Biography of Yavorskaya

Svetlana Yavorskaya was born in a military family in the old Lithuanian city of Panevezis, known for her theatrical traditions. She graduated from the Panevega Art School and Zagorsky Art and Industrial College toys, where the leader of the diploma was a famous scientist, the author of dozens of books on the Russian toy-Galina Lvovna Dain. In the year she graduated from the art history department of the History Faculty of Moscow State University.

Lomonosov, leaders of the diploma - M. Yablonskaya and V. for about ten years worked as an artist in production. He is currently teaching at the Children's Ecological Center of Domodedovo. She always actively collaborated with the Domodedovo historical and art museum, which contains a unique collection of clippings from around the world, collected by Ukrainian scientist Alexei Maksimovich Petrichenko.

The collection has more than five thousand storage units, of which more than a thousand Chinese clippings. He is a member of the Organizational Committee of Symposiums on the Arts of Paper Cutting, which are held in Domodedovo and Moscow since the year; organizer and participant in many exhibitions in Moscow, Sochi, Adler, Pskov, Balashikha, Mytishchi, Tallinn and other cities.

As an art critic explores the history of the tradition of cutting out of paper in Russia and the theory of this art, has more than thirty publications in scientific collections, periodicals and Internet resources. Developed a series of scientific and practical seminars on the art of cutting in Russia and Europe, which are designed for the most different audience-from children to professional artists and scientists.

Each seminar begins with a report on a specific topic, then a master class should be thematically related to the report. In recent years, more than forty seminars and about a hundred master classes have been held, which were visited by thousands of people.

Some seminars are methodological in nature and are designed specifically for teachers and psychologists working with children. The art of cutting is one of the most interesting developing techniques of fine and applied art, which have inexhaustible art therapy resources that have only now begun to open. Features of the psychological impact of paper cutting and the practical use of this technique in art therapy are one of the new topics of the research of the scientist and the artist.

In the year, she repeatedly made reports and seminars at psychological conferences and round tables on art therapy and art prevention. At the same time, as an art critic, Svetlana explores the problems of Russian and Lithuanian Christian art, took part in many conferences held in Russia and abroad.