Educating is “in”
The Centre for Folk Art Production started to plan the systematic traditional crafts and productions education for general public in the first half of the 1990s. In Bratislava, the ÚĽUV opened the School of Crafts program including traditional productions courses for all age groups in the summer 1999. The School of Crafts was opened also in the central Slovakia, namely in the town of Banská Bystrica in 2005.
Later on, further incentives had emerged that provoked the expansion of forms of education and addressed more target groups. The ÚĽUV has published textbook-like manuals on production and marketing for small workshops. The organisation has opened crafts and art competitions for children which provoked the activity of teachers and lectures of the museum of folk art production to be the basis for education. All the above have helped to have good conditions for education of makers, teachers at elementary schools, art teachers and crafts lecturers.
How to establish a successful market position, improving legal and economy knowledge, production career and marketing skills and introduction of cooperation with the ÚĽUV requirements are the main topics of the education program for producers.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2011:
- Design by ÚĽUV by Dana Kľučárová
- Ján Sakala - Sculptures emphasized by colour by Martin Mešša
- Educating is “in”
- The ÚĽUV for teachers, teachers for children and youngsters by Zuzana Palicová
- To become familiar with wood... by Monika Wokaunová
- Crafts and movie industry by Nora Čechmánková
- ÚĽUV´s movie documentaries by Nora Čechmánková
- I was born under a ladder... by Stanislav Kytka
- Lace from Skýcov by Alena Rybáriková
- Best toy from wood competition again by Mária Rošková
- Točenô - Michal Hanula by Peter Šugár
- Textile, metal, technologies... by Adriena Pekárová
- Room of curiosities in the Gallery X by Eva Trilecová
- Majolica plastic art - Jitka Petrikovičová by Dana Doricová
- A dream about China that has come true by Gabriela Luptáková