Preliminary programme of the International Conference of Artists-Teachers "Contemporary art education for children and youth" (2026)

February 5 (Thursday)

9:30 – 13:00

Open viewing of the exhibition works of the 21st International art contest "In My Homeland" and exhibits of supervisory board members
(Physical education and wellness center, Smolevichi, Phizkulturnaya str., 17а)

Comments of the jury members

Comments of the supervisory board members:

• Tumelia Mikhail, director, animator, artist and screenwriter, Minsk, Belarus
• Zolotukhin Andrey, animation film director, theater artist, Zurich, Switzerland
• Frolova Elena, Specialist of the Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk, Russia
• Kislitsina Yulia, Head of the educational and methodological office, teacher of the Art Department of the Boarding College Art Center for Gifted Children of the North, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
• Mikhailova Elena, Member of the Board of the Tolyatti city branch of the Union of Designers of Russia, Tolyatti, Russia
• Representatives of the PRC High School

Comments of conference participants

Q&A session

16:00 – 18:00

Visit to the Minsk State Art College named after A. Glebov

February 6 (Friday)

(Conference hall of the Prizma business center, Minsk, Partizansky ave., 79, 5th floor, metro station Partizanskaya)

9:30

Registration of Participants

10:00 – 10:15

General information about the contests' results of the project "In My Homeland" in 2026.

10:15 – 11:30

Block 1. The specifics of online exhibitions of art works

• Features of the evaluation of competitive works in a remote format
  Yulia Alexandrovna Bryakina, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Moscow State University of Higher Education named after V.E.Tatlin, Penza, Russia

• The artist's thoughts on form and format
  The speaker is being clarified

• The problem of measure, shape, and scale
  Vygonnaya Anna Albertovna, restorer, artist-teacher, NGO "Belarusian Green Cross", Minsk, Belarus

• Mikhas Sevruk: going beyond the format
  Lisai Yulia Vladimirovna, Leading Researcher at the Department of Foreign Art of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

11:30 – 13:00

Block 2. Art history teaching practices used in contemporary art education

• Interdisciplinary connections in art history lessons
  Natalia Anatolyevna Tsarik, artist, PhD in Art History, teacher at the Children's Art School named after Anikeychika, Borisov, Belarus

• From the experience of working at summer creative venues
  Korolkova Tatiana Borisovna, teacher of the Children's Art School named after Johann Sebastian Bach, member of the Moscow Union of Artists, Baltiysk, Kaliningrad Region, Russia

• The experience of non-traditional art history guided tours
  Karpova Tatiana Yurievna, lecturer at the Minsk State College of Technology and Design, Minsk, Belarus

• Various methods of quality control of the acquisition of knowledge on art history as a form of stimulating interest in the subject
  Ekaterina Drozd, head of the studio of children's art creativity "Art Studio Creative", member of the Union of Artists and Craftsmen, the institution "Belkultur Center", Brest, Belarus

13:00 – 14:00

Break

14:00 – 15:00

• Practice and problems in art history lessons
  Vygonnaya Anna Albertovna, restorer, artist-teacher, NGO "Belarusian Green Cross", Minsk, Belarus

• Art studies in the upbringing and education of a child artist. Role, prospects, problems and solutions
  Kolobova Kseniya Anatolyevna, art critic, teacher of theory and history of art at the Rozanov Children's Art School, head of the Children's Gallery in Apatity, organizer and curator of exhibitions of children's fine art, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, Russia

15:00 – 15:30

Block 3. Discussion of results of the photonomination "My Art School" and 4th Internationa Contest of Photography

• Shevtsov Semyon Vladimirovich, teacher, photographer, chairman of the jury of the photo contest, NGO "Belarusian Green Cross", Minsk, Belarus

15:30 – 17:00

Block 4. Teaching the art of photography in a situation of general availability of photographic technologies

• Photography is an art hidden from view
  Sviridova Olga Alekseevna, photopedagogue, member of the Union of Photographers of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

• From the history of Belarusian photography
  Elena Viktorovna Donbrova, photographer, curator, publicist. Member of the Union of Photographers and the Union of Designers of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

• Photo clubs as a unifying environment. From the history of the National Photography Club "Minsk"
  Pavlov Vladimir Viktorovich, photographer, chairman of the NFC "Minsk", Minsk, Belarus

• Young photography – new approaches and solutions
  Gagauzov Sergey Vladimirovich, artist, photographer, teacher, director of the Vorkuta Children's Art School, member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Union of Photo Artists of Russia, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the Komi Republic, Vorkuta, Russia

• Where do they teach photography lessons
  Lokteva Victoria Vladimirovna, Methodologist for educational work at the Institute of Professional and Amateur Photography in Moscow, Moscow, Russia

• How we try to bring the art of photography back to our children. About some of the features of the creative photo workshop
  Sviridova Olga Alekseevna, Shevtsov Semyon Vladimirovich, members of the Union of Photographers of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

February 7 (Saturday)

(Parish House of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Minsk, 4 Rakovskaya St., Nemiga metro station)

10:00 – 11:30

Block 5. About different approaches to evaluating children's creative work

• About different approaches to evaluating children's creative work
  Stepurko Tatiana Alekseevna, teacher of the Minsk State Art College named after A. K. Glebov, Minsk, Belarus

• From the experience of participating in the jury of republican creative contests
  Klimenko Ivan Demidovich, Associate Professor of the Painting Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, member of the jury of the international competition "Children are friends on the planet" of the National Center for Artistic Creativity of Children and Youth of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

Free microphone and discussion on the topic

11:30 – 12:30

Viewing the award-winning works of the 11th International Cartoon Contest. Discussion of the results.

• Jury members

15.00 – 19.00

Visit to the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus

Venue of the open viewing of exhibition works (February 5): Physical education and wellness center, Smolevichi, Phizkulturnaya str., 17а

Venue of the conference:

1 day (February 6) - Business centre Prizma (Minsk, Partizanski praspekt,79, conference hall),

2 day (February 7) - the parish house of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral (Minsk, Rakovskaya str., 4)

The following persons are invited to participate:

• artists-teachers,
• art historians,
• organisers of children's and youth competitions,
• organisers of exhibitions, and art projects.

To participate in the conference, please, fill in the application until the January 30, 2026

Application form (https://forms.gle/QdAJLGfqZvqzr1cd9)