Mgr. Jolana Lažová, Ph.D.

Jolana Lažová has been working at GHMP as an educator since September 2023. She conceives and implements educational activities relating to exhibitions in seven GHMP buildings and sculptures in public space for all target groups, with a focus on all types of schools. 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 with educational overlaps. She 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 Art, Craft and Technology Secondary School in Velké Opatovice (2008). She completed a one-year internship at the Contemporary Art Gallery CCA Andratx in Mallorca, Spain (2020) as well as a number of other international internships (Museum Ludwig, Köln; Queen Maud University College, Trondheim; Homerton College, Cambridge University, etc.) She worked as an educator at the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice. She taught for 5 years at the Art and Music school in Litovel and 2 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 their children’s think tank.