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Yelena Khanevskaya

Yelena Khanevskaya was born and raised in Russia.

Since childhood she was greatly interested in art and received her first art training in Children’s Art School in Novomoskovsk, Russia.

After graduating from there and completing high school, Yelena was accepted into Oryol State Pedagogical University where she completed my Masters of Art Education degree. The artistic training in Russia followed academic traditions, and for 5 years she, with other students, was subjected to rigorous studies of drawing, painting, and sculpting techniques, beginning with plaster casts and inanimate objects, and continuing to the study of human skeletal and muscular structure, and culminating with human body. Compositional studies and Art History, as well as introduction to a number of folk art traditions, were also implemented throughout the years of study.

 After graduation, Yelena worked as an artist on silk before moving to United States.

It is here, in United States, that Yelena started to paint and draw professionally. While working on honing her own artistic skills, she also taught children’s and adult group art classes. Yelena continues to offer private and small group instruction to local artists, as well as offering commissions, mainly in portraiture and landscape.

Over the years Yelena participated in a large number of local and regional group and juried art shows, such as Oregon Trail Days Art Show and Sale; as well as museum shows, such as the Western Spirit Art Show in Cheyenne, WY, and Sprit show at MONA, NE. Besides these, Yelena had a number of solo exhibits over the years at West Nebraska Arts Center, Carnegie Arts Center, Norfolk Arts Center, Burkholder Project and others.

Yelena is represented by several art galleries in the Midwest.

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Learn more about Yelena and see her work here:  https://www.yelenakhanevskaya.com/