Jury chose the miniatures

Belgrade, January 12 – In the lobby of the National Bank of Serbia, jury held a meeting today and brought the decision on the best handicrafts within the exhibition “100 women – 100 miniatures”. The exhibition is a part of the project “Employment in rural areas”, funded by the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia, and implemented by Ethno network. The exhibition was also supported by the National Agency for Regional Development and the City of Belgrade. Experts and honorary jury evaluated creations of women from all over Serbia.

Experts jury, consisting of five members – Dusanka Botunjac, Ethno Network designer and a graduate textile painter, Danijelka Radovanovic, representative of Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade and graduated textile painter, Leonora Vekic, representative of the Faculty of Applied Arts - partner at the project, Zlatko Cvetkovic, senior associate for art and Maja Petrovic, docent, brought the decision on the best four miniatures – one in each of four categories: embroidery/gold-thread embroidery/white embroidery, crochet/fillet-lace making, weaving, and felting/pottery. It is interesting that members of the jury completely agreed in their evaluations of handicrafts, so all of their decisions were brought unanimously.

Honorary jury, with its members – Hugh Brooks, representative of the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia, Ana S. Trbovic from the Female government, Branislav Milic, representative of the German organization for international cooperation GIZ Serbia, Vasilije Ljubinkovic, representative of the Government of Serbia, Jadranka Djordjevic from the Tourist organization of Belgrade, Ann Pesic from the Embassy of the Republic of Ireland, Patricia A. Andjelkovic, photographer, Irina Herne, business consultant, and Slobodan Bata Spasojevic, fashion designer, have chosen the best young author (under 30-years-old). Her miniatures are created by technique of fillet-lace making.

The most successful authors of miniatures will