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31 October

The hall of the University of Industrial Technology and Design has been transformed into a museum space again. The tenth anniversary international Ƶ project "Creative Autumn" ended with a unique exhibition of masterpieces by teaching artists.

The tenth season of the competition-exhibition brought together 177 participants from Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The project annually contributes to the replenishment of museum collections and the strengthening of cooperation in the field of creative education between the countries.

The mission of the Creative Autumn contest is to increase the demand for university teaching artists over the age of 35, since creative projects often have age restrictions, for obvious reasons, the organizers try to give way to the young. All these meanings were put into the project by its ideologist and creative director, Director of the Costume Design Institute of Ƶ, Head of the Department of Painting and Drawing, Professor Peter Gamayunov.

Gennady Isaev, a painter, senior lecturer at the Department of Painting and Composition at the Ilya Repin Academy of Arts, became the winner of the Grand Prix of the 10th season of Creative Autumn and a cash prize of 100,000 rubles from the University of Industrial Technologies and Design. His competitive work "Portrait of Alexander Fedorov" is dedicated to a fighter, a member of the SVO, who died in 2024.

From year to year, painters, graphic artists, and architects who teach creative disciplines and design in different countries participate in the competition. They present their works in several categories: "watercolor", "batik", "tapestry", "graphics", "gouache/tempera", "ceramics", "composition", "oil, "pastel", "print". In 2023, the nomination "genre painting" was included in the competition program, and last year in 2024 — "fashion".