
PhD, senior researcher
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8804-9911
e-mail: lijana.sn@gmail.com
In 1982, she graduated from the Lithuanian State Institute of Arts (now Vilnius Academy of Arts, hereafter –VAA), the Art History and Theory Department. In 1994, she gained her doctoral thesis with a theme “Development of Lithuanian Textile Art and its Artistic Characteristics (20th c.)”. From 1982 to 1990 she was a junior researcher at the Institute of History of the Lithuanian Academy of Science, 1990–2002 – a researcher at the Culture and Arts Institute (1996–1999 – a head of the Art History Department). From 1997 to 2003 she was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Textiles of the VAA. From 2002 to 2010, she was a senior researcher at the Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute (2010 renamed to Lithuanian Culture Research Institute), still is working there. Her fields of scholarly interests are concerned on modern and contemporary Lithuanian and Western European decorative arts and design as well as a history of fine crafts focusing on the social aspects, and the relationship between tradition and modernity.
Selected publications
Monographs, studies
Vladislovas Daujotas: tekstilininko archyvas / Textile Artistʼs Archive, Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2024. ISBN 978-609-447-406-4.
Salvinija Giedrimienė. Kelias / Way, Vilnius: Lietuvos dailininkų sąjunga, Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Artists Association, Lithuanian Art Museum, 2019. ISBN 978-609-95312-8-1.
Ramutė Aleksandra Jasudytė [Ramutė Aleksandra Jasudytė], Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus / National Museum of Lithuania, 2011. ISBN 978-609-803-91-60.
Juozas Balčikonis [Juozas Balčikonis], Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2007. ISBN 978-9955-624-58-5.
Antanas Tamošaitis. Gyvenimo ir kūrybos kelias [Antanas Tamošaitis. An Outline of his Life and Creative Work], Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2003. ISBN 9986-571-93-6.
Edited publications
Lietuvos dailininkų žodynas = Dictionary of Lithuanian artists, vol. 3: 1918–1944, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas / Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, 2013. ISBN 978-9955-868-63-7.
Articles
Linijos ir ataudai: pokario lietuvių tekstilę gelbėjęs Viktoro Petravičiaus ugdymo metodas [Lines and wefts: Viktoras Petravičiusʼs teaching method that revitalized Post-War Lithuanian textile art], Ingrida Korsakaitė (1938–2024): „Įdomiausia man yra grafika“, G. Jankevičiūtė, L. Laučkaitė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, Lietuvos dailės istorikų draugija, 2025, 199–228.
Puoselėti tautodailę buvo sąmoningas jo pasirinkimas [Fostering folk art as a conscious choice], Antano Tamošaičio lietuvių liaudies meno kolekcija. XVIII a. pabaiga–XX a. I pusė, katalogas, M. Lebednykaitė (ed.), Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2025, 52–64.
Agne Šemberaite, New Ceramics. The International Ceramics Magazine (Germany), 2025 no. 4, 8–11.
Giving a Sense to Identity: The Role of Ethnic Design in State Ideology, Leida: Stubborn Compromises in Production, 2024, issue 5, T. Jerley (ed.), Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Arts. https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/stubborn-compromises-in-production/giving-sense-to-identity-the-role-of-ethnic-design-in-state-ideology
Mažosios istorijos: dar kartą apie taikomosios dailės ugdymą tarpukario Lietuvoje [Small stories: once again about the education of applied arts in interwar Lithuania], Menas moderniai šaliai moderniame mieste, A. Andriulytė, K. Jakaitė, R. Simanaitienė (ed.), Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 112, 2024, 166–196. DOI: 10.37522/aaav.112.2024.201
Rankdarbystė tarpukario Lietuvoje: pomėgis, verslas, tapatybės įtvirtinimas [Handicraft in interwar Lithuania: hobby, business, consolidation of identity], Moterų istorijos eskizai: XIX a. antra pusė–XX a. pirma pusė, B. Avižinienė ir R. Bleizgienė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 124–147.
Platus akiratis, gilus mąstymas, daugiašakė profesinė veikla [Broad horizons, deep thinking, versatile professional activities], Vaizdas ir daiktas: ištakos, funkcijos, pėdsakai, G. Mickūnaitė (ed.), Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 110/111, 2023, 21–52. https://aaav.vda.lt/journal /article/view/168/194 DOI: 10.37522/aaav.110-111.2023.168
Suderinti (ne)suderinamą: tapatumo paieškos ankstyvajame sovietiniame tekstilės dizaine („Kauno audinių“ atvejis) [To Match (Un)mtchable: The Search for Identity in Early Soviet textile Design (The Case of Kauno audiniai)], Dizaino procesai / Design processes, K. Jakaitė (ed.), Acta academiae artium vilnensis, vol. 103, 2021, 17–56. https://aaav.vda.lt/journal/article/view/aaav103nataleviciene
Daiktų istorijos. Lietuvos dizainas 1918–2018 / Stories of things. Lithuanian design 1918–2018, [Lijana Natalevičienė – co-author of texts], parodos katalogas / exibition catalogue, K. Jakaitė, G. Jankevičiūtė et. al. (ed.), Vilnius, Lietuvos dailės muziejus, 2018, 54–61, 64–65, 78–79, 82–83, 88–89, 114–115.
Atkurtos Lietuvos šimtmečio žingsniai ataidi taikomojoje dailėje ir dizaine / Echoes of the centennial of the restoration of the state in applied art and design [Introduction], Lietuvos taikomoji dailė ir dizainas 1918–2018 / Lithuanian Applied Arts and Design 1918–2018, katalogas / catalogue, J. Meilūnienė (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos dailės muziejus, 2018, 11–57, 59–60, 71–72.
Tarp praeities ir ateities: tradicijos ir naujovės tarpukario Lietuvos dailiųjų amatų edukacijos sistemoje [Between the past and the future: traditions and innovations in the inter-war Lithuanian fine crafts education system], Vakarykščio pasaulio atgarsiai, M. Matulytė, R. Juzefovičius, R. Budrys (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos dailės muziejus, Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2018, 184–195.
Modernizmo lūžio kartos atstovė [Representative of the generation of turning point of modernism], Marija (Marijona) Rinkevičiūtė-Žilevičienė – tapatybės paieškos mene ir dizaine [Marija (Marijona) Rinkevičiūtė-Žilevičienė – search for identity in art and design], E. G. Bogdanienė (ed.), Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2018, 65–138.
Juris Bergins: Creative work as a search for identity, Ceramics Art and Perception (Australia), vol. 107, 2018, 76–81. https://www.aic-iac.org/wp-content/uploads/Ceramics-ArtPerception-No.107-2018-1.pdf
Der Zug nach Paris: Das Bild von Litauen im Ausland, Fortsetzung folgt: Im Zuge der Moderne. Ein Jahrhundert Litauen (1918–2018), G. Jankevičiūtė, N. Šepetys (ed.), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, 49–57.
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