After her arrival in Brussels in October 1932 Ivanovsky immediately enrolled at the book illustration and graphic classes of professor Joris Minne at the ISAD La Cambre. During the summer of 1933 she was very occupied with an assignment Minne gave his pupils: an album of 6 pages pochoirs had to be made celebrating the theme Circus. This did not pose much of a problem to Ivanovsky. Already in Kishenev she had frequently made sketches of the travelling circuses coming through Bessarabia. In Kishenev she had studied at the local art school and, inspired by her mother, she became fluent in French. At the suggestion of fellow students from the Kishenev Art School, who had been to Liège and Ghent, she decided to go to Brussels rather than to Paris (Belgium was cheaper) to continue her studies. Having been interned by the Rumanians she had the advantage of a Rumanian passport. Her bright colours and great dynamics impressed the teachers at La Cambre. Through the later director Herman Teirlinck, her professor of scenic design, the pochoirs came into the hands of the Flemish bibliophile association Tyl (named after Tyll Owlglass). They immediately decided to publish the album in late summer 1933, in Ivanovsky’s second year in Brussels.