Elena Agosti

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ELENA AGOSTI

Email adress > elena.agosti.vi@gmail.com

Web page > https://www.well-made.it/ambasciatore/elena-agosti/

Areas of expertise: curator and organizer of cultural events, social media manager, organizer of training courses in the ceramic field and Ambassador of Crafts for the Cologni Foundation for Art Professions

Spoken languages: italian / english / french

Biography:

Always passionate about Art and Crafts, she began her professional career at the Museum Casabianca di Malo, a private collection of art graphics. Since 2008 she has worked at ViArt, the Vicenza Artistic Handicraft Exhibition Center and in 2011 she became its artistic director and spokesperson for the International Charter of Artistic Handicraft.

Since 2017 she has been working as a researcher for the Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice, focusing her attention on Venetian manufacturing and the enhancement of the Heritage. She coordinated the “CerTA, Ceramica Territorio Artigianato” project of the Liceo Artistico di Nove, directed a project to enhance the education of cultural, artistic and landscape heritage in the field of ceramics and now teaches History of Applied Arts and History of Ceramics for the Andrea Mantegna Restoration Center in Piazzola sul Brenta (PD).

She coordinates projects for the promotion of artistic craftsmanship for various trade associations, curating exhibitions and publications. She is the director of the International Competition of Contemporary Ceramics CeramicAppignano (MA) and will be president of the jury at the next Matres Festival in Cava dei Tirreni (SA) organized by the Pandora Artiste Ceramiste Association. She was curator of the Civic Museum of Ceramics in Nove (2017-2020), she collaborates with the organizer of the “Portoni Aperti” ceramics festival at the Nove Terra di Ceramica Association. You are the director of the Villa Lattes House Museum in Istrana (TV).