CALLIGRAPHY -- ILLUMINATION -- HERALDIC DESIGN The First School of European Calligraphy in Japan since 1997 |
Member of the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
1988 |
Award of the Foreign Minister of Japan |
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1991 | International Book of Honor Award | |
1992 | 20th Anniversary Award of the International Calligraphers Association | |
1993 | Dedication to the Teaching of Calligraphy Award | |
1998 | Commemoration Award of the International Calligraphers Association | |
1999 | The publication of "How to Master the Chancery Hand" was honored at a presentation party and exhibit sponsored by UNESCO, in Paris. | |
2001 | Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Contribution by the Friends
of Calligraphy San Francisco proclamation by the City and County of San Francisco: November 3, 2001 as Muriel Gaggini Day |
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2002 | Certificate of recognition from the International Calligraphers Association | |
2004 | Certificate of recognition from the International Calligraphers Association | |
2010 | Certificates of Appreciation from the Embassy of Turkey in Japan and the Embassy of Japan in Turkey - For Contribution to "2010 Japan Year in Turkey" |
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Certificate of Appreciation: Organizing Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Outstanding contribution to "2010 Japan Year in Turkey" | ||
2014 | Diploma Award from the International Calligraphers Association for continuing support of their activities | |
2016 | Certificate of Appreciation - Embassy of Japan, Switzerland - Swiss Culture by Japanese Western Calligraphers | |
2017 | Certificate of Appreciation - Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo - Three collections of Spanish calligraphies | |
2022 | Certificate of Appreciation by the Nagasaki Working Committee: collection to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by Magellan and Elcano | |
MURIEL GAGGINI- School President
MURIEL GAGGINI(French-Swiss)graduated in 1983 from the professional course
of Western Calligraphy at the New School for Social Research in New York.
She taught traditional calligraphy in Japan for ten years at the YMCA College
of English, and was a pioneer in introducing this art to the Japanese people.
To complement the research she had done in the libraries of Europe and the
USA, she became a reader at the Department of Manuscripts of the National
Library in France and the Mazarine Library in Paris from 1995 to 1997. She is registered as a Heraldic designer at the Societe Internationale d'Heraldique in Geneva. Various
educational institutions in Europe, Asia and in the USA have
invited her to conduct workshops on the art of calligraphy and lecture on
the history of writing and the art of heraldry. Her work has been used in publications and exhibited
in Japan, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Pakistan, Turkey and in the USA. She founded
the MG School of Latin Calligraphy in Tokyo in 1997. |
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TEXT BOOKS
6-month correspondence course available
How to Master the Chancery Hand
Written in English, French and Japanese.
Manual: 113 pages.
Sold with a set of 4 exercise books.
Correspondence course available.The publication of this manual and its exercise books was celebrated by UNESCO in Paris in December of 1999.
How to Master the Gothic Textura Quadrata Hand
PDF manual in English and Japanese with exercise sheets included.
Manual: 113 pages.
Correspondence course available.
POSTERS
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Calligraphy and heraldry posters
1. Alphabet samples : the development of the Latin alphabet from Antiquity to Present
2. A heraldic map of Switzerland: cantons with their flora, fauna and local productions in miniature paintings
3. The origin of tea bags: how a New York tea merchant introduced the tea bag to the local society (in French)
CD
For those who wish to know more about European calligraphy
Language: Japanese - Duration: 50 mn Price: Yen 2,500CONTENTS: The history of calligraphy
A trip spanning five thousand years of history.
The development of the alphabet, the art of writing in Europe and calligraphy today.Enjoy calligraphy
Enter a world of endless beauty and bring additional pleasure and grace to your life events through the noble art of writing.How to write
Demonstration of all the tools needed to start calligraphy.
Four styles of writing are introduced.
Close-up of pen movements.
THE MG SCHOOL OF LATIN CALLIGRAPHY
Tel : 03-3261-5273 Fax : 03-3261-5277e-mail: info@mg-school.com
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