Start Date
Russo-Byzantine Iconography Workshop—Overview
Monday, June 18 – Friday, June 22, 2012
NOTE: Participants should arrive Sunday, June 17th, and depart on Saturday, June 23rd.
Protodeacon Nazari Polataiko will instruct aspiring and experienced iconographers, endeavoring to teach not only craft and technique but also the prayerful attitude required in executing this art. Protodeacon Nazari, along with his wife, Matushka Tatiana, established the Ss. Alipij and Andrew Rublew Icon Studio in 1996. Protodeacon Nazari is a graduate of Kosiv Art School, and Matushka Tatiana is a graduate of the Vyznytcia Art College in Ukraine; additionally, PDn. Nazari has studied under such master iconographers as Archimandrite Zinon of Pskov, and Dmitri Andreyev, of the Prosopon School in New York City. The Polataikos write icons in a Russo-Byzantine style, using egg tempera and gold leaf, and employing traditional materials and techniques.
Protodeacon Nazari and his wife have been writing icons for almost 15 years. Their work can be seen in several churches in Ukraine, and in numerous churches across Canada and the U.S. They can also be found in the private chapels of His All Holiness Bartholomew, Patriarch of Constantinople, Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv, Ukraine, and Metropolitan Wasylij of Winnipeg (of blessed memory).
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