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From its modest beginnings in 1990 with an exchange of two museum curators and a conference on the “restoration of the arts” in St. Petersburg, FAF’s work has grown to include museum exhibitions, architectural restoration projects, exchange programs, and international jewelry competitions. 

Exhibitions

Russian Easter Celebration
An exhibition at the Russian Embassy, curated by Marilyn P. Swezey, of more than thirty Fabergé pieces to celebrate Russian Easter, May 2005.

The Fabergé Menagerie
In 2003-2004, the Fabergé Arts Foundation, in cooperation with the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, toured an exhibition of Fabergé’s carved stone animals. These miniature artistic creations in semiprecious hardstone and precious gems were accompanied by a section of minerals and stones in their cut and uncut forms, along with other Fabergé works. Following the Walters exhibition (February 13, 2003–July 27, 2003), the menagerie traveled to the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art (October 12, 2003–January 4, 2004) and the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum (February 8, 2004–May 2, 2004).

Great Fabergé in the Hermitage
A rotating exhibition organized by the State Hermitage Museum in cooperation with the Fabergé Arts Foundation; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1997–September 2000.

Easter and Old Russia
Exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century porcelain imperial Easter eggs and icons, Russian Embassy, Washington, D.C., April 1998.

Fabergé and Finland: Exquisite Objects
Exhibition of more than one hundred pieces including two Imperial Easter Eggs and jewelry by Alma Pihl, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1996–January 5, 1997.

Russian Easter with Fabergé
Exhibition to celebrate opening of new Russian Embassy; Russian Embassy, Washington, D.C., April 1995.

Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler
An international exhibition from collections in Russia, the United States, and Europe, with exhibits at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, in June 1993; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, September 1993; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, January 1994. An elaborate catalogue was produced.

Conferences and Workshops

New Uses for Old Buildings—A Russian-American Workshop on Historic Preservation
In June 2001, FAF sponsored a three-day workshop in St. Petersburg on the adaptive re-use of historic buildings. The participants included American architects and restoration professionals, some of whom participated in the October 2000 training program for six Russian women architects, along with investors and developers from the United States, Russian professionals and government officials. The workshop was organized with the assistance Peg Breen, president of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, and Roger Lewis of the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, and was co-sponsored by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, FAF, and the Committee on the Inspection and Preservation of Historic Monuments of the St. Petersburg City Administration.

Women in the Arts Business Council Exchange Program
Six dynamic leaders from this organization (founded in 1996 under FAF’s aegis) traveled to the United States for an 18-day exchange with counterparts in Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago, September-October 2000. (see also New Uses for Old Buildings)

Baltimore Invites St. Petersburg: Achieving a Cultural Vision
Russian architects and urban planners journeyed to Baltimore to study how the city restored its harborplace, October 1992.

Events and Other Programs

International Young Jewelers Competition
A biennial competition, first held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1996 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carl Fabergé. The competition was held there in 1998, 2000, and 2002. Since 2000, young designers from the Nordic countries and Estonia have also participated in the event. In June of 2005 the Institute of Design at the Lahti Polytechnic organized and hosted the competition in Lahti, Finland. 2002. Since 2000, young designers from the Nordic countries and Estonia have also participated in the event. In June of 2005 the Institute of Design at the Lahti Polytechnic organized and hosted the competition in Lahti, Finland.

Design and Production of Goodwill Games' Awards and Commemorative Medals
Summer 1994.

Exchange of Fabergé Curators
FAF arranged the first U.S.-Russian curatorial exchange of the post-Soviet era, in which Marina Lopato of the State Hermitage Museum and Anne Odom of the Hillwood Museum of Washington, D.C., participated, 1991.