A. Japanese Ikebana to European designs.
B. Home design to corporate arrangement:
C. Hobby to business arrangement:
D. Affordable to expensive program:
E. Easy to difficult arrangement:
F. Wedding to funeral decoration:
G. Short Seminar to official course:
H. Small to large scale designs:
I. Beginner to professional levels
J. Affordable to expensive programs:
We find some students are at a loss about which program/course they should sign up for, OR which program they should start from for learning floral arrangement. We provide Course Selection Guide to students who have no idea about choosing the program that fits their needs. From student to student, the goal of learning floral design is different. Depending on their taste, budget, purpose and goal, the choice of program is different.
A. Japanese Ikebana to European arrangement:
In Japan, traditional Ikebana and European floral arrangement are very popular. And both floral arts are supported by large number of fans. The owner of our floral school has certification of instructor from two organizations. One is from Japanese Ikebana organization (Yanagi Koryu School) and the other is from Flower Decorators Association who promotes European floral art. Therefore no matter which floral designs you want to learn we can help. Here in the United States, if you want to learn floral designs for doing floral business (such as running a floral shop, working for a florist as a floral designer OR engage in offering wedding or funeral flower decorating services), it is better to learn European floral arrangement. If you are interested in Japanese traditional culture and want to learn Japanese traditional Ikebana arrangement, we can also help.
B. Home decoration to corporate arrangement:
For domestic flower decoration, both European floral design and Ikebana arrangement can be used. For corporate arrangement such as hotel entrance hall arrangement, banquet room floral decoration, elevator hall console table arrangement and reception counter decoration, European style floral arrangement MAY be suitable although Ikebana arrangement can be also displayed. We can teach both arrangements.
C. Hobby to business arrangement:
Both European and Ikebana arrangements can be used for hobby. When it comes to business use, European arrangement is much better in the United States. The most popular business arrangement is wedding and funeral decorations. You can learn both arrangements at our school.
D. Affordable to expensive program:
Depending on the budget of students, they can make a best choice from our wide range of programs.
E. Easy to difficult designs:
Students start with easy arrangements. As they continue learning, the curriculum of the course covers high end designs that are difficult to make. Students who already earned basic skills qualify to challenge more and more difficult designs.
F. Wedding to funeral decorations:
Wedding flower decorations and funeral floral arrangements dominate floral designs.
As far as you sell, at a floral shop, cut flowers, it is difficult to remarkably increase the sales amount and profit. In order to make a breakthrough on the business expansion, it MAY be a good idea to start wedding and funeral flower decoration services. The way of decorations and arrangements for these two events are different from ordinary floral arrangements. Students can learn these arrangements as well.
G. Short seminar to official course:
Compared with the situation in Japan or some other Asian countries, it looks like most American people prefer one day seminar to official long course. In order to satisfy such demand, we offer short seminar programs in addition to official courses.
Depending on the taste and budget, our students can make a choice of whatever
program they like.
H. Small to large scale designs:
If you want to make floral decoration for your home, you had better learn how to make smaller size of floral arrangements. However if you are planning to engage in making corporate floral arrangements or events decorations, you need to earn skills of large scale floral arrangements. We teach various designs with various sizes.
I. Beginner to professional levels:
The vast majority of our students learn floral arrangements only after joining our school. Therefore we offer lots of programs designed for beginners. After they have earned a reasonable level of floral arranging skills, many of them want to learn a higher level of floral designs. And eventually some limited number of students who are very enthusiastic to earn professional level of floral arranging skills are recommended to join the highest level of course by the name of
Fresh Flower Arrangement Instructor Course or
Wedding Floral Decoration Advanced Course. We teach any level of floral designs depending on the requirement of each student.
J. Affordable to expensive programs:
From student to student the budget for learning floral arrangement is different. In order to satisfy a broad range of requests, California Flower Art Academy offers various programs/courses ranging from affordable to expensive ones. The most affordable one is
Introductory Trial Budget Program for experiencing the lesson of European floral arrangement.
For more information, feel free to contact info@california-academy.com
