Our final dispatch from Russia comes from Sarah Hall MFA 2017. It was an honor to be chosen for the Russia Residency and after being here for almost a month I am even more grateful for the opportunity. We have gone to many tourist destinations in Moscow and St. Petersburg that have blown us away in both the art and… Read More
Our third dispatch from Russia is from Alex Merritt MFA 2017, who describes his week-long experience painting a street mural in St. Petersburg. My time in Russia has been an experience which is hard to find words for. These two cities are filled with a long history that is amazing, beautiful, and tragic all at the same time. Some moments… Read More
Our second dispatch from Russia comes from Anders Fernbach MFA 2017 Our adventure began on July 16th at JFK International Airport. We met at gate 7 set to depart for Moscow, Russia at 2:20 pm (NY time). We would arrive in Moscow at 6am local time. Upon boarding the plane, there was a clear shift from what we were… Read More
Our first dispatch from Russia comes from Allison Hill-Edgar MFA 2017 The icons. The light. The people. The food. The architecture. The history. I find that every day I have a new obsession. Today it is the sound of the canal and the cool light on the pink and ochre buildings just outside our window; Monday it was the bursting… Read More
By Matthew White (MFA 2016) Russian Academy of Art Known variously as the: Russian, Imperial, St. Petersburg, and Ilya Repin, Academy of the Arts, this school is the oldest and largest of its kind in Russia. The massive building it is housed in consists of three floors of long corridors that wrap around a central courtyard, and literally hundreds of… Read More
By Magaly Vega-Lopez (MFA 2016) Today I write a story, without much to say, like a room full of forgotten memories: an irrelevant story, the kind that doesn’t stay for long time. A static story, where the dust keeps accumulating and the insects fly with apathy. I start this story, on a rainy summer day, that type of rain that… Read More
By Lowell Poisson (MFA 2016) Urban exploring is always a freeing experience, a new place with mystery and questions and excitement. The abandoned escalator was what the group needed, a break from museums and cathedrals and large throngs of zombified tourists. Climbing over broken concrete and fractured steel is always a rush, maneuvering through piles of broken glass and getting… Read More
By, Matthew White (MFA 2016) Our time here in Moscow has been quite a trip! It seems only a couple weeks ago that we arrived in this mysteriously orthodox city. Our days have been filled with plenty of sight-seeing. Stunning architecture, such as the “onion domed” churches, seems to lie around every corner. And centuries old palaces like the one… Read More
By Gabriel Zea (MFA 2015)“Russian people are altogether spacious people, just like their land, and extremely inclined to the fantastic and disorderly” – from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. It’s a bit difficult to grasp how so much has been given to us for this residency. I’m in awe of the opportunity organized by the incredibly generous and well-connected Nikolay Koshelev… Read More
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