RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Summer Session in Russia

[Katerina P. King]

I am posting this for Susan Scotto at Mount Holyoke College (sscotto at mtholyoke.edu):

Dear Colleagues, friends and students!
 
I'm writing to you to send you an advertisement for a program being organized and run by a Russian art historian friend of mine at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Elena Varshavskaya.  Together with a RISD artist and a colleague at the Hermitage in Petersburg, Elena has put together a 6-week summer program which will combine art history study and studio work, as well as tourist stuff in Petersburg and the surrounding areas.  The program will be entirely in English, and housing will be in a dormitory in the central city, and the program is open to absolutely anyone: students, faculty, non-college-affiliated adults.  THe Hermitage end is being organized jointly by Elena and Marina Kozlovskaya, who is a senior researcher at the Hermitage.  She is the woman who ran the Moscow study group's Hermitage program last year, and she is absolutely stupendous!  (Ask any of the students, and they will tell you what a marvelous day we had with her.)  I've seen the curriculum for the program,
 and it looks marvelous.
 
Elena has asked me to publicize the program, because at present, there is only one person signed up.  So, if you're interested in spending six weeks in Petersburg this summer, please check out the attachment, which gives you lots of info, as well as a website address for more details.  (The cost is $4100 +airfare and visa). Then you could feel free to contact Elena at the e-mail address listed. I'd also like to ask those of you who teach to please pass this info along to your students.
 
Thanks very much!

Susan



RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN INVITES YOU TO SUMMER 2004 SESSION
Monday, June 7Friday, July 16
Study Art History and Painting
at the Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg, Russia
Hosted by such an extraordinary museum, this program is able
to offer an extensive theoretical and practical introduction to the
arts in Russia. A chronologically arranged art history course
explores systematically and in depth the prominent
achievements of Russian art  from the Scythian gold artifacts
of the pre-Slavic period to Orthodox icon painting and the great
Russian artistic experiment of the early 20th century. Visits to
numerous city museums are complemented by field trips to
Novgorod, one of the main centers of Old Russia, as well as to
the famous imperial summer residences around St. Petersburg.
v 6-Week Summer Session
v 2 Courses / 6 Credits
v Art History and Painting
v RISD Faculty and Experienced Local Instructors
v Studios in Historical General Staff Building
v Lodging in the Historical City Center
v White Nights Amidst Canals and Palaces
Cost of the Session is $4,100.00
Tuition, housing, meals, excursions, museum visits and local
transportation included but not airfare.
For information please contact coordinator Elena Varshavskya, tel: (860) 
440-3197,
e-mail evarshav at risd.edu
Also visit the web sites: http://www.risd.edu/summerstu_travel.cfm
http://faculty.risd.edu/faculty/evarshav

-- 
Katerina P. King, Ph.D.
Assistant Director For Fellowships and Scholarships
Career Development Center
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-1456
Tel. (413)538-2080  Fax. (413)538-2081  


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