Asen Kirin, Professor of Art History, was recently featured in an award-winning documentary by CloudCatcher Productions entitled, Georgia Museum of Art Exhibition: "Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects". The documentary was awarded a Silver Medal in the National Telly Awards.

Kirin was featured in the film for his work with the exhibition Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects. Gifts and Prayers opened at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2016 and since then it has been traveling—in 2017 it was in Minneapolis, MN and this year it will go to El Paso, TX.

Melissa K. Jackson, whose production company name is "CloudCatcher Productions", was the principal producer, screenwriter, and director of this documentary. The 2018 Silver Award is the second award the team at CloudCatcher Productions and Kirin has received. In 2015, another documentary titled Two Powerful Women: Collectors of Russian Art received the National Bronze Telly Award. This documentary was made in connection with another exhibition of Kirin’s from 2013: Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796).

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