Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation provided a travel grant to artist Victoria Grigorieva to participate in the FabrianoInAcquarello (Italy), which is the biggest art event in the world of artists watercolorists.
Art meeting lasted from 21th till 24th April 2016, during which 727 artists from 46 countries presented their works to Italian and foreign audience.
Victoria Grigorieva noticed that Ukraine took part in this project for the first time. Exposition of Ukrainian delegation was presented in the Museum of paper production in Fabriano.
Within the event Ukrainian visited following events:
40 exhibitions of over 727 selected artists from 46 countries;
Meetings of artists from different countries to present and share the experience of the country, the activity of its craftsmen;
A lot of free demonstrations with many international artists of watercolor;
An open meeting with the Master for the production of high quality handmade paper Fabriano, Escoda brashes brushes and paints Daniel Smith, Artemiranda and Winsor & Newton;
Presentation of new technical equipment for artists from the best producers;
Free competition with award dedicated to the collective and relational painting;
A series of excursions to museums of Fabriano;
Plenier in Fabriano.
Together with another artist of Ukraine Olga Kharchenko in the framework of travel Victoria Grigorieva wrote a joint picture which will soon be presented in Watercolor Museum in Fabriano (Italy).
«This event gave me a lot of opportunities for development, inspiration, paintings exchange, communication and understanding. New opportunities for presentation and distribution of Ukrainian culture in the world were emerged» - shared the participant of the program «Travel grants for artists» of the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation.
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The Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation provides travel grants for travel costs for Ukrainian artists to exchange artistic experience at the international level and to improve cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign artists. These grants give Ukrainian artists the opportunity to present their achievements around the world.
