Mészáros Júlia, N.: 35 éves a Győri Művésztelep. Történeti áttekintés, művek, életrajzi adatok, beszámoló a jubileumi találkozóról - Győri művészettörténet 4. (Győr, 2003)
Országos Szimpózium Találkozó, Győr
of information. E.g. the Artists’ Symposium of Tihany wishes to become a place of reception of projects, operating all year, it is also suitable for organizing conferences. It can be linked with foreign partner institutions, which may mean a new function as part of the transformation of universities. A Symposion Academy should be established, which could be accommodated at the University of Fine Arts. It would be important for the institutions teaching fine and applied arts to establish a network because neither the fine nor the applied artists have higher-level relations with each other. No artists are followed, the students leaving the University cannot discuss their problems, difficulties or questions corresponding to their topical interests. The associaition called MERSZ cannot serve this function because it deals with related arts. The master programmes, common work and symposia can be given credit values but institutions of higher education of art must join to do so. This can also be extended by EU partners, and what has been outside university so far can be inside now. Tamás Gaál sketched the history of relation of the Pécs Master School and the Villány/Siklós Symposium of Artists. They were areas of education before the launch of the university training but today the conditions that would secure the training of sculptors here are not available any more. Even though the masterpupil relation used to be realized optimally here. The new programme target of the University was outlined about 1999-2000, as a result of which education moved to a building of the University, the movement of symposia, however, stopped at these two symposia. Although they are necessary for unification of divided education and further training of the students. The change of financial support would constitute a solution. The smmer symposium as work included in the curriculum is worth credit points, which has been adjusted to the international practice but the University cannot take on the financing of the the artists’ symposia. The National Cultural Funds used to give the students a scholarship to participate in the artists’ symposium, now the foreign scholarship programme is supported instead. However, the new idea has only been realized in Austria. Tibor Budahelyi related the operation of an Austrian symposium and his experiences there. This symposium also affords for disabled artists an opportunity to create. He showed the slides of the works made there in 2002 and their background of creation. Katalin Pallag offered the sudents’ participation in the Artists’ Symposium of Nagyatád in summer, primarily to restore sculptures to be found there and to collect experience of restoring sculptures. István Stark, the artistic director of the Széchenyi Foundation offered the Gyermely Symposium of Artists to the new graduates, for creative work during 319
