The works of Ana Naumović and Vera Nikolić, students of master studies and PhD Miljana Radenković, Assist. Prof. at the Department of Applied Arts at the Faculty of Arts in Niš, have been selected for the FLUID – Regional Design Awards for Young Designers 2025 competition for exhibition at international exhibitions in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second public call on the topic Promise me the future!, was announced for the Poster category, by the FLUID Design Forum and the NVU FLUX Cetinje. Young (18 to 35 years old) graphic designers, illustrators, design and architecture students, visual artists, photographers and architects from the region (Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania) were eligible to participate. The jury, consisting of: Mirko Ilić (USA), Borut Wild (RS), Dejan Kršić (CRO), Saša Pešikan (BIH), Nikola Bada Radonjić (MNE), Sandro Drinovac (BIH) and Ana Matić (MNE), selected 34 posters (28 authors) from 182 submitted works, which, together with the selected posters from the first round, will be displayed at the FLUID Design Forum (Cetinje, Montenegro, April 2025) and the POP-UP Design Festival (Sarajevo, BIH, May 2025). This exhibition of international importance is part of the project segment Thematic Exhibitions and is being implemented as part of the BLENDING project, which is supported by UNESCO within the framework of the Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans (CC4WBs) project, funded by the European Union with the aim of stimulating dialogue in the Western Balkans through the improvement of the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact. The student works were realized in the Poster course, under the mentorship of PhD Slavica Dragosavac, full prof, and PhD Jovana Nikolić, Assistant with a doctorate.

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Andjela Bučić and Mila Stojanović, third-year students and Luka Mitrović, fourth-year student from the Department of Applied Arts, were selected in a public competition for students of art faculties in Serbia to visually present Serbian folk sayings through personal artistic expression as part of the project Odvajkada.

After the exhibition Odvajkada, which was realized in December 2024, the digital monograph will be permanently available on the official website of the brand Bakina Tajna and the Ethnographic Museum.

(source: https://etnografskimuzej.rs/odvajkada/)

At the international solo singing competition in Russia “International Gorgeos Voices Festival” Russia ANO «Most Sodruzhestva», Vocal Competition Mezhdunarodne golosa, which was held from 20.12.2024. to 30.1.2025, students from the Department of Solo Singing of the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš participated and won the following prizes:

Iva Mladenović, soprano, I category, I prize – 94 points and

Luka Marković, tenor, II category, I prize – 96 points.

The students are in the class of MA prof. Katarina Simonović Ivanković

Piano collaboration: Staša Stamenković.

http://most-sodrujestva.ru/

Sofija Stajić, a master horn-student in the class of prof. MA Milan Stajić, won the laureate prize at the online competition for young artists Global Young Musicians Competition-Gdansk, Poland in H category as the only registered competitor from Serbia.

14-15.12.2024. XI International Solo Singer Competition “Artisti della Voce” was held in the Becklyev^,s Hall of the Music School“Isidor Bajić”, organized by the FloriArt New Music Vision association in Novi Sad.

Students from the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš also participated in the XI International Solo Singer Competition:

Iva Mladenović, soprano, I year student of OAS, III category – I prize (95 points) and

Luka Marković, tenor, IV year student of OAS, 4th category – I prize (93 points).

The students are in the class of Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, full professor of the Department of Solo Singing.

The piano accompaniment at the competition was by Staša Stamenković, MAS student in the class of Dragoslav Aćimović, MA, fullprofessor.

Friday, 13.12.2024. at  6 pm

The Faculty of Arts Concert-Exhibition Hall, Knjaževačka 2a

Program:

1. Brahms – Sonata for cello and piano no 1 in E-minor op.38
2. S. Bach – Prelude from B Suite for cello solo
3. Khudoyan – Sonata for cello solo op.22
4. Popper – Hungarian Rhapsody op. 68

On Tuesday, 3^rd December, a didactic exhibition was set up in the Faculty of Pedagogy Hall, which plays an important role in the development of contemporary concepts in art pedagogy. The exhibition provides an opportunity for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and has an affirmative effect on the professional development of teachers and educators. The material presented at the exhibition was created within the course Fundamentals of Visual Arts, Methods of Teaching Fine Arts 1 and 2, as well as Methods of Fine Arts 1 and 2, and the exhibition was also enriched with their works by students of the Faculty of Arts in Niš. Through practical work, the students explored various aspects of fine arts pedagogy, methods of fine arts education, theories of form and principles of composition, as well as the history of art and technology of fine arts techniques and materials. The exhibition was opened by Assoc. Prof. dr Nataša Gojković, and organized by Assoc. Prof. dr Milica Vojvodić Savić and Assist. Radmila Zečević. The exhibition will be open to visitors until 18^th December 2024.

9^th December 2024 at 6 pm,

Concert-Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, Knjaževacka 2a

Program: Brkljačić, Jovanović, Popović, Jug Marković, Andrić

This concert was financially supported by SOKOJ, the Cultural Grants Fund

The Faculty of Arts was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation of the Faculty of Music Arts of the University “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje on the occasion of the celebration of the 58^th anniversary of the existence and successful work of this important institution. The high recognition was received on behalf of the Faculty of Arts by the Dean, Prof. DMA Milena Injac, who was presented with the Certificate of Appreciation by the Dean of the FMA Skopje, Prof. MA Darija Andovska, who greeted the attendees and award winners with an appropriate speech. The event was also graced by the presence of the President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Mrs. Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, and was followed by an extraordinary concert of the FMA ensembles and soloists in the great hall of the Macedonian Philharmonic under the symbolic name “Flash”. We congratulate the FMA in Skopje, colleagues and students and look forward to new joint projects and cooperation