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Workshops and Symposia
EVENINGS FOR EDUCATORS
The StateWide Art Partnership hosts this program of teacher inservice workshops across the state. Evenings for Educators involve a keynote speaker and breakout workshops based on a central theme. Click Here for the lates schedule of Evenings for Educators workshop dates, times and locations.
SUMMER ART CLASSES
This summer, the Museum offered Art Classes for children ages 10-11. These classes, taught by certified Art Educators, emphasized basic drawing skills and color theory. Although there are no more classes scheduled for this year, the Museum will be offering these classes every summer, and hopes to include more ages and media in future class offerings. Check back regularly for updates.
SOVIET SCHOLARS IN SPRINGVILLE
Russian art collectors, aficionados and interested public met last November 14th at a free symposium hosted by the Springville Museum of Art. Held in conjunction witht eh exhibition Soviet Art in Conflict: The Artist as an Agent of Social Change, this symposium brought together noted scholars from throughout the United States to discuss the dilemmas Russian artists faced during the Communist days of the Soviet Union.
During his keynote address, Dr. Vern G. Swanson, Museum Director, described not only the various stylistic movements of Soviet art, but also the conditions under which artist s produced great works of art. Dr. Swanson debunked many of the myths Westerners may hold in regards to art production in the USSR. Although many have thought that these artists were forced to paint propagandistic works of Lenin or Stalin "with guns to their heads," the reality was that the majority of artists were eager to help in a cause that claimed a utopian future for its society and all people.
Following the keynote address, there was a panel discussion with Jim Dabakis as moderator. Scholars then presented break-out sessions in their various expertise within the field of Soviet Socialist culture. Dr. Mark Konecny form the Institute of Modern Russian Culture in Los Angeles communicated how the visual arts in Russia created a new mythology for the people of the Soviet Union. Dr. Mark Purves of Brigham Young University's Russian department guided a discussion regarding the "pseudo-reality" of Socialist Realist art, as well as how the work was presented as the positive hero in Soviet literature. Director of the the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, Bradford Shinkle IV, co-presented a session with contemporary Russian artist Alexey L. Steele and Dr. Swanson regarding the concerns of building museum and personal art collections.
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