The master class, as every year, was held at the end of May, within the festive events on the occasion of May 24-th. Creative workshops are organized with the support of the National Fund "Culture" under the program "Amateur Art'22", within the framework of the project "Artistic crafts workshops - a field for the expression of inquisitive craftsmen".
The serial master class with students from the Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski" (city of Blagoevgrad) in atelier "Podkrepa", was dedicated to the creation of jewelry and decorative items from authentic cords (provided to us by the cord workshop in Etar), jewelry and accessories of leather, clay objects for decoration using the techniques of furches, plates, sgraffito ceramics and potter's wheel draining.
Training, following the millennial tradition, was learning by doing. Demonstration by the masters, , work in a group and individually - hand in hand with the masters Svetla Dimitrova, Dolya Andreeva, Veselin Andreev, Yagodinka Lazarova and the Mentor of the student group Maria Onteva, a lecturer in fashion design at Southwestern University, introduced the inquisitive young people to the subtleties of artisanal art. Under their expert guidance, the students created modern design products with old techniques from cords, leather, clay...
And this time, together with the students, inquisitive "handymen" joined in.
The master class, as every year, was held at the end of May, within the festive events on the occasion of May 24-th. Creative workshops are organized with the support of the National Fund "Culture" under the program "Amateur Art'22", within the framework of the project "Artistic crafts workshops - a field for the expression of inquisitive craftsmen".
About the organizers:
Debut Support Association is an organization of enthusiastic volunteers who support and encourage the first public appearances of young artists in the fields of arts and crafts, design and applied arts. The association periodically organizes competitions, workshops, exhibitions, reviews - accompanied by media promotions.
"Support for Debut" successfully organized four projects financed under the "Youth in Action" program:
"Faces of Europe in Fashion and Design" in 2009;
"Ethno relay - learn, preserve and pass on" - master workshops for learning through work in Sofia, Lokorsko and Etara in 2010;
"Artistic crafts - a field for the expression of young talents" in Sofia, Lokorsko and a two-day workshop in Chiprovtsi in 2011;
"Youth craft workshops - first skills in entrepreneurship" in Sofia and Lokorsko. Two-day workshop and Round table in Oreshaka in 2013.
The association also successfully implemented three projects financed by the Sofia Capital Program "Culture": "Traditions meet the future in 2019";
"Tradition Meets the Future, Part Two, Episode Two, 2020";
"Creative workshops Support. Future of the Past, year 2021".
The projects aim to acquaint and train young people, mainly students of applied arts, with traditional Bulgarian crafts - embroidery, artistic knitting, pottery, weaving, dyeing with natural dyes, to acquire practical skills for hand-crafting art crafts, such as acquire basic knowledge of art entrepreneurship.
The products we made during the trainings are modern, attractive, made according to old techniques and technologies. The workshops became an object of great public interest.
Within the projects, the Association created two documentaries about artistic crafts - "Traditions meet the Future" and the sequel "Traditions meet the Future - Guardians", as well as a film about the held "Art Fest - Location Lokorsko" and "Summer cinema under the stars". The association established the Experimental Design Laboratory. Creates and maintains the site https://podkrepazadebut.eu.
More than 60 young specialists in applied arts have received practical training through the workshops organized by the "Support for Debut" association.
The association is the recipient of an honorary diploma from the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for introducing young people to traditional cultural heritage and directing them to craft and art entrepreneurship.
"Support for Debut" is a public benefit association. Its Management Board includes: Slava Hinkova (Chairman), Atanas Burzakov, Mihail Hinkov.