Welcome to Calligraphy Centre. Artists of the written word.
We do calligraphy and we teach it. This site contains information on classes and the twice yearly, week-long calligraphy retreat known as Cheerio Calligraphy Retreats. Calligrapher's from around the world gather to study with the best calligraphers & lettering artists in to world. Other related bookarts topics are covered with a special 1x year book-making workshop in the spring.

The studio of Joyce Teta features calligraphic services such as wedding invitations, certificates, envelope addressing and other social & business types of calligraphy & special commisions. John Stevens offers a complete graphic design studio for logos & lettering for identity, packaging & book jacket design. Galleries of both artists' work appear here. If you would like to learn calligraphy, visit our resources page.

Video clips of John Stevens demonstrating brush and pen calligraphy
Latest Pictures from the Tom Perkins & Gaynor Goffe workshops

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John Stevens

The word calligraphy literally means beautiful writing. Before the invention of the printing press some 500 years ago, it was the way books were made, each copy being written out by hand by a scribe in a scriptorium on materials like vellum or parchment with a quill…
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