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Doors Open Day at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy

Doors Open Day at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
We are happy to announce that this Saturday, September 16, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy will open its doors again after the summer holidays and the exhibition preparations.

Final calligraphy class in the season

Final calligraphy class in the season
Tuesday, July 11th, the final class of the Pointed Pen calligraphy course was held in the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, also being the final calligraphy class in the 2016-2017 season. As per tradition, Atrem Lebedev handed out personal certificates and wished them to pursue their calligraphy practice.

Vyaz: traditions and modern age

Vyaz: traditions and modern age
The warm summer day of June 10 has seen the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy welcoming enthusiasts of one of the most beautiful Slavonic writing scripts, which is Vyaz. There is growing interest to Slavonic writing lately, and many contemporary calligraphy artists create to redefine our writing legacy.

Summer courses in the National Calligraphy School

Summer courses in the National Calligraphy School
For all who stay in Moscow on summer holidays, we have an idea for you to spend some quality time and complete a calligraphy course in the National Calligraphy School

Alphabet Book Alive

Alphabet Book Alive
Last Sunday the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy held the Bilibin's Style Capital workshop led by artist Marina Khankova, author of a unique handwritten alphabet book and illustrations to the Russian Alphabet Book Illustrated by Marina Khankova.

Mysteries of Japanese calligraphy unveiled at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy

Mysteries of Japanese calligraphy unveiled at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
April 29th, renowned Japanese masters Sashida Takefusa, Hirose Shoko and Sauri Ishimaru held a workshop at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy. The participants learned about the ancient kanji calligraphy style, practiced writing their names and created traditional Japanese personal seals.

Spring and summer activities at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy

Spring and summer activities at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
Saturday, April 29th, the final class of the Pointed pen course was held at the National School of Calligraphy. Students studied the Cyrillic Cursive Uncial script as well as the basic rules of creating a celebrative lettering composition.

Lettering crash course held in the Museum

Lettering crash course held in the Museum
April 22nd, a crash course on celebrating lettering was held in the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy. The crash course format allows students to get to know within short timeframes both the theory and practice of a calligraphy skill: in case of lettering, they learned about various kinds of scripts, numerous instruments applied in lettering, the rules of letter arrangement.

Japanese Calligraphy workshop

Japanese Calligraphy workshop
On April 29 at 16:00 the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy will hold a Japanese calligraphy workshop led by recognized experts Sashida Takefusa, Hirose Seko and Sauri Ishimaru.

The Bilibin's Style Capital

The Bilibin's Style Capital

Dear all, we are happy to invite you to the workshop for all ages, dubbed The Bilibin's Style Capital, which will be held on May 14 at 13:00.

Lettering crash course in the National Calligraphy School

Lettering crash course in the National Calligraphy School
On April 22 at 15:00 a lettering crash course starts in the National Calligraphy School. We welcome anyone who fancies creating letters and invent original script compositions as well as all those who are just about to learn it.

Last Sunday, April 2, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy held an intensive workshop dubbed “Calligraphy for Children. Broad Pen”

Last Sunday, April 2, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy held an intensive workshop dubbed “Calligraphy for Children. Broad Pen”
The introductory part was designed to consult lefthander children and their parents. Teacher Ekaterina Orfanova, who is a lefthander too, has told about special movements and paper positioning, offered comfortable sitting and pen holding manners. Some practice followed: the first test of the pen was to complete simple exercises through custom workbooks developed by Ekaterina for the occasion.

Graduation of the children’s calligraphy course

Graduation of the children’s calligraphy course
Last Saturday, March 25, 2017 was the graduation day for the younger students of the National School of Calligraphy at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy. The museum hall emanated the atmosphere of anticipation and celebration. As the children gathered for class, they

Pointed Pen at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy

Pointed Pen at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
Last Sunday, March 12th, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy held a workshop on pointed pen techniques. The teacher of the National School of Calligraphy Artyom Lebedev explained the basics of working with the pointed pen and the most popular script written with it: Copperplate.

Calligraphy and cadel flourishing at Broad Pen crash course

Calligraphy and cadel flourishing at Broad Pen crash course
On Sunday, March 5, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy saw a broad pen crash course. The 5-hour agenda provided a short timeframe to learn the theoretical background of broad pen writing, basic strokes and writing principles, and to create an original piece.

Spring calligraphy courses at the National School of Calligraphy

Spring calligraphy courses at the National School of Calligraphy
Spring is almost here, and new calligraphy courses are, too! It’s the right moment to enroll and fill the spring months with the beauty of letters.

Calligraphy and Music about Love workshop on February 12

Calligraphy and Music about Love workshop on February 12
We are excited to invite you to the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy on February 12 where we will talk and write about love! Calligraphy as the art of fine writing depicts the nature of time in a graphic fashion, with its own perception and style. You can hardly confuse austere and ornamental Blackletter with airy and elegant Copperplate. But there is one feeling that unites any writing style, which is love. Different history periods used to see people discover new facets of love.

New Year greeting card from our young calligraphers

New Year greeting card from our young calligraphers
Last Saturday, December 24th, was this year’s final class of the children's calligraphy course. The class, unsurprisingly, was dedicated to the coming holidays: the students were to create New Year greeting cards. The teacher’s idea was that doing this, they should apply all the skills they have gained over the three months of studying pointed pen calligraphy. The kids were to create a greeting composition combining text and decorative elements, using pointed pen only

Creating inspiration for the New Year

Creating inspiration for the New Year
Last Sunday, December 25th, the Brushes and Brush Pen Calligraphy workshop was held at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy. The workshop was presented by Darina Biryulina, a young calligrapher, designer and graphic artist from Saint Petersburg. Darina shared her views on why calligraphy has been getting popular again; explained the difference between calligraphy and lettering; and demonstrated how to work with brushes and brush pen

Calligraphy courses presentation

Calligraphy courses presentation
This Saturday, November 26, at 01.00 pm we will be holding the presentation of the calligraphy courses of the National School of Calligraphy!

Graduation of the autumn calligraphy courses

Graduation of the autumn calligraphy courses
Last week the National School of Calligraphy saw the final classes of the Basic, Pointed pen and Lettering courses.

Calligraphy courses presentation

Calligraphy courses presentation
Dear friends! On Saturday, November 26, at 01.00 pm we invite you to a presentation of the calligraphy courses of the National School of Calligraphy!

Illumination workshop

Illumination workshop
On Sunday, October 30, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy saw the illumination workshop by Norwegian calligraphy artist Bas Vlam.

Test of the quill

Test of the quill
Saturday, October 29, our young calligraphy students had a chance to time-travel: guided by the teacher Artyom Lebedev they tried to write with a real quill.