Heshtja

About the author

Blegina Hasko Bezo was born in Tirana, Albania. The time during which she grew up was too grey in both colors and happenings; today’s surviving buildings are a testimony of the past. Now a highly-evaluated artist among her peers and art critics, as indicated by the many exhibitions she has participated or organized in Albania and abroad. Blegina Hasko Bezo studied arts at the ‘Jordan Misja’ Art Lyceum and graduated from the Graphics Department of the University of Art in Tirana, Albania in 1998. In 2011, she completed the Master of Science studies in Painting-Graphics at the School of Fine Arts of University of Pristina, Kosovo. She earned the “Doctor of Science” title on Albanian southwestern coast ethnofolklore and ethnography in 2016. Blegina has opened and many personal painting exhibitions and has curated several art events and activities of her students. She has received various national and international awards and prizes for her art works. Her other artistic activities includes prize-winning costume design for several Albanian fiction movies, stage productions and television. In the domain of education, Blegina Bezo is quite active in arranging and organizing art exhibitions with her students, encouraging them to put their heart at work so as to enhance their skills and talents in art. She is a researcher of the Institute of Art Development and speaks Italian and English. Family-wise, Blegina Hasko Bezo is a devoted wife and mother of a girl, who is taking the first steps in the path of art by learning how to play violin.