The coordinator and the expert of the International ecological art project "In My Homeland" participated in the seminar for teachers of children's art schools and departments of fine arts of children's art schools "Methodical reflections" which took place in Vladimir on February 27, 2026.

Natalia Sviatkina (project coordinator) and Anna Vygonnaya (expert) received the invitation to the seminar thanks to contacts established during the work of the jury of the 21st International Painting and Graphics Contest "In My Homeland" and partnership with the Union of Teachers-Artists.

During the seminar, Natalia Sviatkina spoke about the goals and objectives of the In My Homeland project, recent events – the jury of three contests, the resulting review and the conference, and plans for methodological events in Gatchina (in the spring) and the GCB center (in the summer). Many participants became interested in future events, and some immediately decided to join them.

Anna Vygonnaya's speech concerned the practice and problems of teaching art history to children. She shared her experience of organizing and conducting studies through an individual practical learning of styles.

Among other topics of the seminar were folk crafts as a means of fostering patriotism, preserving the traditions of art education, networking of organizations as a factor in the formation of educational results of a new quality, author's educational programs, decorative painting in children's art schools, prospects for further cooperation between art teachers and others. About 70 representatives of art education from Vologda, Korolev, Minsk, Murom and Vladimir took part in the XIV Interregional seminar "Methodical Reflections". Among the participants were members of the jury of the In My Homeland contest from different years, and participants in the conference for teachers-artists, which is held within the project. The seminar was held at the Children's Art School No. 6 named after V.A.Soloukhin in Vladimir.