2008 Programs and Events

Vitebsk Art Center Receives Cultural Preservation Award

Charge d’Affaires Jonathan Moore presents the grant certificate to Valentina Kirillova, Director of the Vitebsk Center of Contemporary Art.

On September 17, 2008, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Jonathan Moore presented the Vitebsk Center of Contemporary Art with a $30,000 grant supported by the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation.  An arts school that fostered the talents of such renowned artists as Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall during the 1920s, the building is currently in disrepair. Towards conserving this historical building, an architectural monument of local and international importance, the AFCP grant will cover the installation of new windows, window frames and openings, thereby creating the climate–control conditions for a new museum of contemporary art.