While twenty 02 was on display in St. Petersburg, Kiboko Projects also embarked on another workshop, this time featuring six professional artists who were selected with the assistance of the Russian Union Exhibition Center. The goal of the project was to connect them with American artists. Each of the six artists was interviewed in their studio about her or his profession, life, and family over the course of two days. Whereas the family workshop dug deep into family dynamics this workshop was geared towards building an autobiography of the individual participants as well as documenting their artistic careers. Kiboko Projects is planning a follow-up in October 2003 involving the same participants.

Participating artists told stories about their experiences under Communism and Perestroika compared to their present situation. Some explained how they had had to smuggle work out of Russia during the Soviet era in order to exhibit abroad. Some spoke of the combination of hope and disillusionment they had experienced under Perestroika. Leonid Ptitsyn, an elderly portraitist who learned to paint in spite of having lost both his hands while disarming a mine during the siege of Leningrad, stated how much harder conditions are for artists today: "There is a big difference. During Soviet times we lived much better. We were able to maintain a normal way of living. There were orders from government to paint pictures and we could also participate in exhibitions. These paintings were bought by different museums and the government. Artists lived much better at that time. They just lived normal lives and now we hit rock bottom."