Student Projects & Adaptations: Children's Art Center - Samara, Russia
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Svetlana R. Pavlova, Elena V. Lazareva , Teachers of Information Technologies

Summary:

This School Program is the result of a yearlong education program beginning in 2005 with discussions amongst the Warhol Museum, Alcoa Foundation, Alcoa Russia and local education representatives in both Samara and Belaya Kalitva. An outline of an education program was developed that focused on using the Museums new online curriculum http://edu.warhol.org as a resource and working with a small number of local schools and teachers to enable deep engagement, as well as on providing these schools with needed technology resources. Subsequently, Warhol Museum staff traveled to Samara and Belaya Kalitva to conduct teacher workshops demonstrating the online curriculum and various technologies and artistic practices. They also visited the schools involved and held student master classes for select students.

Teachers and a group of students from each of the thirteen participating schools worked together to create projects inspired by Warhols art, life and practice. Each school received the gift of a computer, Internet access and other equipment.

Photograph of coin collection and embroidered cloth

Dmitry Pavlov used his coin collection and various backgrounds including photographs of Russian landmarks, military scenes and his mother’s embroidered cloth to create visual works. The symbolic arrangements of coins reveal and conceal elements from each background creating a dialogue between the layers of materials, history and meaning.