Students spend summer in Russia
Three Fine Arts students spent their summer taking courses at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Nathan Brown, third-year painting and drawing student, Michael Magnussen, third-year studio art student, and Laurence Vallières, third-year ceramics student, were among ten art students from Concordia University, the Ontario College of Art & Design and York University who attended the Young Artists Program at the Hermitage Museum (pictured below) in St. Petersburg.
The students were selected in university-wide competitions as the most promising young artists in their respective schools. The program offers master art classes and ran from August 8 to 22, 2010.
The Hermitage museum program is designed to broaden young people's artistic horizons and deepen their appreciation of the historic roots of art.
The participating students' time was spent equally between classroom/studio work and drawing and painting in the museums and on the streets and canals of St. Petersburg.
At the end of the two-week period, the works created by the students were placed on exhibit in the Hermitage Museum, a first for contemporary Canadian artists.
