THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ART SESSION OF THE INNOPRAKTIKA SCHOOL TO START ON JUNE 24TH IN SAINT-PETERSBURG
This year, the Art Session of the Innopraktika School will take place for the fifth time at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. It will be held from June 24 to July 12 in the Painting and Sculpture areas. And it will be traditionally summarized by a large exhibition of works created by students of the School, to be held in the Italian Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Year after year, the Art Session has become a platform for creative self expression for dozens of students from all over the world. This year the interest in the project was particularly high, the geography of the countries and the total number of applicants increased. A total of 189 applications from 26 countries were received by the Expert Council headed by Semyon Mikhailovsky, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Following all stages of the selection process, 16 young foreign creative artists from nine countries, including Vietnam, India, Uganda, Senegal, Namibia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, were invited to participate.
For the first time this year, participants from the Republic of Abkhazia will join the classes. And for the second time, within the Innopraktika School, young students of the Lugansk State Academy of Culture and Arts named after Mikhail Matusovsky will have an opportunity to improve their skills. Such an approach, when representatives of different cultures come together in one space, enables creators to actively exchange ideas, energize each other and inspire each other to create pieces of art, revealing their experience and creative potential.
"As the history of the previous 11 sessions of the Innopraktika School shows, young people of creative professions from all over the world get a unique opportunity not only to gain expertise from the best Russian masters of arts, but also to find friends, and like-minded people all over the world. A year ago, students of the Lugansk Academy of Culture and Arts named after M.L. Matusovsky joined the Session, and despite the language barrier, the young artists became friends with their colleagues very quickly, because the language of art is universal. This year we invited students from Abkhazia, we hope that it will be an interesting and bright experience of cultural exchange and search for universal human values among representatives of different national cultures," - Natalia Popova, First Deputy Director General of Innopraktika, said
For almost three weeks, the participants of the School's Art Session will be assisted by teachers of the Academy of Fine Arts to discover their creative potential: Ilya Zorkin, Artem Tikhonov, Mikhail Tishakov, Mikhail Molyakov and Vladimir Brodarskiy. Students will be introduced to the academic artistic tradition and will be exposed to classes in anatomical drawing and plastic anatomy, master classes, and field trips. Everyone will have to create their own unique and special artwork reflecting the subject of the Session: "Creativity unites". All works will form part of the final exhibition, which will be displayed in the Italian Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Specialists of Innopraktika under the guidance of Andrey Podolsky, Doctor of Psychology, will help you to navigate in the Russian Code space, to find the values inherent to other national cultures in the traditions of Russian culture, to comprehend your place in arts, to get new momentum for creative inspiration, professional development and personal growth.
In addition to academic classes, students will enjoy an extensive cultural program with visits to the Hermitage, Russian Museum, Mariinsky Theatre, Tsarskoye Selo Palace, and other places of interest in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
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