Valeriia

Valeriia Samoilenko - art historian, art manager, junior researcher, and teacher of Ukrainian history. A graduate of the Faculty of History and the master's program in art history of Taras Shevchenko National University. She was a member of the social department of the historical faculty of student government, where she raised funds for firefighters, doctors, orphanages, and the military, organized events, and carried out environmental reform at the university. Founder of the podcast "Art is not hard." She explores the impact of Impressionism on Everyday Life in the XXI century and develops a program to study art for preschool children. She is a member of the ICOM working group about evaluating museums in Ukraine.

2022 - until today: art manager at the art agency "TUASHO."
02.15.2022 - 05.24.2022 - curator of temporary projects at the Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora.
07.01.2020 - 02.01.2022 - project manager at the "EPC-Network" company.
03.2018 - 05.2020 - teacher of the history of Ukraine at the "Cactus" tutoring center.
03.29 - 04.14.2018 – mediator in the “Where to next?” project from the "Isolation" fund.

Practice:

02.2021 - 05.2021 - KNU named after Taras Shevchenko (teaching practice).
03.2019 - art history practice in Austria.
01.2019 - 03.2019 - specialized school No. 16 in Kyiv (teaching practice).
02.2018 - art history internship in Italy.
07.2017 - 08.2017 - State Archive of the Ukrainian Diaspora (archival practice).
07.2016 - 08.2016 - chamber service of the Institute of Archeology (archaeological practice).

Volunteering:

2018 - volunteer at Street-Art galleries in the USA.
2018 - tour guide at the Holodomor Museum.
2017 - 2018 - "School of Heroes" social project.

Publications:

2017 - Shevchenko Spring, article "Problems of creating Museums of National Memory".
2015 - International scientific and practical conference of students, postgraduates and young scientists, article "Actual problems of youth in science".

2019 - 2021 - Taras Shevchenko KNU Master's Educational Program "History of Art"

2015 - 2019 - Taras Shevchenko KNU, bachelor's program in the specialty "History", department "History of Art"

research intern; teacher of general secondary education institution.

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