In-Person Classes
To learn more about my approach to teaching, please read “My Ten Principles.”
“This was my first class with you, and it exceeded my expectations and brought me exactly what I dared to hope for—allowing me to take my practice of art into a more more essential, integrated, and nurturing place in my life.”
— Cynthia, Speak to Me From Everywhere | Nov 2020
Here & Now Again
This class is full. To get on the wait list, register below.
Because we love working together so much in this spectacular venue in Tuscany, we decided to offer our course again, with unpredictable improvisational changes. We have a pool, amazing food, a lot of room to work in different spaces, a half-day off to explore, and we are hoping to have another fantastic group of students. The result of this course will be a book you make with the four international teachers. The theme of the book will be “Here and Now Again”. …..
The Calligraphic Line | San Francisco
This class is full.
We will work with phrases, or short quotes, that have meaning for you. Notice what touches you, what you respond to, and begin collecting words from poems or songs or newspapers or books or conversation, and write or paste them down.
Leap Before You Look | Berlin
This class is full.
Hans-Joachim Burgert, German sculptor and calligrapher, was a hero of mine before I knew his name. Like Paul Klee, he experimented with quality of line through rhythm, contrast, direction and repetition. This class is based on a love for Burgert’s work, and a continuing striving to understand more. We will explore drawing and writing with ink, pencil and paint, using various calligraphic and found tools. The class will be held at Akademie der Künste in Berlin, where we have access to his original work. Through this study, I hope that we will all make new discoveries in his work, and in our own. We will make a simple book showing our explorations.
“Make Your Own Bible” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | Taos, NM
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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This idea, along with Gerard Manley Hopkins idea of “inscape”, (which I will address later) is what is fueling the theme for my 2023 classes.
Martin Ray “Young at Heart” Memorial Scholarship
New scholarship in honor of a treasured student