Saturday, July 12th, 2003, ArtofIran.org proudly sponsored a visit for students of Iranian Community School in Vienna, Virginia with Persian calligrapher Sina Goudarzi who resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sina briefly introduced the art of Persian calligraphy and calligraphy tools to two different student age group of the Iranian Community School. Then, each student had the opportunity to experiment these calligraphy tools personally, which was the first time for most of them, under Sina’s supervision.

At the end, Sina wrote each student’s name as a gift and a reminiscent of this day and their heritage background for them to take home.

Promoting Iranian art and culture by providing educational opportunity is one of the main goals of ArtofIran.org, as the only non-profit Iranian art organization in United States. Therefore, sponsoring cultural/art events, especially for Iranian/American children not only meets this goal of ArtofIran.org, also provides Iranian/American children a view of their heritage and background, which is not necessarily offered to them in their daily routine.

ArtofIran.org would like to thank the Iranian Community School’s management for providing this opportunity and hopes continuing to sponsor events with similar magnitude in the near future around the continental US.