BERKELEY — Given her family history, Salma Arastu may be one of the last people you’d expect to be helping to modernize Islamic calligraphy. Her Hindu parents fled their home in Pakistan, resettling ...

What can you make in fifteen seconds? You can’t knit a hat or sew a dress. You can’t cook a meal or bake a cake. You can’t 3-D print a thingamabob or build your IKEA hack. But you can write a word.

A young boy's impressive calligraphy skills, replicating famous show titles with perfect strokes, have captivated social media. This viral talent highlights the artistry of calligraphy, a skill ...

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A Norwin instructional aide who has mastered the art of calligraphy — an elegant handwriting style practiced centuries ago in China, Greece, Rome and Egypt — is sharing her expertise with today’s ...

Sixty-five-year-old Narayana Bhattithiri is gentle and very soft spoken. But there is nothing gentle about his love for calligraphy. For him, that is an all-consuming passion. A Jikji Prize winner for ...