Winners Picked in International Calligraphy Contest in Stavropol

The “Write Beautifully” 8th International open competition of calligraphic works was held in Stavropol in the memorial estate of the Stavropol artist and teacher Vasily Smirnov.

This year’s topic was “Universal Truths” - wise thoughts and sayings that Vasily Smirnov's students wrote with feathers at handwriting lessons over a hundred years ago. The competition was attended by 282 people from 7 to 87 years old. The overwhelming majority of people wrote with pen and ink. Calligraphic works came from cities and villages of the Stavropol Region, North Ossetia, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Uglich, Barnaul, Usolye-Sibirskiy, Spain and the USA. 73 works were submitted to the competition from in absentia participants. The Museum of the History of Izobilnensky District became an additional platform for the competition.

The best works were selected in eight age nominations in groups “Ballpoint pen”, “Pen and ink”, and in the nominations for professionals - teachers and artists. In the “Professionals” nomination, the work of Yuri Arutsev, the founder and director of the author's school of calligraphy in Yaroslavl, was recognized as the best.

Source: "Stavropolskaya Pravda"

Winners Picked in International Calligraphy Contest in Stavropol