At VI International competition of solo singers Sirmium Music Fest (27-30.04.2022) in Sremska Mitrovica, Andjela Antić, a fourth-year student of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, in the class of Assoc. prof. MA Katarina Simonović Ivanković, won the first prize (96.3 points) in category IV. Congratulations!

Olga Arsić, a second-year student of the undergraduate studies at the Department of Fine Arts, was given a Commendation by the jury of XXI Biennial of Student Graphics of Serbia in Belgrade, on 21^st May 2022. The setting of the Biennale consists of works by undergraduate and master students from all six state faculties and the Academy of Arts.

The exhibition of graphics of XXI Biennale was opened in the Grand Gallery of the Student City Cultural Center in Belgrade and will last until 4^th June 2022.

At the just held International Competition of Solo Singers ” Тhе Heart of Serbia” in Kragujevac from 20^th to 22^nd May 2022, students of solo singing class: of Katarina Sinonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor and Saša Arsenkov, MA, Assistant professor, with piano accompaniment by Jelena Deljanin Aleksić, won a total of 10 awards:

Category I

Andjela Nedeljkovic – I prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Luka Marković – II prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Nikola Stamenković – I prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Category II

Milana Andrašević – II-1 prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Andjela Mladenović – II-2 prize

class: Saša Arsenkov, MA, Assistant professor

Category III

Jelena Jovanović – I prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Nena Djurić – I-2 prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Andjela Antić – III prize

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Category IV

Lazar Lazarević – I prize

and a special award for performances by Serbian authors

class: Katarina Simonović Ivanković, MA, Associate professor

Category Va

Katarina Mihailović – II prize

class: Saša Arsenkov, MA, Assistant professor

After signing the Protocol on Cooperation on 14^th February 2022, which was signed for the Faculty of Arts in Niš, by prof. PhD Milena Injac, Dean of the Faculty, and for the Local Ombudsman Office by Katarina Mitrovski, Local Ombudsman of the City of Niš, whose goal is to create a trademark of the Office, a graphic symbol as a visual feature of the Office – a competition was held with interested students. . A commission for the selection of the best designed trademark of the Local Ombudsman Office of the City of Niš has been formed, consisting of: Katarina Mitrovski – Local Ombudsman of the City of Nis, Slavica Dragosavac, PhD full professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš for the field of art – Graphic Design, Anita Milić, Associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš for the field of art – Graphic Design, Sanja Dević, Associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš – Graphic design, and Dragana Stojanović, Head of the Department in the Local Ombudsman Office of the City of Niš. The session of the Commission for the selection of the best designed trademark of the Local Ombudsman Office was held on 28^th March 2022, in the premises of the the Local Ombudsman Office, where the work with the highest number of points was chosen and the right to be a trademark of the Local Ombudsman Office, while the next five works with the highest number of points will be displayed in the premises of the Local Ombudsman Office. The Local Ombudsman handed over a Commendation to prof. PhD Milena Injac, Dean of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, for the support and successful cooperation in the implementation of the competition for the selection of the trademark of the Local Ombudsman Office.

Dear fans of classical notes, dear colleagues and students, enjoy the program of our and your concert season this May as usual, since music unites us!

The collective exhibition of works by students of the Faculty of Arts Department of Applied Arts in Niš entitled “Visual Rhetoric to Identity II” in the Happy Gallery of the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade was opened from 19^th to 30^th May 2022.

This exhibition, also an annual review of the most successful work of students of III and IV year of undergraduate academic studies, study program for Graphic Design, at the course of Graphic Communication, as the primary thematic settings of this project brings works by 20 students, namely: Ana Milenković, Jana Janić, Jovana Milojević, Marta Pejčić, Minja Djordjević, Nadežda Ristić, Sara Stojanović, Aleksandra Stanković, Andrijana Stanković, Kristina Djurdjević, Marko Tomić, Mila Teokarević, Paulina Aleksić, Sara Popović, Teodora Nikolić, Helena Milošević, Vasilije Injac, Jovana Djordjević, Mina Živić and Nebojša Stojković.

The course of Graphic Communication is being studied under the mentorship of Assoc. prof. Anita Milić and assistant DA Miljana Radenković at the Department of Applied Arts of the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš.

Valentina Stanojević, a student at the master’s studies in flute in the class of prof. Miomir Simonović, won I Laureate at international online competition “Prometeus” in Italy. Congratulations!

Students in the class of full prof. Ana Veličković-Igić held the 16^th traditional concert of chamber music.

Seven chamber ensembles performed in the full Niš Symphony Orchestra hall, and the program included works by Suk, Schober, Blanjini, Valkyrie, Schumann, Saint-Saens. The premiere composition “Dancing partners” for two flutes, by the English composer J.V. Barker was performed.

On 9^th May 2022, Katarina Mitrovski, the City of Niš local Ombudsman awarded a Commendation to the Faculty of Arts in Niš for the support and successful cooperation in the realization of the public call for choosing the sign and logo best conceptual design of the Local Ombudsman of Niš Office.

The Faculty of Arts in Niš, within the Erasmus+ teacher mobility, is organizing a presentation and workshop by prof. PhD Bisera Valeva, professor at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, at the Faculty of Educational Studies and Arts in Bulgaria.

The presentation and workshop “Signs by the Road” will be held on Thursday, 5^th May 2022 at 5 pm, in the premises of the Faculty of Arts at the Art School, st. Prvomajska no 6.