2025 Workshops

Learn the basics of a Gourmet Pens-tweaked broad edge script, and receive a Pilot Parallel fountain pen, ink, and guide.

Azizah Asgalari Instructor. The goal of the Inky Messes workshop is to help pen and ink lovers approach their tools with a more curious outlook, and to work on ridding ourselves of the notion that we cannot just have fun! You will receive a selection of tools and supplies to explore so you may create and experience your inks to their fullest! Suitable (and fun!) for everyone, regardless of your skill level. Open to all ages. Let’s get inky!

Newbies to pens and art will have an introduction to casual sketching and receive a Platinum Preppy.

From one piece of premium paper, you'll fold and customize your own pocket-sized journal for ink swatching, journaling, urban sketches, and collecting pen show ephemera.

Tom Forsythe Instructor. Get over your fear of the blank page and get using those pens, notebooks, art supplies, stickers, and washi in fun and creative ways. Great for beginners and avid journalers looking for a new perspective.

Tom Forsythe Instructor. Join Tom from Sugar Turtle Studio for a series of exercises to stretch your creative muscles, expand your repertoire of creative journaling tools, and become a journaling genius.

Journaling is a connection between the act of creation and self exploration. Self-Portait starter kit included.

Create comic characters for your journals.

Sarah Greesonbach instructor. Learn how to make simple, beautiful, colorful images with watercolor and ink sketching and end up with art of which you can be proud!

Thien-Kim Lam Instructor. Illustrate your memories by creating a visual journal. Part part and part journaling, this method of memory keeping is a fun way to record the ordinary and not so ordinary moments in your life.

Thien-Kim Lam Instructor. Ink Mixing exploring CMYK color theory using fountain pen inks and shimmer additives.

Hands-on demonstration of Japanese stitch bookbinding.

Nikola Pang Instructor. Join Nikola Pang in learning the beautiful, classical, forms of Italic script! Cancelleresca, or Chancery hand, came about from a marriage of humanist and Roman forms and really hit its stride during the period we know as the Italian Renaissance.

Nikola Pang Instructor. Come learn the beautiful calligraphic style of copperplate script! Copperplate calligraphy, also known as roundhand, engrosser's, and engraver's script, is considered by most to be the mother of all pointed pen hands. It still stands as one of the most recognizable and highly demanded design elements in pointed pen calligraphic works. In this course we will go over a concise version of its history and learn to use dip pens in order to form the basic strokes of its construction.

Suzette Perez Instructor. This workshop is open to beginners and experienced collagers/journalers both, It is for those who want to learn about Collage journaling and tunnel pages.

Learn proper pen holding techniques, foundational letterforms, stroke mastery and receive a Modern Calligraphy Starter Kit including pen holders; quality ink, precision nibs, lint-free cloth; premium practice paper, detailed worksheets.

Link Tong Instructor. Learn about basic pop-up techniques. You will have a chance to make your own 3-4 pop-up cards.

Hands-on workshop to design, cut, and assemble you own magnetic bookmark.