Livia Balu is a visual artist, who lives and works in Clarens/Montreux, Switzerland. As an award-winning illustrator, painter, and engraver, she lives and breathes art - her raison d'être since childhood. Her work is prolific and has exhibited all over the world - from Romania to Switzerland, from Austria to France, from South Korea to Spain, and from Italy and China to New York. Livia has a natural talent that cannot be contained. She brings a unique gift of expression, driven by an innate passion and the desire to bring joy to others. As a consummate professional, she continually seeks to expand her learning - not only for her own self-improvement, but also to further inform how her art can help enhance the human condition. As an art therapist and teacher, she brings her expertise as an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner to her classes for children and adults to help them stimulate everyday creative processes. Livia's personal evolution has been a dance of ongoing reflection, progress, and synchronicity. And there is nothing that inspires, motivates, and fuels her more than her profound love for the nature. Livia's work is rich, thought-provoking and sumptuous, touching the soul. She can turn a massive mountain into an intimate friend, and a modest cauliflower into a complex interpretive experience, creating deep connection and pleasure through her colour and form.

Protecting and promoting a “Memory of the World” library The Martin Bodmer (Zurich 1899-Geneva 1971) Foundation was created in 1971 and aims to protect the library left to it by its founder, and make it accessible to the general public. Throughout his life, Martin Bodmer amassed a vast collection of thousands of exceptional pieces (hundreds of papyruses, western and eastern medieval manuscripts, handwritten pages, first editions, rare engravings, and precious illustrations), which bring together the great texts of world litterature and of human history. This Bibliotheca Bodmeriana is considered as one of the best private collections in the world and has been listed as part of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” Programme since 2015. In order to achieve its twin objectives of protecting and promoting the collection. The Foundation has created its own restoration and digitalisation workshops, as well as a museum which houses permanent and temporary exibitions. The Foundation enjoys a unique setting in the hillside of Cologny, with a spectacular view of Lake Geneva and the city of Geneva. It offers a varied programme of public engagement for adults, students, children, families, and schools.

Hors de la qualité des cours, je tenais particulièrement à mentionner l'ambiance de l'école. C'est vraiment génial de pouvoir évoluer dans une structure où la plupart des gens se connaissent, partagent leur expérience, travaillent ensemble de manière soudée contrairement aux grandes écoles publiques.