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- Nikola Tesla

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While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
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Collections Management Certification Program SERBIA 2013 – 2014

Fionn Zarubica & Associates in partnership with The Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade, The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade and The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia

- Fionn Zarubica & Associates u partnerstvu sa Centralnim institutom za konzervaciju u Beogradu (CIK), Ambasadom SAD u Beogradu i Ministarstvom kulture i medija Republike Srbije

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Collections Management Certification Program

October 7, 2013 – November 1, 2013
February 3, 2014 - February 28, 2014
May 5, 2014 – May 30, 2014

Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade

Terazije 26
Belgrade, Serbia

Fall of 2013 will welcome the second year of a professional certification program in the pioneering field of Museum Collections Management.

The program is designed for professionals from Serbia and the region already working in museums and heritage protection institutions, and students who have experience in conservation and museum work or wish to enter this new and important profession.

Lead by Fionn Zarubica, the program provides basic and advanced instruction as well as hands-on training in contemporary collections management techniques. Topics include preventive conservation, state of the art registration methods, secure art handling, packing, storing, transportation, and inventive exhibition planning, mount making, installation and de-installation.

The program is a total of twelve weeks; divided into three separate sessions over the course of a year. Each session addresses different collections issues at incrementally complex levels. Beginning with the core issues on how to care for one’s own collections within an institution (Session I), it progresses to working with objects (Session II) and broader issues dealing with the more public aspects of a collection, such as through exhibitions and loans (Session III). Upon satisfactory completion of the program the participants are awarded a professional certification acknowledging their qualifications to attend to the needs of diverse institutions internationally, to address the unique issues and requirements of a wide variety of objects and environments and implement solutions across a broad spectrum of challenges; to ensure up to date, long-term, user-friendly and cost efficient methods for protecting and preserving Serbia’s treasures.

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Program za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama u Srbiji 2013 – 2014.

„Fionn Zarubica & Associates", u partnerstvu sa Centralnim institutom za konzervaciju u Beogradu (CIK), Ambasadom SAD u Beogradu i Ministarstvom kulture i medija Republike Srbije, trenutno je u procesu prijema prijava za drugu godinu sertifikovanog stručnog programa obuke iz oblasti upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama. Program se odvija u tri sesije i pruža teorijska znanja i praktičnu obuku iz savremenih tehnika vezanih za novi način upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama.

Program vodi Fionn Zarubica, iz Sjedinjenih Američkih Država, stručnjak za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama i glavni partner u firmi „Fionn Zarubica & Associates".

Cilj programa je da obuči muzealce iz Srbije i regiona koji rade u muzejima i koji se staraju o zbirkama - one koji direktno rade sa lokalnim zbirkama - da konstantno utiču na popravljanje stanja svojih zbirki, čineći ih tako dostupnim kako javnosti, tako i naučnim radnicima i pedagozima. Time ovaj program doprinosi naporima da se zaštiti i očuva značajna kulturna baština u Srbiji i podstakne privredni razvoj.

Sesija I baviće se time kako se starati o muzejskim zbirkama u okviru institucije. Biće obrađene različite teme: kako društvo određuje šta je vrednost koju treba očuvati; razlititi aspekti muzejske profesije; diferencijacija vrsta zbirki i muzeja...Baviće se i metodama registracije i najvažnijim konceptima, principima i tehnikama upravljanja zbirkama.

Sesija II baviće se muzejskim predmetima: osnovnim rukovanjem radi osiguranja bezbednosti predmeta, materijalima i tehnikama za smeštaj kulturnih dobara, skladištenjem i muzejskim depoima, kontrolom štetočina, pripremom i premeštanjem predmeta u okviru muzeja, nalaženjem kreativnih rešenja za metode skladištenja korišćenjem lokalnih resursa, povećanjem zbirki, dokumentacijom i označavanjem. Takođe, tokom sesije direktna pažnja će biti usmerena i na upravljanje rizicima, kao i na zaštitu zdravlja i bezbednosti posetilaca i zaposlenih u muzeju.

Sesija III Na osnovu iskustava iz sesija I i II, sesija III će, kroz teoriju i praktičnu obuku, ponuditi napredna rešenja iz oblasti upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama, uključujući dizajn izložbi, pozajmice značajnih kulturnih dobara, kao i muzejske etike, efikasnog korišćenja resursa, najbolje prakse i održivosti. Učesnici će razmatrati kako muzeji mogu da podstaknu i podrže razvoj i stabilnost lokalne zajednice, kroz promociju nacionalne i lokalne kulture, turizma, obrazovanja, školovanja i građanske svesti. Biće reči i o mogućoj samoodrživosti muzeja kroz aktivnosti u zajednici, uz podrške donatora, kao i angažovanja i obuke volontera.

Učesnici programa su muzejski profesionalci iz Srbije i regiona, koji već rade u muzejima i institucijama zaštite kulturne baštine, kao i studenti sa iskustvom u konzervaciji i radu u muzejima ili željom da počnu da se bave tom strukom.

Predavanja će biti održana u prostorijama Centralnog instituta za konzervaciju u Beogradu. Sve informacije o programu se mogu naći onlajn na fionnzarubica.com i cik.org.rs.


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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0