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art school summer practice

john — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:02:55 +0000

For the second year MoKS has hosted the ‘summer practice’ for students from Tartu Art College sculpture department. The aim is to allow students to experiment and gain practical experience in a non-school setting. The weeks activities were guided by John and Evelyn who led a series of exercises that focused on the idea of site-specific environmental art. Using the greater context of Mooste village and its surroundings, the students were also given time to develop their own works. They also had a chance to learn about the practices of other artists who were in the residency at MoKS and to get a historical overview of site-specific art practices from historian Maarin Ektermann. Despite the changing weather conditions, it was a productive week overall and we hope to host another group of creative people next year.

MoKS residency September 2009

MoKS Artist — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:51:13 +0000

From many options this year we took the residency at MoKS(Mooste), Estonia,and we chose the best place to rest, to meet very interesting people and to think about our future creative activities.
MoKS center at Mooste is only 43 km (40 min by bus) from Tartu- the very important Estonian cultural centre with an excellent Art College, galleries and other interesting places. For us it was very easy to connect with all this, because Evelyn and John from MoKS team it made possible and introduced us to local artists and organized for us meetings with them.
We were very glad of our accommodation – having two large rooms and with local grocery and well equipped kitchen made our life pretty comfortable.
Very welcoming MoKS team added lot of good memories to this September residency.

Irena Biechonska and Jerzy Biechonsky