Yuriy Smirnyagin during a training session at the IDEA Center
Kaliningrad
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Thanks to IDEA, Artists from Kaliningrad, Russia, Exhibit in Gdansk, Poland
Success
After completing several IDEA courses, artists Yuriy and Nelly Smirnyagin from Kaliningrad established contacts with art galleries in Poland and France and, as a result, were asked to exhibit in Gdansk, Poland. Their personal art exhibition opened there on November 3, 2009.
Overview
Yuriy and Nelly Smirnyagin are well-known artists in Kaliningrad, but until recently they had no opportunity to exhibit anywhere beyond Russia. Even though an artist’s main tools are paintbrushes and a palette, Yuriy and Nelly have always been curious about computers and the Internet. In the summer 2009 they both decided it was time to expand their computer competence and make use of the unlimited potential of the World Wide Web, and signed up for computer courses at their local IDEA Center. In July 2009 Nelly Smirnyagina completed the Microsoft Unlimited Potential course in Computer Fundamentals, then in September Yuriy took Word Processing Fundamentals, and then they both attended seminars “E-mail” and “Online Search Engines” and became regular visitors and users of the IDEA Center.
Yuriy and Nelly Smirnyagin don‘t have a home computer, which makes them appreciate the various opportunities provided by the IDEA Center all the more. Assisted by the IDEA Center team, they got in touch with several art galleries in Poland and France, took and edited digital photos of their own paintings and e-mailed them to various art galleries abroad. As a result, they were invited to exhibit their work in the Russian Science and Arts Center in Gdansk, Poland. Their personal exhibition titled “A Red Gramophone Against a Seascape” opened in Gdansk on November 3, 2009. For more details please see the Russian Center website. Thus the new skills gained during the training at the IDEA Center enabled the Kaliningrad artists to introduce residents of he Royal Polish City of Gdańsk to their creative work, proving that true art knows no borders or limitations.
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