Irtiqa Bazaz, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), was about 10 when she started learning the art of calligraphy on her own. Years later, the 21-year-old has chosen the art form as ...

A Korean American calligraphy exhibition in Los Angeles has drawn attention for featuring a 70-meter-long handwritten ...

In today’s digital world, many of us don’t get to hold a pen for days. All our fingers do is tap screens and punch keyboards faster than lightning. While the focus on handwriting seems to have shifted ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...

Craftsmen mounted the calligraphy in books, often inside gold borders and alongside elaborate illustrations. This folio dates to the 16th century. Freer/Sackler Gallery A Persian calligraphy that ...

The 41-year-old French man, who also goes by his Vietnamese name Truong Giang, was dressed in traditional attire as he hung his Tet (Lunar New Year) calligraphy. No one else showcasing their art that ...

Wielding huge writing brushes, and scattering sawdust on billboards to make the ink dry faster – Chinese calligrapher Yeung Kai still remembers what it was like making shop signs in the old days. “The ...

As a young boy in Taiwan, Jerry Yang was forced to study calligraphy — writing Chinese characters with a brush. The practice is thought to mold character as well as to reflect it, but Yang found it a ...

Irtiqa Bazaz, in Indian-administered Kashmir, was about 10 when she started learning the art of calligraphy on her own. Years later, the 21-year-old has chosen the art form as a profession. She is ...