The State Hermitage Museum: Children and Education

This project includes master classes and creative exhibitions (1 day, 1 hall, 1 piece) with famous artists, meetings with the curators of international art project, round tables on timely issues in contemporary art, lecture series on cotemporary art, discussions and seminars. Representatives of the specialized departments of Saint Petersburg's higher educational institutions (the department of Museum Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University, the State Russian Herzen Pedagogical University, the I.E. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the Stieglitz Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy, and more) are participating in this program.

1. POTENTIAL. ART IN PROGRESS
March-May 2012
A series of master classes and interactive classes with leading Petersburg artists.
This project is intended for students, young artists, and those interested members of the public.
The so-called "open studio" concept is widely known, and is applied successfully around the world, in leading museums and institutions of higher learning, galleries, cultural centres, etc.
During the Potential Project, the Youth Centre facility in the General Staff Building will be transformed into a creative laboratory for the visiting artists.
Over a week, the artist will familiarize the public with the process of conceiving and creating a work of art and draw viewers into the creative process.
The opportunity to actively participate in the project, consisting of interactive programs, will be available not only to students, but to parents and children as well.

Participants

Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium), Aranaud Jacobs (Belgium), Anna Frants (USA-Russia), Koen Theys (Belgium), Archive of Letters about Time from Leah Stuhltrager (USA-Germany)
International Multimedia Project TIME KEEPER
May 29 - June 3, 2012

Implacable and indiscriminating, Time is a momentum. It makes a human being understand and aspire to be understood, drives one to create something more meaningful than oneself, and defines one's purpose.
Works exhibited at this show are far from the topic of the day and up-to-the-minute reactions to the current events, but today, when History made its demands on each of us yet again, thoughts on Time are pressing more than ever.

Past:

1. Marina Koldobskaya - painting
"Hunting and Gathering"
February 21-26, 2012

This project is intended for students, young artists, and everyone interested.
The "open studio" concept is widely known and has been successfully applied all over the world in major museums, institutions of higher learning institutions specializing in art, galleries and cultural centers. During the course of this project, the facilities of the Youth Center will be transformed into an open studio, where the artist will create a piece in cooperation with the audience (students, volunteers, children) who will become active participants in the creative process.

2. Pyotr Shvetsov - painting
Workshop is put off for unknown period due to the artist's illness.

3. Dmitry Kaminker and the Kolomyagi Group - sculpture
This event has been postponed indefinitely.

4. Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium), Aernoudt Jacobs (Belgium), Anna Frants (USA), Koen Theys (Belgium)
A multimedia project entitled "The Timekeeper"
May 29 - June 3, 2012

2. RETROSPECTIVE. Moments from the history of art in Petersburg
September 2012
An annual program, dedicated to famous representatives of the Leningrad school from the 1950s-1990s. The program includes discussions, presentations of the artists' work, meetings and a commemorative evening gathering.