An Inspired Chat with Adara Meyers

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Adara Meyers. Check out our conversation below.

Adara, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
Two things: slowly but surely collecting fountain pens, and laughing until I cry and fall over watching What We Do In The Shadows.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m the owner and creative director of Adara Meyers Calligraphy, a Boston-based company I founded in 2023. As a classically-trained pointed-pen calligrapher with a background in experimental theatre, I specialize in imaginative custom wedding invitations and live calligraphy, engraving, and hot foiling for corporate, brand, and marketing events. Everything I create loops back to the inimitable warmth and distinctive quality of handmade fine art, and I love pairing story and craftsmanship in order to meaningfully express what’s most personal and dear to my clients.

Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
I grew up around the corner from the Jefferson Market Library in Manhattan. To a child’s eye, it looks like an intriguing castle. It was built in the Victorian era as a courthouse, and it’s such a mainstay visual and historical fixture of the West Village. So when I was around 6 years old, my mom took me up the entrance stairs and through the main reference room so I could fill out my own library card application. I remember feeling like this was a huge deal and like I was being let in on a secret world, though I couldn’t find the words for this sense. Looking back, I understand that anticipation and delight in the unknown is what so often unites readers, writers, and artists of all ages. Words always make me feel powerful and interdependent: first as a reader, then as a playwright for many years, and now as a calligrapher and stationer.

What fear has held you back the most in your life?
I used to endlessly worry about not doing enough at any given moment. It’s something I now slightly worry about: this fear of not having enough time to explore every good idea or motivation. While this fear isn’t inherently bad, there have been countless times in my life where I haven’t stopped to just acknowledge the moment in and of itself, or acknowledge all that I’ve done. When you don’t fully recognize or celebrate what you’ve done, there’s a part of you that stays blocked off from the deeper lessons of joy, challenge, and experimentation that can make incredible, transformative difference in your future work, relationships, creative practice.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
The notion that human creativity’s highest purpose is to serve technological automation. I can’t overstate how much I disagree with this! Mechanical processes should support — not control, not direct — our ability to think, feel, question, and create for any and all reasons we dream of. The perfectly-imperfect expressions of art, science, the humanities, and dialogue are what bring meaning and new possibility to our lives.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. When do you feel most at peace?
With my husband: seeing our favorite rock bands perform.
With our young kids: piled up on the couch and reading books.
By myself: walking long avenue blocks at night in Manhattan.

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Image Credits
Shannon Grant Photography
Castillo Holliday Photo & Film
Hedi Field Photography
Shannon Grant Photography
Derrick Zellmann Photography
Katherine Brackman Photography
Adara Meyers

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