Sharing the knowledge through workshops, teaching, and learning

 

Organizer, co-organizer of various workshops related to the historical techniques of bookbinding:

• 15th-century binding model by Sigitas Tamulis. A five-session workshop for prospective beginners in conservation. June 2020.

 

• Double French Headbands workshop by Rūta Taukinaitytė Narbutienė and the Bookbinders Guild of Vilnius, 15th June 2019, Vilnius.

 

• Text block edge marbling workshop by Aušra Lazauskienė and the Bookbinders Guild of Vilnius, 1st of June, 2019, Vilnius.

 

• Paper marbling workshop by Aušra Lazauskienė, 31st of May, 2019, Vilnius.

 

• Vellum binding workshop by Ieva Rusteikaitė and the Bookbinders Guild of Vilnius. Based on Anne Hillam and Maria Fredericks material for the course «Dirk de Bray and Beyond». 1st of December, 2018, Vilnius.

 

Given lectures and presentations

• Public lecture Between the Printer and the Reader: Historical Bindings of Books From Vilnius. Lithuanian National Library of Martynas Mažvydas, Vilnius, 30th November 2023.

 

• Classes on bookbinding history and historical decorated paper given as part of  the subject Arts of Book in Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2021 and 2022.

 

• Increasing knowledge. Bookbinding models and documentary heritage research in Archaeology of the bindings of books: introduction, opportunities and perspectives. A seminar for documental heritage professionals, Vilnius University Library, 2nd December 2019.

 

• Presentation From Craft to Conservation: Issues in Preservation of Book Bindings in Heritas 2019. International Fair of Cultural Heritage Education, Conservation and Technologies, section “Mastership. Three stories”, Vilnius, (3 May 2019).

 

• Presentation The Secret of Long-Lasting Books: a Short Intro to Ensure the Long Life of a Library in Heritas 2019. International Fair of Cultural Heritage Education, Conservation and Technologies, Vilnius (3 May 2019).

 

• Public lecture Decorated Paper: From the Luxury to the Banality, part of the series of public lectures Art of Books, organized by The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Bookbinders Guild of Vilnius  (21^st November 2017).

 

Tutorship

• Co-tutor for a practicum of students from Corvisart-Tolbiac lycée des Arts Graphiques et Arts du Livre (Paris) and the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Barcelona (Barcelona).