Harvest Crittenden has been a professional
lettering artist for more than 30 years. Harvest studied fine arts in college and after a move from Detroit to Arizona in 1976 she began to study calligraphy under Dick Beasley, a well respected teacher and member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators. A new love was born - lettering as an art form.

Harvest owned The Gold Leaf, a lettering studio specializing in hand lettered, gilded name plates, for 20 years. It was a huge success, but along with success came the yearning for work that was more meaningful and fulfilling. Harvest sold that business and started studying in depth the Scribal Arts of the Renaissance when faith and work and home were never considered separate but one. God was the center of all.

Harvest now specializes in the Scribal Arts, illuminating words that inspire and support our ever changing world. Harvest has made several trips to Italy and Ireland to continue that study, and founded Acorn Arts, her new company, with that in mind. She has included other artists and calligraphers who share that vision.Together they hope to make a meaningful contribution and give a percentage of all profits to charity.

Harvest is a past recipient of the Marjorie Pavelich Calligraphy Grant. She has taught at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center and Hollander's School of Book and Paper Arts. She is the past President of the Michigan Association of Calligraphers. She has taught workshops around the country and has been invited to teach at two International Conferences of Calligraphers. She has been published in Somerset Studio Magazine, Bound and Lettered magazine twice, featured in Detroit Metro Bride and has exhibited in numerous juried shows. Her work is in museums and private collections around the world.

In 2007 Harvest has been invited to teach in Connecticut, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Florida and Georgia. She currently teaches for the St. Michael’s Institute of Sacred Arts and is one of only 7 artists invited to teach at the National Catholic Youth Conference, attended by thousands. Harvest is a hospice volunteer, and a certified Reiki Master.

Harvest lives with her husband, Larry, and daughter, Emily, in a charming little town in Michigan.