Rechitsa archivists met with young artists as part of the «Archives for School» campaign

On January 21, within the framework of the Republican action «Archives for School», the Zonal State Archive in Rechitsa held a lesson in artistic culture on the basis of the State Educational Institution «Rechitsa Center for Creativity of Children and Youth».

The event was attended by a group of students of the 11th grade of secondary school No. 9 in Rechitsa with an architectural and artistic bias, accompanied by a teacher of fine arts and drawing Larisa Borisovna Volosyuk. On the basis of archival documents, young people got acquainted with the biography and work of the founder of the Rechitsa State Archive – a painter, ceramist and sculptor of world renown Evgeny Shetikhin, who lives in Rechitsa.

The most striking works and interesting facts from the life of the artist were presented at the lesson. For example, about the participation of Yevgeny Eduardovich in international exhibitions and projects, as well as the fact that his paintings are in the collections of such famous people as President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, actor Pierre Richard, the Time Machine and Scorpions groups, violinist Vanessa May.