Explore the basics of calligraphy using watercolor paint and brushes as we explore letter forms and flourishes with Elyse Gambino. You’ll design a personal emblem to use in the creation of your own unique stationery to spruce up your correspondence or just enhance your personal notes.

Elyse Gambino is an artist and educator based in Lansing, Michigan. While her studio practice is concerned with oil painting and digital collage, her teaching includes foundations in drawing and design, life drawing, art appreciation and theory as well as painting. Gambino is an avid crafter and has fallen in love with the art of letter forms and calligraphy.

At Literati Bookstore, we believe that learning is a necessary pleasure. We believe that reading makes us not only curious and knowledgeable, but also kinder. We created Local Learning at Literati because we wanted to create accessible opportunities for learning in our community: affordable, welcoming to beginners, unfussy, and taught by passionate, dedicated experts.