MFA Thesis – Graphic Ambassadors of a Country
historic overview of the previous designs of money in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 2011-2012

My thesis research focused on money and redesign of the Serbian national currency – the dinar. I consider banknotes and coins ambassadors of every country because on them one can read about a country’s culture, history, and nature. This thesis was made in collaboration with the National Bank of Serbia in Belgrade. Since I wanted to better understand the previous designs of money in Serbia and Yugoslavia, I also wrote a historic overview in collaboration with the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, the National Museum, Belgrade, the Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, the National Museum, Niš, Serbia, the Museum of Srem, Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, the National Museum, Požarevac, Serbia, the City Museum of Vršac, Vršac, Serbia, the Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, the Museum of Herzegovina, Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Museum of Kozara, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Regional Museum, Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Regional Museum, Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina. My thesis was exhibited at the Ohio University Art Gallery in Athens, Ohio in 2012. The more developed versions of the project were shown in 2013 at the Omega Gallery, Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, Tennessee, and at the Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, West Virginia in 2017.