Course Details & Booking

Dates
July 19-20th 2025

Location:
Washington DC - Venue TBC soon


Course fee:
$55 per session (including materials & Equipment)


Weekend pass (6 classes)

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Day 1 pass (3 classes) 19th July 2025

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Day 2 pass (3 classes) 20th July 2025

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Booking:
We require the course fee to be paid in order to register a place. Fees are non-refundable but can be transferred to any other other AOIP future presentations if 4 weeks’ notice of cancellation given.

 

Collaboration with the REED SOCIETY FOR THE SACRED ARTS

Learn Sacred Geometry from around the world

All classes differ from those taught in New York the previous week. Both sets of complimentary sessions can be attended without duplication.

Plus details for a session at the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington DC on the 18 July 2025 will be add to this page soon.

Geometric & Arabesque Patterns

2-day series, July 19-20th 2025

All course materials & equipment provided ~ Open to all abilities & ages.

Click the blue links below to register for the sessions

Register below for individual classes



DAY 1
19th July 2025

Geometric Islamic Pattern
9.30am – 11:30pm   $55

Using the traditional tools of compass and straight edge we will create a beautiful rosette.

 

Moroccan Patterns
1 – 3pm $55

We will construct classical zelij geometric rosettes from Fez and Marrakech.

Persian Patterns 
4 – 6pm $55

We will draw this famous radial pattern from The Jāmeh Mosque of Yazd.

DAY 2
20th July 2025

Moroccan stucco Patterns
9.30am – 11:30pm $55

Learn how to draw this biomorphic stucco 8 fold rosette from the Bou Inania Madrasa (1356) Fez Morocco.

Arabesque Patterns
1 – 3pm $55

Create a beautiful 6 fold ‘Rumi/Islimi pattern’ from Kerman & learn about the ‘Rumi’ family of biomorphic motifs.

Geometric Persian Patterns
4 – 6pm $55

This session will focus on building patterns from medieval Persia and 5&10-fold symmetry.

Also in International Study Trips

New York ~ Brooklyn ~ July 25′

New York ~ Brooklyn ~ July 25′

2-day Series in New York, includes 4 separate sessions July 2025

Uzbekistan ~ October 2025

Uzbekistan ~ October 2025

Uzbekistan Study Trip for the Autumn of 2025, it will take place in the ancient Samarkand, Bukhara & Khiva.

New Mexico, USA ~ Summer School ~ July 2025

New Mexico, USA ~ Summer School ~ July 2025

New Mexico ~ Summer School ~ Summer 2025

Budapest ~ May ’25

Budapest ~ May ’25

3 day workshop in Budapest

Granada ~ Sept ’25

Granada ~ Sept ’25

Studying patterns of the Alhambra and create a leather embossing artwork. 17 - 20th Sept 2025

Marrakech ~ April ’25

Marrakech ~ April ’25

Study trip to Marrakech, Morocco. 14th – 18th April 2025

India ~ Nov ’25

India ~ Nov ’25

Join us for an artist immersion into the otherworldly wonders of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. We will draw geometric and biomorphic ornamental pattern...

Istanbul ~ Sept ’25

Istanbul ~ Sept ’25

Classes within the exceptionally well-appointed 17th century Tekke in the heart of the historic area. 10th - 14th Sept 2025

Cairo ~ April ’26

Cairo ~ April ’26

Visits to the famous medieval Sultan Hasan Mosque & Ibn Tulun Mosque. The course will take place at the historic UNESCO Bayt Yakan

Córdoba/Sevilla Sept ’25

Córdoba/Sevilla Sept ’25

Four-day workshop in Córdoba & Seville, Spain studying Moorish Patterns, 22 - 25 September 2025

Fez, Morocco ~ April ’25

Fez, Morocco ~ April ’25

Study trip to Fez, Morocco. 21-25th April 2025

Galleries

Galleries

Pictures and films from courses, study trips plus students' and tutors' works