Elena Kamlyuk

In 2000 Elena Kamlyuk graduated from Vitebsk College of Arts with a degree of stage director of folk rites and holidays. She is a prize-winner of the international contest held in Vitebsk in 2000. Since 1996 Elena has been a member of Belarusian craftsmen’s union of popular arts. She participated in different international festivals in Hungary, Germany, Latvia, Estonia and in Slavianski Bazar in Vitebsk. Elena was a head of children’s art studio in Lepel House of Handicrafts. She is a weaver and specializes in weaving Belarusian folk belts. She has collected many interesting samples of belts that are exposed at the museum ethnographic gallery and helped to recreate a weaving machine. Since 2002 Elena has been working in our museum as a weaver. In the course of an excursion she provides visitors with the opportunity to help her and participate in the process of weaving.

Mrs. Kamlyuk is fond of cooking. She likes to collect ethnographic objects and admires nature.