In the spring of 2021, a new project is launched in cooperation with AREI (Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics), which has inherited centuries-old Latvian plant breeding traditions.
The project is intended as a symbiosis of art and science, where both such creative industries meet and complement each other to create new wonderful works.
Ineta Freidenfelde, Agnese Valiniece, Maija Graudiņa, Dita Lūse, Margita Jumīte and others participate in the project.
With the first rays of the sun, new, bright and creative thoughts begin to appear; plans are shaking and evolving - ... and, therefore, a little about them ...
Together with AREI - the Creative Angel of the Institute of Agro-Resources and Economics - Andris Ūdris, this year we intend to -
In collaboration with leading Latvian breeders and scientists from AREI Institute Creative-Attractive-Mobile-Expansive art performance
- Art for Science -
On an annual basis, we meet directly or remotely with the head of the institute, researchers, authors of scientific works, who will tell us how new plant varieties were formed, with which agricultural crops selected in Latvia are known to our farmers and how they are used in life.
If we are lucky - we will see how flax, hemp, oats, rye, barley, wheat, potatoes and much, much more grow ... How the fields are cultivated and the new crop is harvested.
We will be able to appreciate how much love and work is invested in developing one or another agricultural culture.
But most importantly - we will meet, talk, find out, draw inspiration and strength from each other - artists from scientists and vice versa ... The joy of creation and knowledge is common to both scientists and artists. Scientists will see the creation of art, but artists will participate in the process of the emergence of new lives, the exchange of new knowledge and draw strength in nature.
- until the beginning of September - we meet in Zoom, organize trips to science meccas - in Dižstende, Priekuli, Vilani, Riga - we draw, organize plein airs, paint and create;
- throughout the year the premises of the institute (Riga, Struktoru street 14) are filled with colors, tastes, breaths of works of art, which the artists themselves can change and add at their own discretion so that visitors and guests of the institute have the pleasure and opportunity to buy them (if any) );
- to create a new platform in social networks, called “Art for Science”, where you can regularly share photos, not only of ready-made versions, but also of the process, cooperation, ideas.
- in September - in a collective / creative vote we will select 13 works that will materialize in the AREI 2022 calendar by the end of the year;
- in December - we will offer our friends, colleagues, cooperation partners in Latvia and abroad to participate in the art auction organized by AREI.
- at the end of the year - a party with friends, colleagues and business partners, and a calendar and gift sharing.