It’s a wonderful start in understanding the world, when children can paint for friends across the sea, and learn about the world and its different people. One thing learned is that we are not so different. For the second year the Los Angeles-St. … [Read more...]
Art Across the Ocean
The Los Angeles-St. Petersburg Sister City Committee again in 2011 has sponsored a Children’s Art Exchange Exhibition between the students of our sister cities. The LA exhibit opened May 12 and will close June 4. About 200 paintings from LA Unified … [Read more...]
St. Petersburg~A Favorite City of Mine
As usual in Russia, it is a place of mixed meaning and effect. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as his “Window on the West” it is still that and for that reason a place at arm’s length from the rest of Russia. And for that reason, one of the most … [Read more...]
What is it about Russian Women?~ Part 3, the “babushkas.”
This is the Part 3 of my weekly series about Russian women. It’s about the babushkas, bless their hearts. The babushka, or grandmother, has a special role in Russian history and life. They are the social conscience, and humorously, the … [Read more...]
Good Sisters Make a Good Family
It is such a pleasure to see the good that is done when people of different cultures respectfully get together. The result is a realization of how much we have in common, not in difference. Harmony and mutual appreciation happen—and we learn so … [Read more...]
FRIENDS ACROSS THE SEA
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of The Los Angeles/St. Petersburg Sister City Committee a children’s art exhibit was sponsored. From several districts of the Los Angeles Unified School District a total of 219 paintings were carried to … [Read more...]
Tolstoy in Long Beach
Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1887 The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy will be celebrated in October of this year, 2010, The Leo N. Tolstoy Centennial Festival will be held at California State University, Long Beach. It may seem a bit strange that a … [Read more...]
Russian Contemporary Art
by Tamara Semenova, St. Petersburg Masha Zeiring and with Muriel Wood, both Directors of our Los Angeles/St. Petersburg Sister City Committee was the team that prepared and took over 200 pieces of art from the Los Angeles Unified School District for … [Read more...]
Children’s Art ~ Friends across the Sea
Art knows no borders. The Los Angeles/St. Petersburg Sister City Committee is sponsoring an exchange of children’s art between LA and St. Petersburg, Russia to celebrate the committee’s 20th anniversary. Recently I was happy to see the exhibit of … [Read more...]