MIROSLAV ŽIVKOVIĆ, MA (1972) graduated in 1996 at the Faculty of Arts in Priština, where he finished his postgraduate studies in 1998. He has exhibited 67 times and collectively more than 300 times in the country and abroad. He has won several awards for painting and participated in more than 69 colonies in the country and abroad. He is the founder of the Art Colony of Divljane in Bela Palanka. As an associate of the National Museum of Niš, within the team of prof. Franc Curk and Mile Simić, he worked on a conservation of the movable monuments in the monastery Hilandar (1993-2002) in 15 campaigns per month. In the period 1992-1999, as an associate of the Regional Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage, he worked on a conservation and a restoration of the icons and frescoes in several monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija. He has been an associate of the National Library of Bela Palanka and a member of the redaction of the Proceedings of Bela Palanka.