GRAPHIC WORKSHOP IN SIĆEVO 2024
The International Graphic Workshop in Sićevo officially begins on Monday, June 3, 2024, in the building of the Art Colony, and will last until June 9, 2024.
The following will be staying and working in Sićevo: Jeff Sippel from the United States, Lilya Pavlovic Dear from the French Republic, Jelena Jocić from Belgrade, Nebojša Lazić from Novi Sad, Jasna Gulan Ruzić from Novi Sad, and Slobodan Radojković from Niš.
This is the 22nd gathering of graphic artists in the village of Sićevo in the building of the Art Colony of Sićevo. So far, around 90 artists have worked at the Graphic Workshop, including notable names from the Serbian graphic scene, as well as from Mexico, the USA, Japan, Denmark, Poland, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. In addition to working in the workshop, the artists will have the opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty of the Sićevačka Gorge and visit significant cultural and historical landmarks in Niš and its surroundings. During the Graphic Workshop, the Salon 77 Gallery in the Niš Fortress will host the opening of the exhibition “Meeting Place” by two of the colony’s participants, Jeff Sipel and Nebojša Lazić, on June 4 at 7 p.m. This exhibition will mark the long-standing collaboration between artists from America and Serbia, as well as the cooperation between the two countries for more than three decades.
The exhibition of the resulting works will be presented to the Niš audience next year in the Niš Fortress Exhibition Pavilion.
Biographies of participants of the 22nd convocation of the Sićevo 2024 Graphic Workshop:
Jeff Sippel is an international artist and American graphic designer. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1976 and studied at the Tamarind Institute from 1977 to 1979. After completing his studies at the Tamarind Institute, he received a certificate as a master printer. Later, he received an MFA from the Arizona State Institute. Sippel taught at Druchaus EA Kuensen, worked as a chief printer at Ocean Works LEL and taught at Ohio State University. Sippel currently teaches at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Specializing in waterless lithography, his work is included in many renowned collections, including the Siminsonian Institute. In addition, Sipel’s many exhibitions include lectures in the Soviet Union, Finland, South Africa, Chile, Belgium, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere in the United States. Sipel has exhibited his work in over 200 exhibitions throughout the United States and around the world.
Lilia Pavlovic Dear was born in Topola, Oplenac. She graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. In 1972, as a British Council scholarship holder, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Chelsea College of Art in London, where she remained until 1973. Two years later, at the invitation of the Austrian Ministry of Culture, she participated in the Neu Galerie Johanen museumum art week in Graz. From 1974 to 1977, she worked as a professor at the University of Los Angeles and lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since 1978, she has been living between Paris and Belgrade. Her works are in many private and public collections in Europe, America and China. She has received many significant awards in the country, France, Italy and China for her great contribution to art. She has participated in over 300 collective exhibitions around the world, and has exhibited independently more than fifty times in important galleries around the world. She is included in art dictionaries: Benezit, Paris, Rečnik Akount, Drout Art Market quotations in France. The Niš audience had the opportunity to encounter her works at her solo exhibition that she organized at Salon 77 last year.
Jelena Jocić was born in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphics, in 1997, and received her master’s degree in 2000 and earned her Doctor of Arts degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, in 2017. During her undergraduate studies, she was a recipient of a scholarship from the Republic Foundation for the Scientific and Artistic Development of Youth of Serbia. From 1998 to 2002, she worked at the Department of Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as part of the project for talented individuals. Since 2003, she has been working as a professor of professional studies at the Academy of Technical Professional Studies – Belgrade, Department of Design. So far, she has organized several solo exhibitions and participated in over one hundred and ten collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. She is the winner of several awards in the field of graphic arts. Her works are included in the Purchase of Works of Art of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia (2005, 2014, 2015, 2016,2017). She has been a member of the artistic council and president of the board of directors of the Graphic Collective in Belgrade since 2011, as well as of ULUS since 1998, whose board member she was from 2022-2023.
Nebojša Lazić graduated (1992), received his master’s degree (1996) and doctorate (2015) from the Department of Graphics of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. During two years of specialist studies at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico, USA, he earned the title of associate printer for graphics. He is the recipient of several awards, scholarships and recognitions for his contribution to fine and graphic arts in the country and abroad.