Meet-the-artist-event

Meet-the-artist-event with Kaliningrad amber artist Lyudmila Visotskaya takes place in the Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum on 2 June at 17.00. The event will be held within the exhibition "Divine Painting" that presents works of this author.

The artist will make an excursion through the exhibition, tell about her creative career and about techniques of amber processing.

Lyudmila Visotskaya was born on 4 October 1972 in the village of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Oblast, where she finished comprehensive and arts schools. Then Lyudmila studied at the Kaliningrad Work Training Center and Moscow Slavonic Institute. She has been involved in amber treatment since 1991. From 2000 the artist worked at the Kaliningrad Amber Factory, initially in the team for souvenirs making, and since 2003 – in the artists' atelier. Since that time Lyudmila started to participate in artistic exhibitions, she also entered the Creative Union of Russian Artists. From 2004 to 2010 she studied pedagogics and psychology at the I. Kant Russian State University (today – I.Kant BFU). In 2011, she graduated from Kaliningrad Art and Industrial College, Department of Decorative-Applied Art and Folk Crafts. Since 2014 she has been studied at the Department of Industrial Management of the Kaliningrad State Technical University.

Lyudmila Visotskaya is participant, diploma winner and laureate of international, All-Russian and regional exhibitions and contests. She considers the chief artist of Kaliningrad Amber Factory, Honoured Artist of Russia Ernest Lis (1934–2003) to be her teacher.

Admission – by the museum entry ticket.