We would like to start the New Year by showing paintings that we have recently received form Yekaterinburg in Russia.

Paintings created by adolescents are shipped between Norway and Russia for exhibitions and gifts.

Peacepainting Russia just held their second workshop of the year at School 200 in Yekaterinburg. The participants were very eager and created wonderful paintings that will travel around the world on exhibitions.

Peacepainting Russia created a workshop for students at School 200, Yeakaterinburg.

This initiative was created after our original exchange project with Ekaterinburg was canceled due to Covid-19. Now the participants from Norway and Russia send paintings and Christmas presents to each other in the mail. Once each school receives them, they will create exhibitions in their classrooms. Together with other countries, the exchanged paintings will be exhibited in Ekaterinburg in 2021 in cooperation with UNESCO.

In an exchange project, Elena will bring 10-12 young participants from Yekaterinburg to Norway during 2020. This will enable them to have healthy exchanges with young participants in Norway, and participate in painting workshops and exhibitions.

This video is a result from workshops in Naryan Mar’s Humanitarian-Social college of V.P. Vyucheyskogo in October 2016 and 2017.

Peacepainting workshops in The Humanitarian-Social College of V.P.Vyucheyskogo (Naryan-Mar) in October 2016 and Ekaterinburg at school No. 200 in October 2017.

In part two of our project to lift minorities and create friendship across borders, we invited our partners from the Nenets culture in Russia to visit Norway and experience South Sámi culture.

In collaboration with the South Sami school in Hattfjelldal, we created a project to exchange knowledge with the Nenets culture in Russia. Painting, arranging peace workshops and exchanging paintings for exhibitions is a way to get to know each other's lives and which will help promoting a peaceful climate between Norway and Russia.

Sponsored by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat we created a youth exchange to build good relations with our neighbors and expand perspectives across borders. We invited our partners at an agricultural high school in Naryan-Mar, Russia to come to Bindal, Norway.

The project in Verkhnetulomsky and Tuloma was part of a larger three-part Peacepainting project to promote the Skolt Sámi minorities in Russia, Finland and Norway.

Naryan-Mar was Peacepainting’s second contact place in Russia, and cooperation with an agricultural high school in we created a wonderful project sponsored by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat.

To continue our great partnership with School 2010, we travelled back and had new painting workshops with different groups of children from the school.

In cooperation with the Tunisian art organization Éspace des Arts and the Russian Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Peacepainting and Éspace des Arts travelled together to Moscow to hold painting workshops at School 2010.