DUSHANBE, July 10, 2008, Asia-Plus — A weeklong Summer School for Young Painters, staged by the Arts and Culture Program of the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation-Tajikistan (OSI-AF-T), is going on in the Varzob district.
Participants of the school, which started on July 7 and runs through July 12, include students from the School of Arts in Qurghon Teppa, the capital of the Khatlon province and Dushanbe College of the Arts.
Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Ms. Rukhshona Olimova, PR-specialist, OSI-AF-T, said that the planner had been organized within the framework of an enlarged Master-Class project with participation of painter teachers Murivat Beknazarov, Gahfour Jourayev and Bakhtiyor Odinayev.
The Master-Class project has been implemented in the Khatlon and Sughd provinces during two years and over this period, 75 students from the schools of arts of Kulob and Qurghon Teppa as well as freshmen of the Faculty of the Arts at Khujand State University have been given an opportunity to participate in master-classes conducted by known Tajik painters.
On completion of the planner, an exhibition of works by participants of the summer school will be organized at the Dushanbe College of the Arts, the PR-specialist said.
