Indian Students in the City of Masters
The excursion to the institute was organized by Olga Sherekhova, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Russian as a Foreign Language for Medical Specialties of the Zilber Medical Institute. The students from India visited the creative space of the Department of Technology, Art and Design of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology and were given a tour of the exhibition hall and art workrooms by Yekaterina Staritsyna, a teacher of the Department.
The day before, an exhibition of works by students and teachers of creative areas called 'Inspired by Nature' opened in the Exposition and Education Centre of the Educational Innovation Park. The works presented at the exhibition are the result of the annual plein air, which takes place as part of summer field practice. The visitors were told how students and teachers go on plein air, what places in Karelia artists like, what requirements are set to the works, what materials are used etc. Paintings with Karelian landscapes interested the students from India, as they had just arrived in a new region for them. Now they know what they can visit in Karelia.
The future doctors walked through the City of Masters — they visited the rooms of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and ceramics. They saw how students work and what they learn.
In the sculpture and ceramics workshop, Senior Lecturer Yelena Timofeeva spoke in English about the subjects she teaches at the university. Sculpture of small forms and ceramics are one of the favorite subjects for art students, because there is a wide field for creativity and imagination, but at the same time, these disciplines require diligence and hard work.
The Indian students saw the results of many student projects; they enjoyed the works themselves, the workrooms and the dialogue.
Yekaterina N. Staritsyna,
Lecturer of the Department of Technology, Art and Design
