Embroidery workshop with Saša and Marija Bezjak
Embroidery workshop with Saša and Marija Bezjak
Programme on the occasion of the exhibition Pride and Prejudice in National Costume
UGM, Strossmayerjeva 6
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 17:00-19:00
led by: Saša in Marija Bezjak
On the occasion of the exhibition Pride and Prejudice in National Costume, we invite you to a creative embroidery workshop led by the artist Saša Bezjak and her mother Marija.
Participants are asked to bring a napkin or a piece of fabric with an embroidered motif, lace or border. The workshop is designed to encourage a link between past and present handicrafts. In this way, participants will forge an (in)visible connection with ancestors, past embroiderers/seamstresses and perhaps also with a part of their family history. The motif added by each participant will be personal and special, just as the stories hidden in the napkins are special. Saša Bezjak has been making embroideries since 2005, and her mother Marija also helps her to make embroideries.
Saša Bezjak was born in 1971 in Maribor and grew up in Trate in Slovenske Gorice. She graduated in 1999 from the Faculty of Education in Maribor in Art Pedagogy under the supervision of Prof. Darko Golija, and in 2001 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under the mentorship of Prof. Metka Krašovec (practical part: Painting Sculpture) and Prof. Nadja Zgonik (theoretical part: Four Personal Views of Young Maribor Artists). In 2009, she also completed her Master's Degree in Sculpture at the Academy with Prof. Lujo Vodopivec on the theme of Different Dimensions of Reality. Since 2002, she has been working as a self-employed artist accredited by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2013, she was awarded the title of Expert Adviser for the subject area of Special Didactics from the University of Maribor. Her areas of interest are drawing, painting, sculpture, art actions and teaching. She has been organising workshops for young people and adults for over a decade, with exhibitions of works created there. She lives and works in Gornja Radgona.
Price: 15 € / UGM Club members: 10 €
Registration: 02/229 46 93 or blagajna@ugm.si
