A new exhibition has opened in the residential-commercial house from Pušalotas, which displays drawings by artist Kazė Zimblytė from ethnographic expeditions. K. Zimblytė (1933–1999) is a Lithuanian painter, textile artist, and one of the pioneers of abstractionism in Lithuania.
In the second half of the 20th century, students of humanities and art studies actively collected ethnographic material in all regions of Lithuania. K. Zimblytė, while studying at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1954–1959, studied national costume. While traveling through rural areas, she sketched the clothing of people from various regions of Lithuania, individual clothes, and described their purpose, dialect names, and technological features.
The exhibition features 25 previously unexhibited drawings of old village clothing, donated by collector Ramutis Petniūnas to the Ukmergė Vladas Šlaitas Public Library in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of artist K. Zimblytė.
The exhibition will be open until September 30.
