round table
ROUND TABLE
Planning Sessions Schedule: SUBJECT TO CHANGE
All meetings will take place at Smolny College, Galernaya 60, room 323
Day 1, Monday, June 15th General meetings on Arts Education in Russia
10-11:30pm Orientation Meeting
(Norton Batkin, Emily Newman, Philip Fedchin, Ivan Gavarkov, Olesya Turkina, Elena Kolovskaya, Tatiana Bykovskaya, Stanislav Savitsky, Yana Klichuk, Susan Katz, Riika Stewen, Liisa Roberts, Igor Lebedev, Olga Djola, Olga Jitlina, Arseny Sergeev, Muratbek Djumalaev)
10-10:45—short presentations
• Introduction to exisiting programs at Smolny College
* Philip Fedchin and Stanislav Savitsky on Smolny current programs
* Emily Newman and Olesya Turkina on Practicing Arts track and Open Studio/Forumak
• Introduction to arts education in St Petersburg in general
* Elena Kolovskaya, Tatiana Bykovskaya on Proarte
* Ivan Gavarkov on the Academy of Fine Arts named after Repin
10:45- 11:30—Open discussion in response to presentations—What are other resources for art education in the city? What else happens in this city in terms of training for artists? How could the situation be improved? What is the future for these programs?
12-1pm Arts Education Outside of St Petersburg
(Riikka Stewen, Liisa Roberts, Norton Batkin, Emily Newman, Philip Fedchin, Arseny Sergeev, Muratbek Djumalaev, David Riff, Olesya Turkina, Stanislav Savitsky, Susan Katz, Yana Klichuk, Igor Lebedev)
12:00-12:30--Riikka Stewen, Liisa Roberts on arts education in Finland, at KUVA.
12:30-1:00—Muratbek Jumalaev on arts education in Central Asia.
1:00-2:30—LUNCH at the Knyaz Romanov, Labor Square.
2:30-3:30 Cont. Arts Education Outside of St Petersburg
2:30-3:00---David Riff on arts education in Moscow.
3:00-3:30—Arseny Sergeev on arts education in Ekaterinburg.
3:30-4:00--Norton Batkin on arts Education in the USA
4:00-4:30—coffee and tea
4:30-5:30—Open discussion in response to presentations with all participants
5:30-6:30 —Core group--Would a program at Smolny be able to draw on any or all of the topics we discussed during the day? What are some of KUVA's ideas for collaboration with Smolny?
(Norton Batkin, Emily Newman, Philip Fedchin, Liisa Roberts, Riika Stewen, Igor Lebedev, Olesya Turkina, Stas Savitsky, Susan Katz, Yana Klichuk)
8:30 DINNER ON BOAT, MOIKA 59---all Forumak Leto students and session participants invited
Day 2, Tuesday, June 16th What can we offer to St Petersburg artists and what have they been offered in the past?
(David Riff, Susan Katz, Yana Klichuk, Olga Jitlina, Stanislav Savitsky, Gleb Ershov, Olesya Turkina, Igor Lebedev, Elena Kolovskaya, Tatiana Bykovskaya, Liisa Roberts, Piotr Shvetsov, Piotr Belyi, Sergei Bugaev (Afrika), Gennady Zubkov, students of Forumak Leto)
2:30- 3:30—Presentations by Olesya Turkina and Andrei Khlobystin: The training of practicing artists in St Petersburg up to the present day
3:30-4:00—coffee tea
4-5:30—Open Discussion--What do young artists in St Petersburg want and need now?
5:30-6:30 How could we develop the practicing arts component in Smolny curriculm?
(Norton Batkin, Emily Newman, Philip Fedchin, David Riff, Susan Katz, Yana Klichuk, Olga Jitlina, Stanislav Savitsky, Olesya Turkina, Igor Lebedev)
Day 3, Wednesday, June 17th Combining Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies in St Petersburg
11:00-12:30 --How are curators trained in Russia and St Petersburg?
11:00- 12:00--Presentation by Ekaterina Andreeva, on the Role of Museums on Art Education and training for Curators in general in St Petersburg.
12:00- 12:30--Presentation by Norton Batkin on the Center for Curatorial Studies and Curatorial Studies in the USA in general.
