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Exhibition of the international ex-libris competition "Blessed Teofilis Matulionis 150 years old"

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Event date
2023-06-09 To 2023-06-29

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Blessed Teofilius Matulionis - 150th anniversary of his birth.
Birštonis is honored to call itself the city of the Blessed, because in 1956-1958 The bishop lived here after returning after 10 years of imprisonment in Russia, and ruled the diocese of Kaišiadori.

Exhibition of the international ex-libris competition "Blessed Teofilis Matulionis 150 years old"
The exhibition features 53 bookplates created by one professional graphic artist and students of four art schools aged 13-18.

Kaunas Art Gymnasium, M.Sc. Jolanta Galdikaitė,
Panevėžys V. Mikalauskas Art Gymnasium, teacher Henrik Mazur,
Ukmergė A. Smetona Gymnasium, teacher Jolita Šlepetienė,
Art School of Olsztyn (Poland).

Creators: Sigita Bronickienė, Emilija Kopūstaitė, Evita Sakalauskaitė, Kamilė Pauplytė, Gerda Ašakaitė, Deimantė Kairytė, Fausta Vepšaitė, Urtė Trivokaitė, Liepa Jasevičiūtė, Urtė Tidikytė, Milena Folmer, Urtė Čerkesaitė, Ugnė Bernikovič, Dorotėja Suslavičiūtė, Gabija Atkočiūnaitė and others.

The museum asks the esteemed visitors to choose the winners of the contest by casting their vote for the most liked ex-libris in the exhibition!