Tatyana Pavlovna Kalinina

Kalinina Tatyana Pavlovna – a decorative artist, vocational training instructor, stage designer, and a tapestry and decorative painting artist. She was born in Tukums, Latvian SSR. She graduated from the Ivanovo Chemical-Technological College – Department of Artistic Design and Fabric Coloring, specializing as an artist-colorist. She worked as a decorative artist, vocational training instructor, stage designer, and a tapestry and decorative painting artist.

 

Since 1976 she participated in exhibitions and was admitted to the youth association of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1986 she moved to Petrozavodsk. She organized a tapestry workshop and fulfilled commissions for monumental panels (the "White Nights" series, the "Stones" series, "Nature of Karelia", a series of tapestries on maritime themes, "Bitter Berry", "Spring", the "Theatre" series, etc.), and also worked in small-scale textile sculpture ("Cold Sunset", "Gothic", "Forest", "Frozen World", etc.). She worked as an artist at the "Lestnitsa" theater-studio, collaborated with the folk song ensemble "Zoryayne" and with the ensemble "Rus" from Vladimir. In 1990 she joined the Union of Artists of Russia.

Tatyana Kalinina is also widely known as a graphic artist (the "Visible – Invisible" series, the "Sacrificial Stones" series, etc.), a painter, and a sculptor ("Bearer", "Artist", "Angel"). In 1998–1999 she served as stage designer together with director S. Tsurcanu in the production "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" at the Petrozavodsk Puppet Theater. The production became a laureate of the "Onega Mask" award as the best children's performance of the 1998–1999 season. In June 1999 Tatyana Kalinina opened the art gallery "House of the Doll", the heart of which was an exhibition of her original dolls "Kizhi Domovye", and she also created several collections of original dolls made in various techniques ("Gnomes", "Eternal Children", "Grooms and Brides", "Characters of Northern Fairy Tales", "Sunny Village", etc.). For creating the "House of the Doll" she became a laureate of the "Person of the Year" award.