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   Based on the Cabinet of Ministers March 12, 2020 order No. 103 “On the declaration of a state of emergency” and taking into account the Culture and Creative Industry Education Division of the Latvian National Culture Center instructions of April 17, 2020 “On the study process in vocational cultural education institutions implementing vocational guidance programs at the end of the 2019/2020 academic year”, the following work plan is SCHEDULED concluding the 2019/2020 school year and performing all specified health and safety measures:

1. Schedule for submitting the students’ homework done in distance learning at school:

On May 18, works will be submitted by 1st grade from 10.00 to 10.30;
2nd grade from 10.30-11.00;
3rd grade from 11.00 to 11.30;

On May 19, works will be submitted by 4th grade from 10.00 to 10.30;
5th grade from 10.30 to 11.00;

On May 20, works will be submitted by 6th grade from 10.00 to 10.30;
7th grade from 10.30 to 11.00;

On May 20, 7th grade submits school graduation works and presentations (PowerPoint format sent to e-mail - [email protected]) until 16.00;

Information for the parents (guardians) of the learner: if, in exceptional cases, it is not possible to submit the works within the specified time, please contact the school administration by phone 64322433 or 29177702;

The conditions for submission of works may be changed, based on possible changes from May 13, 2020, taking into account the decisions made by the Government of the Republic of Latvia and the instructions of the Culture and Creative Industry Education Department of the Latvian National Cultural Center.

2. Evaluation times of the 2nd-semester study work for the students:
● For 1st grade and 6th grade on May 21 at 10.00;
● For 2nd grade and 5th grade on May 22 at 10.00;
● 7th grade on May 25 at 10.00;
● 3rd grade on May 26 at 10.00;
● 4th grade on May 27 at 10.00.

3. The final assessments (semester, year) of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th grade students shall be posted, taking into account the sum of the assessments of the 2019/2020 academic year.

4. Until May 12, 2020, examination papers for 7th grade students in the subjects Basics of Art Language, Composition, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture are abolished until possible changes in legislation and methodological instructions from 13 May 2020.

5. Those 7th grade students who have not submitted their final works in Material in time by March 13, 2020 (according to the calendar plan of the 2nd semester of the 2019/2020 academic year) shall perform the final work remotely, consulting with the teacher in charge of their final work, and submit it on May 20 until 16.00

6. Summer practice (plein air) for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade students is planned from 17 to 21 August. Time can be changed, according to possible changes in legislation and methodological instructions from 2020 13 in May.

7. Starting from May 13, 2020, the educational process at the school shall be continued in compliance with the decisions adopted by the Government of the Republic of Latvia, the instructions of the Culture and Creative Industry Education Department of the Latvian National Culture Center and ensuring the safety and health of students.

Wishing everyone good health, creative joy and success at the end of the 2019/2020 school year,
school director Ojārs VĒLIŅŠ

    From March 23, we start the learning process remotely. During the holiday week, teachers have been working on the methodology of the learning tasks so that they can teach them remotely. Assignments will be sent no more than once a week to the student or their parents emails. The e-mails and telephone numbers of the subject teachers are indicated on the task sheets - for mutual communication between the learners and the subject teachers, for maintaining feedback.

     Let us be mutually understanding and responsible for the tasks to be performed in order to implement the curriculum remotely in this difficult time.
Let's plan our daily workload and responsibilities thoughtfully, take care of ourselves and our loved ones!

Teachers of Aluksne Art School

           According to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers on declaring a state of emergency in the country from March 13 to April 14, the full-time study process at Alūksne Art School is temporarily suspended starting from March 13. Please follow the current information!

          Official information on the epidemiological situation in the country can be found on the website of the Center for Disease Prevention and Control https://spkc.gov.lv/lv/aktualitates/get/nid/757

Alūksne Art School in cooperation with Riga School of Design and Art.

     This year October 18th Aluksne Art School teachers together with 3rd-7th grade students went on an educational field trip to visit topical art exhibitions in Riga. In order for the exhibition attendance to be memorable, to enable learners to reflect more deeply on what they saw, and to delve deeper into its content and form, each student had to analyze their impressions and provide answers to the questions formulated by the educators in the worksheets.
     First of all, in Riga, we visited the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, where in the creative workshop we explored the stage image created by the stage designer Andris Freibergs for the opera "Iemūrētie" at the exhibition "136 pakāpieni". The exhibition title symbolically contained the artist's own 80 years of life and 56 steps we had to walk to get to the exhibit. To reflect the theme, Freibergs moderated the language of the exhibition at the same time as a stage designer and director, enabling the viewer to enter the artist's living space through symbolic steps of life, perceiving its presence with unconventional feelings.
      At the Art Museum Riga Bourse, we visited the exhibition "Metaphysics of Light" dedicated to the creative work of the outstanding Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky. This exhibition brought to light works of art in which lighting and light are a key component of the composition and combines a single dominant theme - variations in lighting, reproducing the artist's elaborate mastery of painting on canvas, such as water, light and space, enchanting the viewer.
In an unconventional view of the world, we were introduced by the artists Mastiņa-Pēterkopa and Rolands Pēterkops, or duet "Mareunrol's" in the exhibition ‘’Augmented Reality’’ at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. In Latvia, the duo of artists “Mareunrol’s” is mainly known as artists who have modeled costumes for many theater and opera performances. Though the works of this exhibition allow the viewer to look at the authors' message in a much wider perspective. The artist duo Mareunrol's have interpreted the idea of the exhibition as follows: “Fashion is like information contained in codes; they need to be able to read them, building new ones from existing codes to move on, because that is the only possible way to develop, creating the collective subconscious as a driving force for development. ”
       As part of our trip, at the Daugava Art Gallery, we visited a sculptural exhibition entitled "Zvērīgā spēle," by sculptor Aigars Bikše, in which the artist personally expresses his feelings in Japan at a time of political conflict between North Korea and the United States and when air defense missile equipment was stationed on the streets of Tokyo for security purposes. "Surikats uz mīnas", "Zaķis ar granātu ķepā" and other sculptural works symbolically visualize military armament as a deliberately cultivated "monstrous reality game" played out on our planet from time to time. It was a valuable experience for us all to understand the language of sculpture, making us think of a topic so important to PEACE and LIFE!