The programme is designed as an inspiring and educational experience, offering participants the opportunity not only to engage in creative activities but also to explore various art forms, ask questions to professional artists, and gain insight into their daily work, creative journeys, and the unique aspects of their professions.

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS:

08.07. | Liena Subatiņa–Brazeviča
“Design Your Own T-Shirt” – a tie-dye workshop introducing the batik dyeing technique.

15.07. | Laura Ikauniece
“When Words and Images Become a Story” – a creative writing masterclass.

22.07. | Māra Gaņģe
“The Museum of Lost Things” – a performative and research-based art workshop.

29.07.| Oto Holgers Ozoliņš
“Form-Making Workshop” – an introduction to sculpture mould-making and casting techniques.

05.08. | Dārta Madara Cielava
“Impasto Oil Painting” – a workshop exploring oil painting techniques.

12.08. | Ilze Krastiņa
“Draw the Summer” – large-format flower and plant painting using acrylic paints.

19.08. | Auce Biele
“Splash Studio: Painting Emotions Through Abstraction” – an abstract painting workshop.

To register, please call +371 20217889 or email liena.subatina@ogresnovads.lv.

Participation Fee: EUR 3.00

When registering, please provide the participant’s name, a parent or guardian’s contact phone number, and the name of the responsible adult.

Seeking new opportunities for creative expression, the batik technique gained popularity and application in Latvia in the 20th century. 60.-80. It was embraced by both professional and amateur artists. The technique’s appeal lies in its broad and diverse decorative possibilities, utilizing hot, cold, or freehand painting techniques, or various combinations thereof.

This is evidenced by the brief, yet artistically brilliant, engagement with this technique by artists such as Rūdolfs Heimrāts, Rita Blumberga, Pēteris Sidars, Diāna Dimza Dimme, and others. Meanwhile, Ērika Iltnere, Georgs Barkāns, Arnis Pumpurs, Jevģēnija Knāviņa, and Vitolds Kucins were artists for whom batik was either the sole or one of the primary techniques in their creative work.

The lecture will provide a brief insight into the work of the aforementioned contemporaries of Ārija Skudra, characterizing the diversity of their thematic, stylistic, and technical approaches.

The lecture will be led by the exhibition curator and art historian Mg. Art. Irēna Bužinska, who this year received the Latvian Art Annual Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her professional work is characterized by an unceasing interest in phenomena of art history that have been forgotten or misunderstood due to political circumstances or changing tastes over time, and an ability to inspire this interest in others. Her research gaze has always been directed towards artists whose originality contrasts with the aesthetic norms of their time or transcends conventional formal boundaries.

The lecture will take place at the Ogre History and Art Museum building at Brīvības iela 36. The event may be filmed and photographed.

Admission to the event is free.

]]> https://ogresmuzejs.lv/en/family-day-event/ Tue, 26 May 2026 13:39:28 +0000 https://ogresmuzejs.lv/?p=7514 FAMILY DAY EVENT

June 6 | 12:00–16:00

On Family Day, we invite you to a warm and creative gathering for spending quality time together! You will have the opportunity to learn simple hat-folding techniques and decorate them using various materials.

There will also be a special activity, “From Heart to Heart. From Family to Family.”

Leave your family’s thoughts and wishes in a small letter — a gentle imprint left in the world, entrusted to another unknown yet equally important family. And by taking with you a message written by someone else, allow yourself to feel how closely we are all connected — through kind words, hopes, and quiet care for one another.

“In July 1940, J. Gucevičs bought two mercury thermometers in Riga, while J. Nemo purchased apple pies at the buffet of the Ogre railway station. The contents of one broken thermometer were poured into one of the pies. The ‘enhanced’ pie was then fed by J. Nemo to V. Jupatins at the Ogre Community Hall, following a ceremonial rally held in honor of a visit by commanders of the occupation army.

J. Gucevičs did not know that ingesting mercury is not lethal. The harm done to V. Jupatins was limited to severe stomach cramps and groaning while lying on a couch in his office.”

📍You can read the full story in the permanent exhibition “The Path to Freedom”

Photograph: Organizers of the parliamentary elections at the Ķegums open-air stage. 1940. Collection of the Ogre History and Art Museum.