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20-th anniversary of IRIDA
Greeting of Zurab Ceretely President of the Russian Academy of Fine Art
I am sincerely glad to congratulate women-artists of the creative union “IRIDA” on the occasion of the significant date – 20th anniversary of the foundation of your women’s union. It is a considerable time, when you’ve made a great number of remarkable works of fine art, organized a lot of interesting art projects.
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Greeting of E.F.Lakhova
The Union of Women of Russia heartily congratulates you and all members of “IRIDA” on the occasion of a glorious jubilee of your creative union. Twenty years ago, at dawn of Perestroika time, “IRIDA” became a first women`s creative organization that powerfully claimed its ability to be a defender of rights of women engaged in creative professions.
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Doloris Cogan: To ever higher heights on the wings of Irida...
Iris, the high-winged Greek goddess of the rainbow, inspired IRIDA, the name taken by the Association of Moscow Women Artists when 100 professional women artists first decided to work together in 1989. Now, in 2010 on your 20th Anniversary, it is my pleasure and honor to be invited to come to Russia and celebrate your success.
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The creative “COOKROOM”
The art exhibition of women artists, “ New Manezh” Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow.
A starting point of the Exhibition is an idea to unite and demonstrate two basic principles of a woman-artist, that is: development of a personality in the creative activity and the natural inevitable predestination of a woman to be a keeper of the home hearth.
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Main results for the last 20 years
In the 1980-ies a group of enthusiastic women artists of Moscow envolved in arranging art exhibitions on the occasion of the International Women`s Day – the 8th of March was not taken by surprize when ‘the time of changes” came to Soviet Russia.
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