kind of compound, sweeping flourishes that turn a name into a piece of art you'd frame.
- Live instruction
- 90-day replay
- Personal feedback
- Assumes some pointed pen experience, ideally with Spencerian background
The Art of Broad-Edge Flourishing
Discover how elegant flourishes add movement, balance, and personality to your calligraphy, using Italic as the foundation.
- 5 live sessions
- 90-day replay
- Personal feedback
- Community
Fraktur
Discover the bold beauty of Fraktur. Build confidence with this dramatic broad-edge hand while learning the essential strokes, letterforms, rhythm, and structure that make it unmistakable.
- 5 live sessions
- 90-day replay
- Personal feedback
- Community
Illuminated Borders
Paint medieval-inspired floral borders, illuminated letters, and broad-edge calligraphy, taking inspiration straight from The New York Public Library's Rare Books and Manuscripts archive.
- 4 live sessions
- Watercolour, illumination & Textura calligraphy
- Personal feedback
Intro to Text Flourishing
Turn simple lettering into movement, flow, and elegant expression, with the core principles that make flourishing feel natural instead of forced.
- 4 live sessions
- Movement, balance & spacing fundamentals
- Personal feedback
Intro to Arabic-Persian Composition
Discover how letters, words, negative space, scale, and movement work together in the Arabic-Persian tradition to create compositions far greater than the letterforms alone. No experience needed, just curiosity.
- Single live class or 4-class series
- Personal feedback
- Community
Make the Christmas Card They Keep
A wonderfully festive, hands-on class devoted to creating beautiful Christmas cards by hand — the kind that stay on the mantel until February.
- Live instruction with Amrita Sokhy
- Real-time feedback during class
- Festive layouts & lettering styles
Your Life. On Paper. Only Prettier.
A hands-on introduction to bullet journaling for people who love pens, lettering, paper and the satisfaction of putting ink on a page. Start with one class, or build the habit across all six.
- 6 live sessions with Janet Murata
- Journal fundamentals, lettering, paint, paper & more
- Personal feedback
The Second Life of Paper
An eight-class creative series devoted to turning practice paper, experiments, scraps and other would-be castoffs into things worth keeping, giving and showing off. Starting just in time for Christmas.
- 8 monthly live sessions with Janet Murata
- Class One: From Practice Paper to Christmas Ornament
- Personal feedback
A Little Letter. A Lot of Pretty.
A class devoted to making letters that bloom — using the magic of the glass pen, plenty of colour, and absolutely no intention of being restrained about the flowers.
- Single live class or 4-class series
- Glass pen & floral monogram techniques
- Personal feedback
New Classes Added Regularly
We're building out our full 2027 class calendar, plus a library of recorded classes you can take anytime.
Four days. Twelve world-class instructors. One unforgettable festival.
Flourish Festival brings together twelve of the world's leading calligraphers for a weekend of hands-on workshops, from broad-edge classics to pointed pen flourishing, plus à la carte experiences like in-person gemstone painting with De Mairo Studio. Come as a stranger, leave as family.
Explore the Festival »More than a tutorial
Small By Design
Classes are intentionally small, so you get real feedback, not just a video to watch alone.
Learn From Working Artists
Our instructors are working artists and seasoned teachers — you're learning from people who've done the work.
Recordings Available
Many classes include recordings, so you can revisit a technique or catch up on a session you missed.
A Real Community
Connected to Flourish Festival and Calligraphy Chronicles — you're joining more than a single class.
Ready to make something beautiful?
Browse this season's classes and find the one that's calling your name.
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