If you are seriously planning to work as a professional floral designer or floral decorator, it is so important to take official flower arranging lessons from a reliable instructor rather than depending upon self-education. If you think about future possibilities for you to develop your skills and to become able to make your own creative designs reflecting your own idea or concept,  you should not hesitate to make a certain amount of investment for taking floral design lessons. If you have mastered high level of floral designing skills and succeed in working as a floral artist such as a wedding floral decorator, funeral floral designer or floral shop owner etc., you can most probably pay off such investment. In this sense, California Flower Art Academy always recommend new students to start from Fresh Flower Arrangement Elementary Course (“elementary course”) before taking lessons of higher level of course such as Wedding Floral Decoration Course or Funeral Flower Arrangement Course.

Once in a while, our school is approached by “professional” floral designers who are already engaged in floral decoration industry as a floral designer or florist. In most of such cases, the reason behind their approach to our school is that they have never experienced to have official trainings of flower arranging and they depended upon self-education.  While working in the floral indsutry, they became to know that they coulc not make break-through for making their own creative designs although they can do various decorations by imitating or duplicating other designers’ floral designs.  Therefore they would like to start from scratch OR they want to acquire fundamental skills of flower arrangements so that they can develop their skills towards  the next level of decorations.

California Flower Art Academy’s elementary course consists of 15 different designs (As of April 7, 2009.  Curriculum and conditions subject to change in the future) starting from all round shape center piece decoration and ending with birthday wreath making. To make one design, it usually takes 60 to 90 minutes. Therefore you need to attend approximately twnety hour (more or less)  lessons in order to complete elementary course.  If you make all the designs introduced in this course, you can experience various types of floral decorations and it is easy for you to proceed to the next level of course such as Wedding Floral Decoration or Funeral Flower Arranging Course etc.

Since this course is a pretty long one and it costs $390 (tuition and flower materials fee), some students hesitate to enroll in this program. For such kind of people we offer Introductory Trial Budget Program (for only $69) which is part of elementary course.  This introductory program is provided for you to evaluate our way of instructions and the quality of our lessons. After you feel comfortable and satisfied with our instructions, you can roll over to elementary course.

Lessons are offered at our San Jose main classroom (near the City of Cupertino close to the intersection of freeway 85 and De Anza Blvd) and also at our Burlingame extension class (in San Mateo County near San Francisco Airport) on weekdays and also weekend.  Daytime and evening lessons are available to support busy people.

If you need any more information or have interest in above programs,  please email to info@california-academy.com

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