Mgr. Jolana Lažová, Ph.D.

Mgr. Jolana Lažová, PhD has been working at GHMP as an instructor since September 2023. She designs and implements educational activities for all target groups, with an emphasis on all types of schools, for exhibitions in seven GHMP buildings as well as for public sculptures. She specialises in ceramics, photography and digital technology. She completed her PhD studies in gallery pedagogy at Palacký University in Olomouc (2019). Her dissertation focused on the use of digital technologies in Czech museum and gallery education. She concentrated mainly on mobile applications in the form of digital guides, educational games and online presentations of collections for educational purposes. She also graduated in Teaching Fine Art for Secondary Schools and Art and Music Schools (2013, Palacký University) and in Art and Craft Processing of Ceramics at the Arts, Crafts and Technology Secondary School in Velké Opatovice (2008). She took a one-year internship at the Contemporary Art Gallery CCA Andratx in Mallorca, Spain (2020) and she completed several other international internships (Museum Ludwig, Köln; Queen Maud University College, Trondheim; Homerton College, Cambridge University, etc.). She worked as an instructor at the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice. She taught for five years at the Art and Music School in Litovel and for two years at the Art and Music School in Biskupská Street, Prague. Since 2016, she has been working with the Society for Creativity in Education as a consultant and mentor for a children’s think tank. She is a member of the Chamber of Educational Workers of the Council of Galleries of the Czech Republic, INSEA (International Society for Education through Art), Association of Art Teachers, uMĚNÍM Platform (Platform for Creative Learning) and European Platform on Image Education, which brings together educators from around 15 European countries from major galleries and museums focused on photography.