SYMPOSIUMS

Latvia Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre in cooperation with association "Daugavpils Clay Art Centre” organized International Ceramic Art Symposium "LANDescape”, where 20 professional ceramists were invited to collectively create ceramic fire sculpture ensemble as well as to make individual objects of contemporary ceramics, drawing inspiration in Latvian nature and cultural space.

The 2-nd International Art Ceramic Symposium " Baikal-CeraMystica", organised by Creative Association of Ceramic Artists and supported by the Russian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture and the Archives of Irkutsk Regional brunch of All-Russian Public Organisation " Unioin of Artists" was held on Baikal Lake, Olkhon Island.

The International ceramic symposiums were held in a village Ryabovo by Vyatski Art Museum and the Art and Culture Department of the Kirov region in 2009, 2011, 2012. Ceramic artists of Russia, France, Lithuania, Ukraine had constracted a kiln there and made wood firings together.

The International Ceramic Symposium "Red Angel" during the Festival "White Nights in Perm". Seven artists from Russia, Ukrain and Great Britain took part in the symposium and created four ceramic sculptures fired in situ.. 2012 Perm, Russia.

The International Plein-Airs on Ceramics" ART-ZHYZHAL" in Bobruisk have been started from 2003. Professional Belarusian and foreign artists-ceramicists take part in the event. An Exhibition "KRUG OGNYA" in Bobruisk, Mogilev and Minsk is organized as a final result of the Plein-Air and a booklet is published.

The Organizer and Plein-Air Manager is Valery Arcadjevich Koltygin,
the Chairman of Bobruisk City Organization of Belarusian Union of Artists.

"Terra-Cotta on Vilva" is a festival, an art-residency and a ceramic symposium all together. It is held from 2009 year in a northern village of Perm region . The organizers of the project are the Perm Public Fund of Culture "Yuryatin" and administration of Alexandrovsky district in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Perm. I participated in the event in 2009, 2010, 2011.

The First All-Russian Ceramic Symposium was organized in Kungur in 2002 by the non-profit fund of sculptors of Russia "Edinenie" and the ceramic factory "Kungur ceramika" . Six artists from Perm, Saint-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and Nizni Tagil lived and worked together during a month and created sculptures that were e[hibited in Kungur and Perm.