HARVEST CRITTENDEN has been a professional lettering artist for more than 30 years. Past owner of The Gold Leaf and founder of Acorn Arts, Harvest specializes in calligraphy with ethereal illustrations, illuminating words that inspire and support our ever-changing world. Harvest is a past winner of the Marjorie Pavelich Calligraphy Grant and past president of The Michigan Association of Calligraphers. She has studied illumination and lettering in the United States and Italy and has been invited to teach at numerous international calligraphy conferences.

Harvest has spent several years studying the very special skills of the American Engrossers who flourished in our country a century ago and is proud to have earned a Master Engrosser Certificate under the tutelage of Michael Sull.
In 2009 Harvest was accepted as a candidate in the Master Penman Program through Iampeth, the Internation Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting.

Harvest teaches for the St. Michael Institute of Sacred Arts, The Religious Sisters of Mercy, Hollanders School of Book and Paper Arts and offers workshops around the country. Her work can be seen in museums, galleries and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. She has been published in Somerset Studio, Conde Nast Bride, Bound and Lettered, Metro Detroit Bride, and American Art Review.

Harvest lives with her husband, Larry, and daughter, Emily, in a charming little town in Michigan.
Copyright 2010 Harvest Crittenden, Acorn Arts. All rights reserved.
The works contained within these pages are original art and covered under copyright law.
Reproduction in any form without expressed written permission is prohibited.