Karen Charatan creates pen, brush, and drawn lettering as well as calligraphic paintings. The range of work in her 30-year career includes advertising lettering, greeting cards, point-of-purchase displays, murals and sign design. Karen has taught brush lettering, business card design and sign writing for the annual international lettering arts conferences and for many of the calligraphy guilds in the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. She exhibits her abstract calligraphic paintings with a group of Asian and Western fine artists. Her works are included in the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL.