Visiting artists discuss artwork at UHCL

Pictured are (standing, from left): UH-Clear Lake President William A. Staples, Clint Willour, L'ubo Stacho, Vojtech Aubrecht and Miro Svolik.

Photographers based in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic have been welcomed to the University of Houston-Clear Lake as a part of the school's featured international art discussion and FotoFest 2012.

The featured art was called "Reconnecting Through Photography: Czech Republic-Slovak Republic." In attendance were: Jana Hojstricova, director of the Photography Department at Bratislava's Academy of Fine Arts; UH-Clear Lake professor of fine arts Sandria Hu; professor of art theory at the Academy of
Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Bohunka Koklesova; William A. Staples, president of UH-Clear Lake; L'ubo Stacho, professor of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic; exhibiting artist and professor of photography at the Institute of Art and Design and the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, Vojtech Aubrecht; and Miro Svolik, director of the Creative Photography Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

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