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The medal of Professor Romualdas Inčirauskas of the Telšiai Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts won the award

At the end of December, Professor Romualdas Inčirauskas of the Faculty of Telšiai, Vilnius Academy of Arts, was awarded the medal “Chijune Sugichara” at the FIDEM exhibition in Japan.

VDA Telšiai Faculty 3rd year Metal Art and Jewelry students, supervised by prof. Romualdas Inčirauskas has been participating in an international medal project organized by Sebastian Mikolajchek, a professor at the University of Toruń, Poland, and Shinji Miyasaka, a professor at the Faculty of Art and Design at Tsukuba University in Japan.

The theme of this year's international medal project is "Transformations". The first virtual exhibition took place in June in Torun. Students of the Metal Art and Jewelry study program Jonė Bubinaitė, Viktorija Golikova, Emilija Odminytė, Lukas Juzumas, Lukas Tomkus and lecturer prof. Romualdas Inčirauskas. The exhibition FIDEM of this project was opened in November at the Oyama City Museum in Japan, where Professor Romualdas Inčirauskas and third-year students of the Metal Art and Jewelry study program participated: Deimantė Kiesutė, Emilija Odminytė, Lukas Tomkus and Lukas Juzumas.

A few days ago, it was announced that prof. Romualdas Inčirauskas' medal "Chijune Sugichara" at FIDEM exhibition in Japan. The medal is awarded to the Japanese diplomat Chijun Sugichara (1900-1986), who lived in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1939-1940. During World War II, they rescued about 6,000 Jews from Lithuania, Poland, and Germany by issuing them with Japanese transit visas. The medal is dedicated to [his] 120th birthday. The symbols on the reverse convey the tragedy of the Jewish nation. The reverse depicts the great Star of David, intertwined with the scenes of the Jewish sacrifices behind the barbed wire fence of the death camps, with the inscriptions, "6,000 lives," and a quote from Matthew 5: 6-10, ending with "Blessed are they which are persecuted." for righteousness, because they are the kingdom of heaven.

At the biennial Congress of the International Federation of Art Medals FIDEM Tokyo 2020/2021, two medalists were chosen to share the Mel Wacks Jewish Medal Art Award for the development of Judaism, the Bible or the Holy Land: Ewa Olsczwska-Borys from Poland and prof. Romualdas Inčirauskas from Lithuania. Each medalist will receive an engraved silver medal established by the Jewish and American Hall of Fame and will share a $ 250 cash prize from the Skirball Museum in Cincinnati. It exhibits a collection of medals from the Jewish and American Hall of Fame. M. Wacksas 1969 founded the Museum of Jewish and American Fame and has since held the position of its director.

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