Saldus Art School (Latvian: Saldus mākslas skola) is an art school in Saldus, Latvia founded in 1984. Approximately 130 students from the age of eight to sixteen years old attend the school after their lessons in contemporary school three times a week.
Learning process
Art school is a professionally oriented educational establishment [1]. The seven-year curriculum consists of drawing, painting, sculpture, introduction to the language of art, composition and work with material. Students take part in nature studies - green practice in June every summer. They make their graduation pieces in the last semester of the 7th school year - wall paintings,ceramics, mosaic, paintings on silk, graphics and other artworks in public places.
Staff personnel
Ten teachers work in Saldus Art school: professional painters, artists in ceramics, designers and an architect. Headmistress Vēsma Krūmiņa, teachers Zigrīda Buzoverova, Gunta Kraulere, Merike Armulika, Kristīne Ozola, Ilze Zemīte, Linda Buzoverova, Anna Dobele, Aldis Reicis, Silvija Nārvila (Year 2009).
Projects
The teachers offer different courses and master classes also for adult people during the school year and in summer.
Saldus Art school in cooperation with Council of Saldus town organize a plain air workshop in summer. Children from Latvia and from Saldus twin towns Paide, Mažeikiai and Sergijevo Posad usually take part in this camp.
References
External links
Web page of teacher Ilze Zemīte
