Traditional juried exhibition “100 women – 100 miniatu

Traditional juried exhibition “100 women – 100 miniatures”

The third, traditional juried exhibition of Ethno Network handicrafts – “100 women – 100 miniatures”, was held from November 16 to 27, at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade. In cooperation with Privredna banka Beograd, a partner of this year’s exhibition, and with support of the Ethnographic Museum and the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the most successful items of women from all over Serbia were presented. This year competition was was open to all handicraft authors, regardless their membership in the Ethno Network, so the interest was very high, and the jury had a hard task during selection.

Director of Ethnographic Museum Vilma Niskanović, welcomed the audience at the official opening ceremony, and emphasised that she is glad that museum is able to host such an exhibition, but also that this is a continuation of the successful cooperation with Ethno Network. Manager of the Executive Office of Ethno Network, Iva Radic, said that this year’s exhibition consists of handicrafts done by 65 authors from 17 municipalities across Serbia, in techniques of fillet-lace, embroidery, gold-thread embroidery, weaving, pottery and felting wool.

- Ethno Network continues to work on preserving tradition, but also to provide an opportunity for women to get professional recognition for their skills and to make income for themselves and their families. We would like to say thanks to our partners – Ethnographic Museum and the Faculty of Applied Arts, as well as to Privredna banka Beograd and Naxi radio, which helped us with this year’s exhibition and recognized that it is necessary to invest in the culture exactly in a period of crisis. We use this opportunity to appeal once more on institutions and companies to allocate higher budgets for culture and to support stronger Ethno Network and related initiatives for preserving tradition and development of women entrepreneurship – said Iva Radic.

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