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ACTIVITIES
- EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Meštrović Atelier,
Zagreb
- Educational museum programme
The Meštrović Atelier participates in
joint actions of the museums of the city of Zagreb, the
Zagreb County, and the Krapina-Zagorje County, organized
yearly to mark the International Museum Day. The initiative
was originally launched in 1996 by the Museum Documentation
Centre in Zagreb and was carried on by the Museum Pedagogy
Department of the Croatian Museum Association, namely by
its curators and museum pedagogues. The programme of the
action is organized in relation to a set subject and is
implemented synchronically in all museums which choose to
participate in the action. For a month (the last day being
the International Museum Day, 18th May) the participating
institutions are trying to awaken interest among children
and the young, to encourage them to visit museums, and to
familiarize them with museum holdings. Within the set programme,
the Meštrović Atelier hosts various appropriate events pursuing
the designated aim, such as didactic exhibitions, video
screenings, and fine arts workshops.
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 Fine
arts workshops called Shaking Hands with Meštrović,
2002.
Fine arts workshops for children and
the young called Shaking Hands with Meštrović
are periodically organized on the premises of the Meštrović
Atelier in Zagreb. They simultaneously imply the symbolism
of creation and carry the message of friendship. The
aim of those workshops is to enable the participants
to gain certain knowledge and to develop their communication
skills through creative interrelations. The workshop
concept envisages participation of certain institutions
caring for the development and education of special
needs children and adults. Group visits and fine arts
workshops have been organised for the inmates of the
Slava Raškaj Education Centre and the Suvag
Polyclinic, both from Zagreb, as well as for the
clients of the socio-humanitarian association Ozana,
also from Zagreb. The authentic settings and the possibility
to base artistic works on actual models are important
advantages of the Meštrović Atelier for this type of
educational
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- Educational museum action Outfit, 18th April-18th May 2004
A didactic conceptual exhibition entitled Clothes - formative material in Meštrović's works was organized in the Meštrović Atelier. Some of Meštrović's sculptures in the permanent display illustrate various artistic treatments of clothes, from realistic depicting of accessories to stylized draperies and nudes. The action accentuates those sculptures by various means, still keeping them within the context of the permanent display.
Concept author and activities coordinator:
Danica Plazibat
Ivan Meštrović Gallery,
Split
- Educational museum programmes
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On the occasion of the International
Museum Day, on 18th May between 2000 and 2002, the
Meštrović Gallery in Split organized educational museum
projects with pupil and student participants. The
participants came from the 1st Grammar School in Split
(the Heritage-We Care group), the School
of Applied Art and Design in Split,
and the Arts Academy of the University of Split. Members
of the Association of the Blind of the Split-Dalmatia
County and attenders of the Juraj Bonači Centre in
Split also took part in the programme. Fine
arts workshops were organized in view
of the participants’ profiles: there were workshops
for talented secondary-school pupils, for the visually
challenged, for the attenders of the Art Club… The
third-year students of the Arts Academy of the University
of Split made drawings of some Meštrović’s sculptures.
An exhibition of the participants’ works was held
in the reception area of the Gallery and postcards
with motifs of several works exhibited were printed.
Pupils of the Secondary Music School Josip Hatze from
Split gave a concert on the Gallery’s premises on
18th May 2001. The concert was called Musical
Homage to Meštrović.
Within the UNESCO’s project for the
young World Heritage Preservation and Promotion, the
programme for the visually challenged called Touch
and Recognize a Meštrović's Work was
especially designed in cooperation with the professor
Jasenka Splivalo and the Association of the Blind
of the Split-Dalmatia County. In order to make work
with the visually challenged easier, the content of
the Gallery guides in English, Italian, and Croatian
was taped on audiotapes and the pupils of the workshop
Heritage-We Care made, guided by their mentor,
the professor and academically trained graphic artist
Nikola Skokandić, relief prints of five Meštrović’s
drawings from the Gallery holdings and accompanied
them with legends in Braille. The curator Maja Šeparović
gave two lectures on Ivan Meštrović on the premises
of the Association of the Blind.
Concept author and activities coordinator:
Maja Šeparović
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- Educational museum action Outfit, 18th April-18th
May 2004
The event entitled Re/creation took place in the Meštrović Gallery in Split. Students of the College of Fine Arts in Split, led by their head of textile and clothes design - Professor Suzana Budimir, were inspired by Meštrović's sculptural treatment of clothes, which resulted in numerous new creations.
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