Latvia Art School Teachers Association (LASTA) is a public organization. The aim of activity is to take part in the elaboration
and realization of the policy of cultural education in Latvia, as well as to encourage
cooperation of art educators among the EU countries, Latvia and other countries
of the world.
Latvia Art Schools Teachers Association brings together educators as well as
designers and artists of different branches: specialists of publicity and multi-media,
who are invited by art schools for promoting the quality of the educational process.
Latvia Art School Teachers Association takes part in the elaboration and realization
of unified policy of art education in Latvia, popularizes achievements in art
education, explains their significance in society, organizes seminaries for art
teachers of Latvia and other countries, organizes exibitions, competitions and
festivals of students creative work, organizes summer camps for pedagogues and
students, organizes creative workshops and other activities.
LASTA is a member of the International Association of Art Educators INSEA and
collaboration partner of International Children`s Art Fund (ICAF).
LASTA has taken part in collaboration projekts of art and education in Denmark,
Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Finland and Sweden.
Art schools students of Latvia have been promoted to take part in international
art competitions and exibitions.
LASTA has participated and the participants have repeatedly been awarded price
in competitions of creative work in the USA, Japan, China, Taiwan, France, Germany,
Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Poland, the Chech Republic, Greece, Malta, Lithuania
and other countries.
At art schools of Latvia students asquire licensed and accredited proffesional
basic art education programmes Visual Plastic Art and Design. In addition
some art schools realize education programmes of different interesses.
There are 79 accredited professional basic art schools, where art education programmes
are realized. LASTA unites 50 schools.
The educational aim of art schools is to develop a free and creative personality,
to develop the students creative possibilities, as well as to teach abilities
to realize different art and culture projects.
Students learn to express themselves and to understand art language, art terminology,
to understand art genres, styles and creative biographies of artists and the possibility
to pursue professional secondary art education in art design secondary schools.
The programme envisages the teaching of drawing, painting, composition, forming,
art language.
Separate schools offer possibility for additional classes in ceramics, woodwork,
textilies art, metal, leather, glass and other material, in projecting and making
environmental objects, graphics, computer graphic, photo, video and making use
of other media for realizing their creative ideas.
Students asquire visual plastic art programmes parrallel to general education.
The school-year lasts from September till June, in Summer Plain-air camps are organized for 1-2 weeks. The desired age of starting studies is 9-10 years. The course of education lasts for 5-6 years. The pupils graduate schools have higher art as well as pedagogical education. The teachers are being paid by the state. The schools are municipal schools. |