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Monday, September 13, 2010

From Russia with Love

From Russia With Love,
experience and memories that I will never forget... I already miss you Mr. St. Petersburg!

During two weeks from 9 to 22 August 2010 the program Art Semester at the Hermitage organized byìthe museum’s Youth Educational Center and the Hermitage’s Canadian Friends’ Club was held for the students of Canada’s higher education institutions of art.

After the contest arranged by the Hermitage’s Canadian Friends’ Club 10 students arrived to St Petersburg to participate in this educational program. They were offered a specialized course of lectures on the history of art at the Hermitage halls combined with creative classes of visual and applied arts and photography at the workshop of the Youth Center.

In addition, the program Art Semester developed by the center’s employees included excursions devoted to the history of St Petersburg, visits to museums, workshops of modern artists, drawing classes. Students visited the workshop of Alexander Dashevsky, a young, yet internationally renowned St Petersburg artist who told them about his work and ideas regarding the processes existing in the field of modern art in Russia and St Petersburg. During the trip to Kronstadt and the visit to the residence of St Petersburg branch of Cyland modern art center and media art laboratory the students had a meeting with Mikhail Krest, St Petersburg, and Andrew Demirjian, American media artist invited to Russia to participate in the new, fourth CYBERFEST festival of cybernetic art which will be held in St Petersburg in November 2010 and which was preparing its audio/video installations these days.

In the program Art Semester a special place was occupied by a course of practical classes that were held at the Hermitage halls and the Peter and Paul’s fortress. Students made sketches in the museum’s halls of ancient halls, participated in the master class of traditional wood painting that was held for them by Natalia Kruglova, Head of the Art Workshop of the Students’ Club of the Youth Center. Igor Lebedev, Head of the Creative Photography section of the Students’ Club of the Hermitage’s Youth Center, in the course of the master class as a conjuror, demonstrated to the students the capabilities of the simplest chemical materials, a developer and a fixative, for making a photograph without using a photo camera.

The results of art classes of Canadian students who participated in the Art Semester program were summarized in the course of a one-day reporting demonstration of works that was held at the Hermitage’s Youth Center on the last day of the program.

Please visit for more pictures and full article,

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/11/2010/hm11_6_150.html

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show and Sale

Please take a note!
I will be at Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show & Sale!

August 27-29. 2010

Friday, August 27

3:00 pm-7:30 pm Show & Sale

with Dr Sketchy's Toronto alternative figure drawing sessions starting at 4 pm

and the vinyl-infused grooves of DeeJay Kirby throughout the day

Saturday, August 28

11:00 am-7:30 pm Show & Sale

with Dr Sketchy's Toronto alternative figure drawing sessions starting at 4 pm

and the vinyl-infused grooves of DeeJay Kirby throughout the day

Sunday, August 29

11:00 am-5:00 pm Show & Sale

with live painting by Art Fuzion from 12 pm

and a live music performance by Rambunctious at 3 pm

@ Sunnyside Pavilion
1755 Lake Shore Blvd., Toronto

Hermitage Museum Young Artists' Program

Through Hermitage Museum Young Artists' Program, I will have a great opportunity to visit Russia. The program includes museum tutorials, daylong trips outside of the city, visits to contemporary artists' studios, painting, drawing and photography master classes. There are 10 university students from York University, OCAD and I believe another university was Concordian University. Originally, 10 students were nominated from each school (which means there were 30 in total). In my case, nomination was done during the open house student exhibition, which led to another portfolio application with reference letter. I will be leaving on August 8th and coming back on 22nd. I will take lots of pictures and upload as soon as I come back! (my heart pumping...pump...pump...pump)

when thoughts overrun...

Pen and Indian Ink on Rice paper and Japanese paper. Watercolor pencil crayon, watercolor on wood panel. Plus acrylic board. (The picture quality is not that great... I will get another shot as soon as possible :)