Sub-department of fine, puppetry and performing arts

Name and Surname

Goran Kujundžić, Ph.D. in Art

Title

Full Professor

e-mail

gkujundzic@foozos.hr
goran32@gmail.com

Room

35

Research interests

visual arts, drawing, ornament construction, geometric drawing, teaching methods in Arts

Earned a doctoral degree in 2014 fromthe Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (postgraduate doctoral programme on fine arts) with the dissertationVisualisation of the Permutation Principles Examined on the Ornamental Patterns from the Collection of Traditionally Used Textile Stored in Museum of Slavonia.

In 2003 was a graphic arts graduate at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of professor Miroslav Šutej.

Has authored and co-authored numerous exhibitions in Osijek, Zagreb, Vinkovci,Knin, Nova Gradiška etc; and abroad (Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania).

Has taught Visual Arts in a primary school, and has worked as a teacher of applied arts and design in a secondary school.

Publications

CROSBI Goran Kujundžić

Name and surname

Mira Perić, Ph.D. in Art

Title

Full Professor with tenure

e-mail

mperic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

27

Research interests

The art of drama, drama-in-education (DIE) and puppetry in education

Born 1/5/1961 in Tomašanci near Đakovo, Croatia. Graduated acting in 1984 at Academy of Dramatic Art at University of Zagreb. Played more than hundred important theatre roles and gained a status of principal drama artist. Besides acting, she also directs and writes drama. In 2013 she directed her own drama text Hana and Hana at Croatian National Theatre in Osijek. She played in TV dramas, soap operas, and was included in educational TV programme. In 2013 she celebrated 30 years of acting and got an award from Croatian Association of Actors for contribution to Croatian theatre and theatre arts. Since 1992 she teaches at Faculty of Education. She teaches Drama Education, Drama games, Puppetry, Puppetry games. She published a number of professional and scientific works. She is the author of a handbook Drama plays for preschool kids (2009), two poetry collections Cross-fade of theatre beauty (2009) and Ego Twilight (2012), four dramas in a book Women in Parts (2012), dramatization of Nazor's White deer (2012), monodrama Lioness's Revenge (2011), Reaching acting maturity(2018.).She is the head of Arts Department. She is a conductor of many projects, drama and puppetry workshops. She is a member of many theatre committees. She holds a number of letters of thanks, awards and honours (in 2009 she got a public honur Golden plaque „The City of Osijek Stamp“ for special achievements in theatre culture and education)...

List of publications (link to CROSBI)

1. Drama plays for preschool kids (2009)
2. Cross-fade of theatre beauty (2009)
3. Ego Twilight (2012)
4. Dramatization of Nazor's White deer (2012)
5. Lioness's Revenge (2011)
6. Women in Parts (2012)
7. Reaching acting maturty (2018)

Name and surname

Jelena Kovačević, Ph.D in Art

Profession

Assistant professor

e-mail

jelenakovacevic4982@gmail.com

Office number

59

Research interests

methodology of art education, art, art therapy

Jelena Kovačević was born in Osijek in 1982, where she attended elementary school and high school. In 2005 she graduated printmaking on Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, after which she mastered  printmaking on Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. In 2020 she obtained her Ph. D. in postgraduate doctoral study in painting, on Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb. Currently she is finishing postgraduate specialist study of art therapy, on Academy for Arts and Culture and Faculty of Medicine Osijek. She is an associate professor in Faculty of Education Osijek. She presented her work in many solo and group exhibitions.

List of publications (link to CROSBI)

CROSBI Jelena Kovačević

Name and surname

Marko Šošić, Ph.D. in Art

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

msosic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

35

Research interests

Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001.Became the Doctor of Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2015.Since 2001 he has been continuously engaged in pedagogical work, first as a teacher of visual arts at the Technical School in Vinkovci, then as a teacher of Graphic Design and Drawing and Painting at the School of Applied Art and Design Osijek, where he was a mentor of numerous student projects, aCounselor of the Interdistrict Committee for the Art Culture/Fine Art, a multi-year member of the State Art Competition Commission (LIK).In 2012 he waspromoted to an Educational Supervisor.

Since 2015, he has been employed at the Faculty of Education at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek and at the Campus Branch in Slavonski Brod, where he teaches Fine Arts, Artistic Techniques, Methodology of Visual Arts and Visual Communication and Design. He is a mentor of numerous student workshops, exhibitions and projects. In 2018 as a part of the Erasmus+programme, he was the visiting professor at the University of Edirne, Turkey.

He is the author of University textbook „Visual arts and fine arts techniques“.

He has had eighteen solo exhibitions and over thirty group exhibitions at home and abroad. He has designed graphically a number of editions of the School of Applied Arts and Design Osijek and the Faculty of Education. He is the Head of the Artistic Workshop of Children's Home Sv. Ana in Vinkovci and the member of HDLU Zagreb (since 2006).

www.markososic.com

List of publications (link to CROSBI)

CROSBI Marko Šošić

Name and surname

Ana Čolaković

Title

Assistant

e-mail

acolakovic@foozos.hr  

acolakovic.foozos@gmail.com  

Office number

35

Research interests

Fine arts, sculpture, painting, set and stage design

About the teacher

Ana Čolaković was born in 1993 in Vinkovci. In 2017, she graduated with a degree in sculpture under the mentorship of full professor Nikola Vučković at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar, obtaining the title of Master of Sculpture and Art Education Teacher. From the completion of her studies until 2024, she intermittently worked at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Osijek as a substitute teacher for professional subjects in the fields of drawing and painting, as well as sculptural and scenic-design shaping. Under her mentorship, fourteen students completed their secondary education.

She is the author of three permanently installed public sculptures (Široki Brijeg, Vienna, Posušje), has held six solo exhibitions, and participated in group exhibitions. She has also led art workshops, with a long-term collaboration with the Center for Community Services "St. Ana" in Vinkovci being particularly notable. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists in Zagreb, and since 2022, she has served as the president of SKICA, an association for promoting artistic awareness and creativity.

Since 2020, she has been advocating for the visibility of women artists through the juried exhibition project titled "ONE SU TU" (THEY ARE HERE). In 2024, she became employed as an assistant at the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she leads practical exercises in the courses Art Education (course holder: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Art. Jelena Kovačević), Visual Communication and Design (course holder: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Art. Marko Šošić), Integrated Preschool Curriculum III, and Art Education in the Integrated Curriculum (course holder: Prof. Dr. Art. Goran Kujundžić).