73/6 K. Levytsky Street, Lviv, Ukraine

e-mail:  itm.lnam@gmail.com

Education:

Secondary school №75, Lviv, Ukraine, 1972-1982

Lviv Children Artistic School under the leadership of the Union of Artists, 1972-1982

Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, the Chair of Decorative Ceramics, 1982-1989

PhD(Candidate of Science), Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, 1992

Concentrations: Art Criticism, History of Art

Dissertation: "Ceramics Art Industrial in Ukraine on the End 19 th – Middle of 20 th centuries”.

PhD, Specialized Research Council for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations at Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA), 2006

Concentrations: Art Criticism, Art Education in Ukraine

Dissertation: "Art Education in Ukraine in the Middle of 19^th – Middle of 20^th Centuries. Structure, Methodology and Artistic Positions".

Experience:

Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, now Lviv National Academy of Arts, 1992 – 2010. An artist, PhD, professor, dean of History and Theory of Art department at Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA), Lviv, Ukraine.

Main directions of research and courses of lectures:

- history, theory and methods of art education;

- foreign and domestic history of decorative and applied art (ceramics, metal, blacksmiths, jewellery, glass)

- history of fine arts in the East (India, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Islamic World).

Presentations:

Head and member of jury, many Ukrainian and international symposiums, scientific conferences in particular in Lviv (1988 - 2010), Moscow (1992), Chech Republic, Helfshtyn («Hefaiston», 1996) Opishne (1999, 2000, 2001), Slov'yansk (2001), Ibbzitz, Austria («Ferraculum», 2000, 2002), Stalova Volya, Poland (2006)

Organizer of many art exhibitions in Lviv, Kyiv, Ukraine; Cleveland, Toledo, USA (1998); Surgut, Russia (2010)

Member of Board of Union of the Art Critics and Historians in Lviv (SKIM).

Member of The Specialized Research Councils at Lviv National Academy of Arts and Kyiv National Academy of Arts and Architecture.

Leading researcher of the research-experimental sector at Lviv National Academy of Arts, research supervisor and co-author of 4 researches. Under my research supervision 7 post-graduates defended their dissertations and got the degree of Candidates (PhD)

Producer and presenter of TV Art Program «Malyovyd» on Lviv State TV (made 50 programs), 1995 – 2000.

Main video TV-program (producer and presenter R. Shmagalo)

• The history of Lviv architectural forged metal

• Hersones (1, 2 series)

• Ceramics and pottery symposiums in Opishne

Poltava region (1998, 1999, 2000), (1,2, 3series)

• Hefaiston- 1996 (International Symposium of blacksmiths)

• Ferracullum- 1998 (International Symposium of blacksmiths)

• Batyskaf, Odessa- 1996, 1997 (International Symposium of Modern art)

• Ecological Perspective (1998-2007) (International Symposium of Textile in Carpathian region)

Publications:

The total number of publications is over 150, among them there are 4 monographs.

Monographs:

1. At the Crossroad to Europe and the world. Ivan Mozalevsky./ Lviv, 1996 .

2. Beetween East and West. Ceramics in Galicia in the context of international relations. / Lviv, 1994.-120 p.

3. Dictionary of the Ukrainian artist-pedagogues lived both in Ukraine and abroad 1850-1950./Lviv, 2000. (563 names)/

4. Art Education in Ukraine in the Middle of 19^th -- middle of 20^th centuries / Lviv, 2005.- 528 p., 742 il.

Some articles:

1. Ukrainian Folk Ceramics ( The problems of accumulations and development of traditions)/Moscow, 1990

2. Major tendencies in the ceramics schools activity in the left-bank Ukraine in the late 19^tt - early 20^th centuries / Moscow, 1991, 15 p.

3. The history of development of Kamianets-Podilsky industrial art school / Moscow, 1991

4. Formation of complex systems for the support of pottery in Ukraine in the late 19^th - early 20^th centuries / Moscow, 1992

5. Influence of Hutsul ceramics on artistic peculiarities of pottery crafts in the Eastern Ukraine in the early 20^th century/ Chernivtski, 1993

6. Creative imperatives of Kamianets-Podilsky industrial art school and its integration
   into the European ceramics / Chmelnytsky, 1993

7. Avantguarde and Ukrainian ceramics : tangent and parallel lines / Lviv, 1994

8. Sacral function in Ukrainian ceramics in 19^th - early 20^th century / Lviv, 1994

9. Artistic ceramics schooling in the Western Ukraine in the late 19^th - early 20^th centuries - the problems of international relations./ Lviv, 1994

10. Artistic and industrial education in Galicia in the context of the European relations (19^th - early 20^th centuries) / Kyiv, 1994

11. The first in Ukraine (history of development of Kolomya pottery school) / Lviv, 1991

12. Volodyslav Fedorovych and cultural development of Galicia in the late 19^th early 20^th centuries / Lviv, 1995

13. Destroyed Pottery Crafts in Ukraine / Kyiv, 1995

14. Crafts- and art-education in Galicia in international relations/ Ukraine in the context of international relations/ Lviv, 1996

15. Days and nights of Lviv gates./ Art smithing./ V Hefaiston 96, Helfstyn, 1997

16. Professional Ukrainian Ceramics at the exhibitions in the late 19^th - early 20^th centuries/Lviv, 1992

17. Crafts- and art education in Galicia at the turn of the century / Lviv, 1995

18. Hefaiston : Moravia and Galicia / Lviv, 1997

19. Academy and its students / Lviv, 1997

20. Mural painting of Ihor Mykula (Painter and his time) / Kyiv, 1997

21. Gardeners of iron flgwers / Art smithing / Kyiv, 1997

22. The development of Lviv art criticism school in the XXIst century. /Visnyk LNAAIV/ Special issues dedicated to 10^th -anniversary since the foundation of faculty of history and theory of art LNAA/Lviv, 2007.-p. 5-24.

23. The criticism of art culture: present days and perspectives/ Art Studies'09 founded by the Union of Critics and Art Historians of Art.- Lviv, 2009.- p. 11-12; 47-53

Grants:

Grant from Getty Institute Fundation, California, USA, 1996

Grant from American Council of Learned Societies, (ACLS) New York, USA, 2002

Awards and Honors:

The medal of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "For Research Achievements", 2007