Instructor Bio:

At the age of 10, Emily Canter’s father took her to see The Book of Kells, and she
immediately discovered within herself a powerful admiration for the forms of letters.
The experience began an overwhelming desire to buy fountain pens and copy manuscript
styles, unaware that there was a thing called “calligraphy” at all. The interest continues to this day.

An English major from the University of Texas, Canter has used her education to
combine the written word with the illustrated image and made a career of that
combination doing illustration, copy writing, art direction and web development for
companies like IBM, Sony, Duracell, and the company she and husband Geoff own, Digital Tigers.

Ms. Canter also enjoys a symbiotic interest in the study of history that leads to interesting
connections between lands, languages, and alphabets – how these travelled across the
globe and reflected the styles and stories of their civilizations, and how they come to have
symbolic meaning for contemporary minds.