Studio #20 Olga LaMont

Olga LaMont
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Olga A. LaMont was born and raised in Russia.  After her High School graduation, she enrolled at Moscow State University where she received a Post Graduate degree in Chemistry. After graduation, Olga worked as a Scientist in a Scientific Research Institution in Moscow.  While Chemistry was her profession, she had been interested in art all of her life. Being very religious, she started to study iconography and Cathedral Frescos in the Sergiev Posad Lavra and Monastery. After five years, her interest had grown to the point that she turned towards the Russian Portraitist School. In the year of 1997, she decided to pursue her interest in Fine Art and enrolled at the world renowned Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry established in 1825, which is one of the oldest Russian schools for the industrial, monumental and decorative art and design.  After moving from Moscow to Houston, Texas, U.S.A., Olga enrolled at the University of Houston; graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Summa Cum Laude.  At the same time she also studied and has become an art historian.