Museum of Russian Icons Summer 2019 Newsletter MoRI_SUMMER_2019_newsletter web | Page 3

Welcome
Summer Interns!
presentation on my work at the Museum.
Nicole Harry
My interests in Russian history and art
developed during my undergraduate work,
I am very excited to be interning at the
leading me to a degree in history and
Museum of Russian Icons this sum-
Russian studies from Lafayette College. I
mer. My interest in icons began in high
spent a summer learning strategies of art
school as I became fascinated with both
conservation in Florence, Italy, and gained
Russian culture and the philosophy
an appreciation for the cultural importance
of art. As an undergraduate at Boston
of religious art. I am excited to be interning
College majoring in Russian Language
at the Museum of Russian Icons, and to
Summer interns Natasha Zinos. and Nicole Harry. explore my interest in the social significance
and Literature, I am thrilled to be at a
museum where some of my greatest interests converge. My
of art throughout history. My research will focus on the muse-
research will explore instances of Christian iconography
um’s collection of Soviet anti-religious propaganda posters and
and the philosophy of art within works by the Russian
provide a historical and political context for their creation.
author Fyodor Dostoevsky and will conclude with a
Natasha Zinos
ONLY A FEW OPENINGS LEFT!
Six-Day Intensive Icon Painting Workshop with
Prosopon School of Iconology
Monday, August 5 – Saturday, August 10, 8:30am-5:00pm
Members $900, Nonmembers $995. Call 978.598.5000 to register.
Learn to paint icons with renowned
instructor Vladislav Andrejev from the
Prosopon School of Iconology. Working
with Prosopon faculty, participants
will study the techniques of painting
icons, including transferring the image,
applying the gold leaf, and the use of
egg tempera paint. Students will use the
traditional multi-step process to paint
their own icons of Archangel Michael.
Previous students can make special
arrangements with the instructor to
paint another subject for their icon
workshop.
No previous artistic experience is
required.
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membershp online at museumofrussianicons.org/membership.
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