The XIXth International Ceramics Symposium starts in Panevėžys
7 artists will take place in the symposium: R. Aleliūnas(Lithuania), T. Bereza(Ukraine), G. Carrasco (Mexico), I. Ito (Japan), V. Pukevičius (Lithuania), M. Puszynski (Poland), S. Sorinsky (Russia). For five weeks the artists will make their works at the company MIDENĖ. They are proposed to create works for interior and exterior.
On July 25th the conference THE TENDENCIES OF CERAMIC ART will take place in the Art Gallery. The participants and the guests of the symposium will read the papers illustrated by video material. When the works are in the oven, the participants will get acquainted with Lithuania, its history and culture. On August 3rd the exhibition of the works of the artists in the Art Gallery and its inner yard will end up the symposium. The aim of the organisers of the symposium is an active international centre of ceramics and the exposition of accumulated ceramic collection.
The Art Gallery has over 600 pieces of ceramic works which were created during International Ceramics Symposia.