Greek Artist makes significant donation to ASAMA
Pictured from left to right are former Greek Minister of Sport Joe Valyraki, United States Sports Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich and Academy Sport Artist of the Year 2002 Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki.
Following a recent trip to Greece for International Olympic Committee meetings, Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich has announced that the Academy will receive a significant donation of giclee’s from Greek artist Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki.
The giclees will be featured in the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA), housed on the campus of the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama. ASAMA is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Papatheodorou-Valyraki was born in Athens, Greece. From 1975 to 1980, she studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Technical University of Athens under Professor Yiannis Moralis. She graduated with distinction in 1980. During this time, she obtained her diploma of theoretical studies of the School of Fine Arts of Athens, where she attended courses on fresco and icon painting. In 1981, she was granted a scholarship by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow a post-graduate course entitled Perfezionamento in Storia dell' Arte Medievale e Moderna' at the University of Florence, from which she received her Ph.D. in 1986.
Papatheodorou-Valyraki’s works are exhibited in the National Gallery in Athens, the Olympic Museum of Lausanne, Switzerland, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., the 'Lamborghini Automobili' Museum in Sant Agata Bolgnese in Italy, the UNESCO collection in Paris, the Olympic Museum of Barcelona, and the Ferrari Genesis of Athens.
For more information, please visit http://www.asama.org/awards/SportArtists/Artist2002.asp.
